Commentary of the RaNZeBaB (Rav Natah Ze'ev ben Binyamin-HSLABW) alternatively known as the RaNZaF (Rav Natah Ze'ev Fleischmann) (or by the name of the Sefer I hope to - please G-d - one day write - Nita'ei Binyamin):
The prevous post's haiku came to me during Hoshanot. It's one of those prayers, like Anim Zemirot, yagdal, and Adon Olam that communicte such essential, but are said under pressure as davening winds down. Seems ironic. On the other hand, I thonk there may be a deep statement being made by the incongruty between the words and the rush - something about how natual these fundamentals are to us.
Rav Aryeh Kaplan marshals the theory that prayer was once and was meant to be a meditative experience. Makes sense.
Re; Miriam's comment on the last post - yes, we say the same things many times without feeling and that somehow builds up so that eventually we hit it right. If we'd wait to be inspired, without making the effort even when uninspired, it's possible that inspiration would never arrive.
Commentary of the RaNZeBaB (Rav Natah Ze'ev ben Binyamin-HSLABW) alternatively known as the RaNZaF (Rav Natah Ze'ev Fleischmann) (or by the name of the Sefer I hope to - please G-d - one day write - Nita'ei Binyamin):
ReplyDeleteThe prevous post's haiku came to me during Hoshanot. It's one of those prayers, like Anim Zemirot, yagdal, and Adon Olam that communicte such essential, but are said under pressure as davening winds down. Seems ironic. On the other hand, I thonk there may be a deep statement being made by the incongruty between the words and the rush - something about how natual these fundamentals are to us.
Rav Aryeh Kaplan marshals the theory that prayer was once and was meant to be a meditative experience. Makes sense.
Re; Miriam's comment on the last post - yes, we say the same things many times without feeling and that somehow builds up so that eventually we hit it right. If we'd wait to be inspired, without making the effort even when uninspired, it's possible that inspiration would never arrive.