Demonstration of Jewish prayer

Shalom Aleichem my dear brothers and sisters one of my viewers asked me to demonstrate a prayer meaning how do the Jews pray so this is exactly what I'm gonna do right now I want to demonstrate a prayer and and instead of reading it in Hebrew which not many of you would understand I decided to translate the whole thing to English I'm gonna read from a translation so that you would understand exactly what I'm asking during the prayers however the procedure is gonna be the same and we're gonna bow down and you know in certain places and you know take three steps so all that stays the same the only thing I'm going to change is instead of Hebrew I'm gonna say it in English now as you probably already know because I've mentioned this in my previous videos that as Jews we are commanded not to pronounce God's name in vain so since I have already prayed this evening I'm gonna replace God's name with the word Hashem meaning the name so that I'm not actually gonna pronounce God's name in Hebrew because I'm not really praying right now I'm just demonstrating it and to give you a little bit of background the prayer the words of the prayer were established by the Sanhedrin which was the great Court which was composed of 120 sages or rabbis and many of them were prophets and they're the ones who composed the text of the prayer total of 19 blessings now this is the prayer that we as Jews say three times a day now however during morning prayer this prayer of nineteen blessings is surrounded by different types of Psalms and songs and praises to God all of them are intended to arouse our intent and arouse our concentration during this prayer so the total service for the morning takes about for the weekday morning takes about 45 minutes or so in the afternoon we have this prayer that the 19 blessings plus we have one before and one after prays so it takes about 15 minutes or so and then in the evening also takes about 15 minutes we have the schwa and then we have this again 19 blessings and a little conclusion after that here in this video I'm only going to demonstrate the 19 blessing prayer which is really the main focus that we have during our three daily prayers and since most Orthodox Jews when before they would pray they would actually put up put on a jacket that you know cowers like the elbows and everything so that it is modest and so that we are you know look decent in front of before approaching God so so therefore I'm gonna do the same thing I'm gonna put on a jacket so that you know so that the prayer looks as realistic as you would see it probably in the synagogue and after I'm done with the prayer you know and after you watch this video if you have specific questions about certain words of the prayer or you know why this is this thing is mentioned or why this thing is mentioned please comment and I do the best of my ability I can try to answer although you know not always I will have probably the answer exactly why you know you know certain things are asked here certain things are asked there but this is the prayer that our ancestors passed down to us and what's actually interesting is that the Jews from all over the world whether in Europe or in Yemen or in Middle East anywhere from Africa India even though this prayer was it's really part of the oral tradition you know it's not something in the written Torah or in the Tanakh but it's interesting that until today this prayer pretty much was passed accurately by all the convent by all the different communities and it's pretty much the same there's slightly sometimes difference a little bit in the words in the grammar sometimes but that's overall it's pretty much the same nineteen blessings that are being said by Jews all over the world no matter what where they come from so here's a prayer Hashem opened my lips so that my mouth may relate your praise blessed are You Hashem our God God of our forefathers God of Abraham God of its hug god of Yaakov God great powerful and awesome supreme God who bestows good kindness possesses everything and recalls the kindness of the patriarchs and brings a redeemer to their descendants for the sake of his name with love King who helps serves and shields blessed are You Hashem the shield of Abraham you are mighty forever hashem you resurrect the dead and are manifestly capable of saving and causes you to fall who sustains the living with kindness resurrect the dead with great compassion support those who have fallen heals the sick releases the imprisoned and fulfills his trusted word to those asleep in the dust who is like you master of might and who can be compared to you king who brings death and gives life and causes salvation to sprout you are faithful to resurrect the dead blessed are You Hashem who resurrects the dead you are holy and your name is holy and the Holy Ones praise you every day sella blessed are You Hashem the holy God you graciously grant knowledge to men and teach understanding to mortals graciously grant us from yourself wisdom understanding and knowledge blessed are You Hashem who graciously grant knowledge bring us back our father to your Torah bring us near our King to your service and cause us to return with perfect repentance before you blessed are You Hashem who desires repentance forgive us our Father for we have transgressed pardon us our King for we have sinned for you our God good and forgiving blessed are You Hashem gracious one who forgives abundantly behold us please in our affliction and take up our fight and hurry to redeem us with a complete redemption for the sake of your name for you are God powerful Redeemer blessed are You Hashem who redeems Israel heal us hashem so that we will be healed save us so that we will be saved for you are our pride bring cure and healing for all our illnesses all our pains and all our wounds for you are God compassionate and faithful healer blessed are You Hashem who heals the sick of his people Israel Hashem our God in