[Avodah] Praying to angels

[Daniel Israel]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:36:52 +0000 Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> 
wrote:
> If I personally can't
>see how the prayer isn't shituf, am I allowed to say it? What 
>would my kavanah be?

The MB (and probably others) suggest in several places (but in very 
different contexts) that a person should have kavannah on some act 
to fulfill whatever Chazal intended.  I don't see why this 
shouldn't work here.  As long as you don't think the person who 
wrote the prayer intended shituf, have kavannah to bring out 
whatever the author intended.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu