Rav Yissocher Frand once said, “I know a businessman who is very successful and does multi-million-dollar deals. He has a policy. If you are talking to him and there is a pause in the conversation, and you check your cell phone, no matter how lucrative that deal is for him, the deal is over. Deal off.
He says, ‘If you don’t have the courtesy to respect me and give me your full attention, I’m not interested in doing business with you.’”
Rav Frand said, “I wonder if Hashem has the same policy. We Daven to Hashem. We want Parnasah, we want Gezunt, health, we want Shidduchim, we want Nachas. Hashem says, ‘If you look at your cell phone while you are Davening to Me, I’m sorry, no deal!’
Chazal tell us that people are greatly influenced by the way we act. If we act the part, and we act as though we are standing before Hashem, the Melech Malchei HaMalachim, the King of kings, HaKadosh Boruch Hu, my hunch is that it may actually improve our Kavanah when we Daven!”
Reprinted from the Parshas Chukas 5785 email of Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg’s Torah U’Tefilah.
