Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 4

Why Is an Attitude to the Creator Called Prayer?

All feelings that we feel in our heart originate from the Creator, and thus the feeling in the heart is not called “prayer.” Prayer is our appeal to the Creator. The Hebrew word for “prayer” (“Lehitpalel“) comes from the word, “to judge” (“Lehaflil“), i.e., it is self-judgment, an evaluation of the connection that we have with the source of our feelings—the Creator.

Since the source of our feelings is good and benevolent, our prayer expresses the difference between our feelings and such goodness and benevolence. We discover the extent of the flaw in our heart. Prayer is the feeling of the difference between a person and the Creator.

In other words, if we were to measure the difference between what the Creator fills our heart with and what our heart feels and how we respond, we would see the extent of our flaw. Likewise, if we were fully corrected, we would feel fully good and benevolent. The more opposite our sensation, the greater the indication of our flaw.

Not only does it indicate the level of our flaw, but also our spiritual location. Since the Creator gives a force of goodness and benevolence through all 620 channels, we can know the channels we feel more or less, where we feel good or bad.

If we have a complete picture of the soul, we perceive and sense everything, we know where we are at every level, and we possess a clear picture of our corrected state compared to our current state. All aspects by which we evaluate our attitude to the Creator are collectively called “prayer.”

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