A secret lies in a special combination of sounds that influences the heart. One must think about that in such a way that first the heart responds, and only afterward the ear hears. This is the most important thing, and no one really knows it.

Question: So it goes from the heart to the ear and then to everything else from the heart?

Answer: Yes, with any instrument, not only a musical instrument, sound must pass not into the ear, but into the heart, and only afterward, through the ear, it comes out.

Question: It come out of the ear?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Today you are turning everything upside down! So I do not hear with my ears?

Answer: No, with the heart.

Question: Does a word possess this quality, as you are now saying, like a sound?

Answer: Of course. A word is expressed precisely in this way.

Question: So one must find such a word that penetrates the heart, and only afterward it is heard?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are there such words at all?

Answer: There are.

Question: How in our science can one find such words? After all, we study such a science that is not curiosity, not knowledge. So how can we find such words that penetrate the heart and then…?

Answer: It is very simple. I asked my teacher, RABASH, about this. He said: “Well, haven’t you heard what is said in the prayer Shema? Shema, Michael.” I was surprised, but why “Michael”?

Comment: This is the prayer Shema Israel.

My Response: Yes. Because “Israel” is a general name.

Question: But in truth: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes, you can substitute any name there.

Question: Is this the address to the heart: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then it already begins to take shape. Is the Shema prayer considered one of the highest prayers?

Answer: Of course. Yes.

Question: Have we now reached the point that prayer is first heard precisely by the heart?

Answer: Yes, and only afterward by the ear—or heard at all.

Comment: You always insist that the prayer of a person, a simple person, is higher than the prayers composed by the sages, the Kabbalists. You always say this, and it surprises me somewhat, and people write that the prayer a person says, just the way he says it when he prays, is higher than those prayers.

My Response: Yes, because this is what he feels. An inner resonance of his heart with the upper word takes place. Therefore, this is the highest address to the Creator.

Question: So do you mean that when a person pronounces like that, with feeling, he hears it first from above?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it not born within him?

Answer: No, of course not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/18/25

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