This episode is sponsored in memory of Rabbi Eliezer Skaist, HaRav Eliezer Daniel ben HaRav Eliyahu Dovid A"H, by his family.

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Dovid'l Weinberg—a rabbi, educator, musician, poet, and author—about the wide range of modes and levels of prayer.

Rav Dovid’l speaks with us about how prayer can be our bridge between our lonely place in the world and God’s omnipresence. In this episode we discuss:

• What is the relationship between Creation and prayer?
• How does communication between people relate to our communication with the Divine?
• If it often doesn’t seem to affect very much, why does prayer matter?

Tune in to hear a conversation about how finite humans seek to speak with an infinite God.

Interview begins at 10:24.

Rav Dovid'l Weinberg is an educator, musician, poet, and author. Rav Dovid’l teaches as a Ra’am in Yeshivat Orayta; is the Rosh Kollel of Camp HASC's Kollel Toras Chesed; is a co-founder of The Mishna Project, an educational tool which aids the memorization of mishnayos through music; played guitar for the band Omek Hadavar; and writes his own music. He is the author of Birth of the Spoken Word: Personal Prayer as the Goal of Creation and the recently published Reflections on Oros HaTorah.

References:

“Only You” by Dovid'l Weinberg

The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Birth of the Spoken Word: Personal Prayer as the Goal of Creation by Dovid'l Weinberg.

Pirkei Avot

Genesis

Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim Halevi Gilyonos Chazon Ish by Chaim Brisker and Chazon Ish

Halakhic Man by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Rav Schwab on Prayer by Shimon Schwab

Siddur Tehillat Hashem

Sichot HaRan by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm

Berogez Racheim Tizkor by David Bashevkin

Olat Reiyah by Rav Kook

A Call to the Infinite by Aryeh Kaplan

Chassidus Mevueres - Avodas Hatefillah by Schneur Zalman of Liadi

Tikkun HaKlali by Rebbe Nachman

Reflections on Oros HaTorah by Dovid'l Weinberg

Shemoneh Esrei: Exploring the Fundamentals of Faith through the Amida Prayer by Ezra Bick