It is much easier to write a book about prayer, defining what is prayer, and to spend a full year working of explaining the fine points of prayer, contrasting the value of prayer vs. Torah study, than it is to actually pray. Ask such an author how much time he spent writing the book, and how much time he actually prayed to God that he should succeed in writing the book...
A brilliant person can author such a book, but a more simple person would respond that after reading all these lofty ideas, do you know what really inspires me? The simplest things. Rabbi Shmuel of Knon said that after studying all the Kabbalistic intentions of prayer, he decided to pray like a child, with no intentions other than that he was speaking to God. All I can offer with prayer is my own two cents, but you God know that my disfigured prayer is what I can do, it is my handiwork for you....
א"ב יתרו
A brilliant person can author such a book, but a more simple person would respond that after reading all these lofty ideas, do you know what really inspires me? The simplest things. Rabbi Shmuel of Knon said that after studying all the Kabbalistic intentions of prayer, he decided to pray like a child, with no intentions other than that he was speaking to God. All I can offer with prayer is my own two cents, but you God know that my disfigured prayer is what I can do, it is my handiwork for you....
א"ב יתרו
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