Prayer Affects You"Or, there’s a marvelous quotation from the Book of Deuteronomy which is found in almost all Jewish congregational worship services: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might,’ and so on. It goes on for several paragraphs. Well, are we really saying, ‘God, we want you to love yourself with all your heart... ?‘ What we are saying aloud to God is something we’re trying to remind ourselves to be doing! "So, those are illustrations of typical prayers. Even the Hebrew word for ‘pray’ is a reflexive verb. A reflexive verb is a verb that acts upon the actor. The verb ‘pray’ says you pray and somehow it comes back and affects you. That’s the notion of Hebrew prayer. So, prayer is as much directed to us as we direct it to God." |
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