Weekly Tefilah Focus

Opportune Timing

There are times of the year that are special times of favor before Hashem. During these times, we have greater opportunity to have our tefilos answered. Perhaps the most powerful examples are Yom Kippur, The Ten Days of T’shuvah (Aseres Y’mei T’shuvah), and Purim.

Raising Our Tefilos and Brachos to Rumo Shel Olam

In the previous segment, we discussed the great potential impact of thinking “Adon HaKol (Master of all),” as we recite the Name of Hashem, over 1,000 times weekly – recognizing and internalizing that Hashem controls every minute detail of world events, as well as events in our individual personal lives, AND that He created the world to bestow kindness.

Recapture Your Lost Tefilos with Just Ten Words

Yihyu l’ratzon imrei fi, v’hegyon libi l’fanecha, Hashem tzuri v’goali

Transform Your Tefilos, Your Brachos, And Your Life

I would like to begin this segment with excerpts of three letters that were written by different individuals (numerous letters were received by the family) to the family of Rav Mordechai Dovid Kokis zt”l after his p’tirah at a young age.  He was niftar on 15 Kislev 5780.  (I am writing this segment on his actual fourth yahrzeit.)

A Request for the Ultimate Understanding

[original segment: Shemoneh Esrei 64]

While all tefilah and T’hilim are sorely needed and crucially important at the current time, our daily Shemoneh Esrei has at least two powerful advantages.