Hey You: Jews, Prayer, and the Audacity of Address |
The shiur last night was about bringing G-d closer into daily life.Not through mystical contortions or spiritual cosplay, but through logistics.
Blessings before food. After food. After the toilet. Washing hands. Standing. Sitting. Existing with intention.One hundred brachot a day.
A very lot, as my niece once put it, back when numbers were still emotional.
There was a particular emphasis on the first three words of almost every prayer:Baruch Atah Hashem.
Blessed are You, G-d.
And that’s where the whole thing gets strange. And very Jewish.
Because we don’t talk like that.
We don’t address our parents that way. We don’t address teachers,........