Shemona Esrai: The Whispered Prayer of Total Submission
Lessons in Likutay Torah | January 08, 2025
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Shemona Esrai: The Whispered Prayer of Total Submission

Lessons in Likutay Torah | June 27, 2025

This is why “the Prayer” of Shemona Esrai is recited quietly in a whisper, since it is a connection to Hashem as He “Encompasses all Worlds,” above and beyond the limitations of Hishtalshelus (the spiritual hierarchy of the worlds of Beriah, Yetzirah, and Asiyah),

And it is not at all in the category of a Light that can be drawn down and given over below into revelation in the created worlds, and one cannot connect to Hashem on that level in any manner of love, one can only connect to Hashem on that level with absolute submission and negation of ego.

This is the idea of a person actually giving over himself over to his Father in Heaven, so that he literally feels like absolutely nothing (having his own independent significance before Hashem), and this is what the idea of bowing in Shemona Esrai expresses, it is like one who bows before their king, that he completely humbles himself before his king.

However, for this level of ‘ַׁהָּדוהְי-Yehuda,’ which is ‘הו דָּ אָּה-humble submission and gratitude,’ to be directly experienced in a manner of “א ת ָּהַׁ-you,”

This is why “the Prayer” of Shemona Esrai is recited quietly in a whisper, since it is a connection to Hashem as He “Encompasses all Worlds,” above and beyond the limitations of Hishtalshelus (the spiritual hierarchy of the worlds of Beriah, Yetzirah, and Asiyah),

And it is not at all in the category of a Light that can be drawn down and given over below into revelation in the created worlds, and one cannot connect to Hashem on that level in any manner of love, one can only connect to Hashem on that level with absolute submission and negation of ego.

This is the idea of a person actually giving over himself over to his Father in Heaven, so that he literally feels like absolutely nothing (having his own independent significance before Hashem), and this is what the idea of bowing in Shemona Esrai expresses, it is like one who bows before their king, that he completely humbles himself before his king.

However, for this level of ‘ַׁהָּדוהְי-Yehuda,’ which is ‘הו דָּ אָּה-humble submission and gratitude,’ to be directly experienced in a manner of “א ת ָּהַׁ-you,”

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