Is Your Tifilah Being Counted In Heaven?
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0:06When it comes to tefillah, many people go to pray. Many people, Baruch Hashem, go to pray. Some people pray at home, some people pray, you know, with the beit knesset. But if we were our own judge, let's put aside, set aside what they think about us in Shamayim, if our prayer, b'chlal, is even counted, the way we pray sometimes. If we were our own judge, we, mamash, looked at our own prayer.
1:07If we were our own judge for our prayers, I'm talking to myself, sometimes I don't even know why Hashem even allows us to pray. Sometimes our prayers are so terrible. The way we're supposed to pray versus the way we pray, Hashem Yirachem. Sometimes I see people in Beit Knesset, and I ask myself, why do you come? The whole time, you haven't even opened the book. Just this Friday, I went to a new big Beit Knesset, and I looked around. I tried not to look around, but sometimes you finish a little bit before everybody else, or some other people, so you're just there waiting, waiting, waiting. You're not supposed to ever look behind you because it can make the person behind you feel bad if he hasn't finished. So you're just waiting, but sometimes there are people next to you, on the right, on the left, and you can't help but look at them. I'm waiting, and I see this kid the whole time. He's walking around the whole time. He's walking as he does. He's maybe 15 years old, not like a little baby. So, as he does, he's walking around. He's waiting for somebody to finish so he could talk to him. And I asked myself, why did you come? Why did you come? I can't say anything because I don't know the guy, and I'm waiting for a better moment than before.
2:26The reality is I see some people, all they do the whole time is talk to each other. The guy, the Chazan, is saying Kaddish to sanctify Hashem's name, and they're talking. It's like you invited Hashem to your house and you say, "Hashem, one second, when I finish with him, I'll get to you." What are you doing with him? Are you finishing something important? No, no, I just want to ask him how he's doing, see maybe he knows the score of who won the last baseball game. And then I want his opinion about the stock market and what he really thinks about the wall Donald Trump wants to build. After I finish that, Hashem, I'll get to You. Yeah, but do you realize everybody else is talking about Me? They're all sanctifying My name. Yeah, yeah, let them do what they want. I'll get to You in a second, Hashem. I'm busy. That's what talking during Kaddish is; it's the biggest bizayon you can possibly do. It's better a person doesn't come to the world than talk during the middle of Kaddish. The Melech Malchei HaMelachim, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you just, everyone, just the whole Kehillah, just invited the Shechinah to come to the Beit Knesset, and you're busy talking to somebody else. There's no bigger Bizayon than that. How many Batei Knesset do you know where people don't talk to everybody? I ask myself, why do you come? It's better off you never came. It's better off you don't even pray.
3:51At least she didn't sin. So tefillah, we need to work on it.
