Question: L’chavod HaRav HaGaon, V’chulai, Shlita What advice is there, if, after davening properly with full meaning, that I'm just so used to davening that way, that I don't do it with the full meaning anymore? Any advice will be appreciated. From a Talmid in London. Thanks so much for all the shiurim.
Answer: Now, that is a very valid point! Go to a different shul. Or before davening, daven in English. It will give you new meaning. I remember a certain T’kufa (time), when I was busy thanking in English. When I got up to Modim, it was a different Modim! Because I was in the mode of REAL Modim. That might do you well, to help put Neshama into your davening. Daven in a different place, or get a Sefer on Tefila, and daven that your davening should improve. In the worst of the worst, believe me, you have a lot of company. My Rebbe told me this once. He said: Expect these things to happen in your life; when the davening fizzles out, and you're not what you used to be. Or become a Stoliner, which is a very advisable thing, if you really want to daven right. They're good at it. Maybe there's some other place that knows how to daven, or that gives a certain Bren that will wake you up. I know someone who had trouble with his kids; they didn’t daven, until he started davening in Stolin. Now they daven. Because Stoliners are better at it. They know what they're doing with Tefila. And they're Lebedik, that’s all.
