Description: Kriah 07
She’arim BiTefillah
Kriah 07
When we walk into a shul and see a notice – please daven for so and so, or nowadays more likely you see it on one of the Jewish websites, or you get a text asking you to daven (and to forward the text to ten other people,) what do we do? Sometimes we daven, more often than not – we continue on with life. When they say Tehillim after davening for a sick person, people are trickling out the door. But Hashem will hold us responsible! Why didn’t you daven for these people? We can’t imagine how much responsibility there is upon us to daven for those around us.
Chazal place this obligation on everyone, but specially on Bnei Torah. If the person who is sick is a talmid Chacham, then we are expected to make ourselves sick over it!
This is something we can make a habit of. Anytime we do hear that someone needs our tefillos – say a short tefillah! It doesn’t have to be anything major – a short request is so powerful. When we walk in the street and we see a Jew in a wheelchair – that person is suffering – say a tefillah!
We see in Chazal that this was a given in the times of the Gemarah. The Gemarah says that if a tree starts to drop its fruits prematurely, you should mark it in red. The Gemarah asks, how will marking it in red help anything? It’s not a segulah or a refuah for trees. The Gemarah answers, people will see the red marking and they’ll understand the tree is dying or sick, and they will daven for your parnassah! If we see that it was a given to all the Jews of the time, even for a sick tree they would immediately pray for the person to save him from loss, how much more pashut should it be for us, when we see someone suffering – we should daven for them! Help them in the best way we can!
Likewise, the pasuk says by a metzorah, he should cry out, ‘tamei, tamei,’ I am tamei! Why should he do this? Chazal say he should let everyone know of his pain, his isolation, so that they should daven for him!
If we see someone in spiritual pain, people who are hanging around doing nothing, or worse, we should daven for them as well. Think how much suffering they are going through, and the stress and trauma it must be putting on their families – and say a short tefillah for them. Maybe a kapitel of Tehillim from memory. It doesn’t take more than a minute!
She’arim BiTefillah
Kriah 07
When we walk into a shul and see a notice – please daven for so and so, or nowadays more likely you see it on one of the Jewish websites, or you get a text asking you to daven (and to forward the text to ten other people,) what do we do? Sometimes we daven, more often than not – we continue on with life. When they say Tehillim after davening for a sick person, people are trickling out the door. But Hashem will hold us responsible! Why didn’t you daven for these people? We can’t imagine how much responsibility there is upon us to daven for those around us.
Chazal place this obligation on everyone, but specially on Bnei Torah. If the person who is sick is a talmid Chacham, then we are expected to make ourselves sick over it!
This is something we can make a habit of. Anytime we do hear that someone needs our tefillos – say a short tefillah! It doesn’t have to be anything major – a short request is so powerful. When we walk in the street and we see a Jew in a wheelchair – that person is suffering – say a tefillah!
We see in Chazal that this was a given in the times of the Gemarah. The Gemarah says that if a tree starts to drop its fruits prematurely, you should mark it in red. The Gemarah asks, how will marking it in red help anything? It’s not a segulah or a refuah for trees. The Gemarah answers, people will see the red marking and they’ll understand the tree is dying or sick, and they will daven for your parnassah! If we see that it was a given to all the Jews of the time, even for a sick tree they would immediately pray for the person to save him from loss, how much more pashut should it be for us, when we see someone suffering – we should daven for them! Help them in the best way we can!
Likewise, the pasuk says by a metzorah, he should cry out, ‘tamei, tamei,’ I am tamei! Why should he do this? Chazal say he should let everyone know of his pain, his isolation, so that they should daven for him!
If we see someone in spiritual pain, people who are hanging around doing nothing, or worse, we should daven for them as well. Think how much suffering they are going through, and the stress and trauma it must be putting on their families – and say a short tefillah for them. Maybe a kapitel of Tehillim from memory. It doesn’t take more than a minute!