all our in doers bless our year with duals of goodwill blessing and benevolence and may its end be that of life contempt meant and peace as other good years for blessing for you are God good and beneficent who blesses the years blessed are You Hashem who blesses the years sound a great horn for our freedom and raise a banner together our exiles gather us together quickly from the four corners of the earth to our land blessed are You Hashem who gathers the displaced of his nation Israel restore our judges as at first and our mentors as in the beginning remove from us distress sour and groan and reign over us soon you alone hashem with kindness and compassion with righteousness and justice blessed are You Hashem King who loves righteousness and justice for the heretics and the informers let there be no hope let the wicked perish in an instant and let all your foes and all your enemies speedily be cut down and as for any evil government may you quickly uproot and smash it destroy them and humble them speedily in our days blessed are You Hashem who smashes foes and humbles the wicked and righteous and under pious and under remnant of your people the house of Israel and under elders and under remnant of their Torah academies and under righteous converts and on us may your compassion please be stirred Hashem our God give good reward to all who truly trust in your name and to put our lot with them may we never be embarrassed for it is in you that we place our trust and it is upon your great compassion that we truly rely blessed are You Hashem the support and Reliance of the righteous may you dwell in Jerusalem your City as you promised and the throne of David your servant may you speedily establish within it and rebuild it as a internal structure speedily in our days blessed are You Hashem who rebuilds Jerusalem the offspring of David your servant may you speedily cause to sprout forth and may you raise his power through your salvation for it is toward your salvation that we hope all day long blessed are You Hashem who causes to sprout forth the power of salvation hear our voice Hashem our God merciful father have pity and compassion with us and accept our prayer with compassion and with favour for you our God who hears prayers and supplications from before you our King do not turn us away empty-handed be gracious to us and respond to us and hear our prayer for you hear the prayer of every mouth blessed are You Hashem who hears prayer find favor Hashem our God in your people Israel and turn to their prayer restore the service to the inner sanctuary of your temple and Israel's sacrifice offerings and their prayers accept with favor speedily with love and made always find favor before you the service of Israel your people may you in your great compassion take delight in us and be pleased with us and may our eyes witness your return to Zion with compassion blessed are You Hashem who returns his divine presence to Zion we give thanks to you for it is you who are Hashem our God God of our forefathers forever and ever our strength the strength of our lives and the shield of our salvation are you from generation to generation we shall give thanks to you and relate your praise for our lives that are entrusted in your hands for our souls that are deposited in your care for your miracles that are with us every day and for your wonders and your favors that are with us at all times evening morning and afternoon you are the good one for your compassion has never cease you are the compassionate one for your kindness has never ended for always have replaced our hope in you and for all these things may be blessed exalted and exalted your name our King constantly for ever and ever all the living shall give thanks to you Sela and they shall praise and bless your great name sincerely forever for it is good God our salvation and help sella God who is absolute good blessed are You Hashem oh good one is your name and to you it is befitting to give thanks establish peace goodness and blessing life Grace and kindness righteousness and compassion over us and over all of Israel your nation bless us all as one our Father with the light of your countenance for it is with the light of your countenance that you Hashem our God gave us Torah and life love and kindness righteousness and compassion blessing and peace made to be favourable in your eyes to bless us and to bless your entire people Israel with abundant power and peace blessed are You Hashem who blesses his people Israel with peace amen may they find favor the utterance of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart before you Hashem my strength and my Redeemer my god guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit and to those who curse me let my soul remain silent and let my soul be as dust to all open my heart in your Torah and let my soul pursue your Commandments all who rise up against me to do me harm quickly nullify their conspiracy and ruin their plans do it for the sake of your name do it for the sake of your right hand do it for the sake of your Torah do it for the sake of your holiness so that your loved ones may be saved save with your right hand and answer me may they find favor the utterances of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart before you Hashem my strength and my Redeemer he who makes peace in his high places may he in his compassion make peace for us and for his entire nation Israel and say Amen may it be your will Hashem our God God of our forefathers that you rebuild the temple speedily in our days and grant our portion in your Torah so that we may fulfill the commandments of your will and serve you wholeheartedly

Channel: Blessed is HaShem, the G-d of Israel.

Views: 1,775,111

Keywords: Torah, prayer, talmud, prophet, moses, moshe, tanach, pbuh, bibile, shmoneh esrei, shmonei, esrei, shmone esreh, shmoneh esreh

Id: XgFA5UonqyU

Length: 19min 27sec (1167 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 13 2018