Why we daven

Besides understanding the history and etymology of the word Davening, this lesson reminds us to reflect upon something much more significant. It reminds us that every time we open our prayer books, our hearts and our lips in prayer we are launching the same prayers that our ancestors bequeathed to us from years ago. The Talmud is straightforward in its conclusion that our prayers were designed by the Patriarchs and mirror the different major sacrifices that went on each day in the Holy Temple.

Many of us treasure a family heirloom i. The Maharitz Chayis explains that this applies to tefillah as well; we do not daven because our avos did, but rather because we were commanded to do so thereafter. Scan this QR code to visit this page online:. This advertisement will close in seconds Or click here to close it.

Sunday, November 14, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. The Jewish Press — JewishPress. Israel News Talk Radio. Bring Them Home. I looked in a Question that looked like my question "Why do we Daven" but when I read all the answers I did not find an answer to my question all I found was: "He has commanded us to pray for our own benefit entirely.

See Sefer HaChinuch for some ideas on the topic. Can you clarify the emphasis on your question? Do you want to know why we daven at all, or why do we do it 3 times per day? Sorry if I did not make it clear enough. The question is "why we daven at all" — user Related: judaism. Show 8 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. In response to edited form of question: This would still require performing the act of davening, just like in any Mitzvah with a given purpose, you still have to do the action.

Improve this answer. So according to your logic if you have a mindset of what you need and that it is in Hashem's will when and how he is going to give it if he does. Another Problem with most of these answers are that if you do not know the Perush Hamilos then it is pointless to daven everyone knows that you should know the meaning of the words of davening but it is not a chiyuv and your davening is still good and same vice versa if you don't say the words and only think the words and there meaning you have not fuffilled the chiyuv so it makes you wonder the main point of davening is in the words — user Personally, other than the required parts of the davening such as Shma, Shmoneh Esreh , it would be more effective for people to say less and understand and mean what they say rather than go through the motions and mumble words that are there.

When my kids mumble a bracha on food that's davening! My point was that it seems that the point of davening is more saying the words then thinking the words and the proof of that like I said above is because davening is not accepted if you only think the words but it is accepted if you only say the words and not think the meaning of them so even though I agree thinking the words are important but we see from this that saying the words is more important and with that why should we just say words what is the point of that?

Hirsch in Horeb. Also in R. And in the future, it is courteous to let an answer poster know when you alter the question in such a way that their answer no longer is complete. Show 3 more comments. Welcome to Mi Yodeya, where we value sourced answers. How does it answer it? Add a comment. How does any of this answer the question which is why thought is insufficient, yet he assumes empty words are sufficient?

Yishai Yishai Note that only according to the Rambam is it a chiyuv min hatorah to daven everyday and I am pretty sure according to the Meiri and the Ramban it is not I have to double check everything but I will do that later — user According to Rabbi Nissan Mindel's answer lichora it does not make sense because if the main point of davening was that: "we are establishing to ourselves that G-d is in charge of the outcome" then as I explained before and in my original question.

It should be based on the thought on the words and not the actual words because thinking the words make you think that hashem is in charge of the outcome but just saying the words that does not fulfill that concept — user The Rambam is unique in holding it is every day.

Show 6 more comments. Dude Dude 4, 9 9 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. What is a "real need"? What does it mean if God is "infinitely vulnerable"?! Think about each of these components - what is the point of saying them? Like any library, Mi Yodeya offers tons of great information, but does not offer personalized, professional advice , and does not take the place of seeking such advice from your rabbi.

Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Mi Yodeya works best with JavaScript enabled. We are intimate with Him, we are in His company and we are certain of His sympathy; we even call Him in our prayers, Father, as in our Avinu Malkeinu. Prayer is a gift that allows lowly mortal man the ability to communicate with the Creator of the universe who is unknowable, incomprehensible and infinite.

If I were to ask you, what do you call yourself? Some of you might say you are a religious Jew, or you might say you are an Orthodox Jew, or you are Shomer Shabbos; but how many of you would answer you are an eved Hashem, a servant of God?