VIDEO: What is Prayer in Kabbalah?
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Posted by Mark Zimmerman Apr 28, 2007 |
VIDEO: What is Prayer in Kabbalah? (04:01)
What are we actually doing when we start talking to what we think of as God?
Why are our prayers so rarely answered?
This video explains Kabbalah's version of prayer, and presents the difference between prayer in religion to prayer in Kabbalah.
The religious versions of prayer don't help one achieve the goal of Kabbalah studies. In other words, speaking words of praise or request to God isn't considered prayer according to the method of Kabbalah.
Perceiving Reality describes relgion's prayer as conceiving a Creator which changes His attitude toward the person if the person requests it.
Perceiving Reality describes Kabbalah's version of prayer as initially stating that the Creator's attitude doesn't change toward the person - that the Creator is a constant force of good and bestowal - and the prayer in Kabbalah is that the person requests of the Creator to change him or her, so that he/she can perceive the eternal and perfect Creator.