[Avodah] Kvitlech

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:02:43PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: Since we are physical people -- and even in our Afterlife there is an  
: aspect of "bodily-ness"  -- WE need concrete objects and concrete actions...

RSRH and RYBS associate this with the hitpa'el construction of
"lehitpallel" -- tefillah is something one does to oneself. The
Maharal says something similar in Nesivos Olam I (pg 81) -- available
at <http://www.beureihatefila.com/files/Why_Pray.pdf>. His focus is
on a person being a medabeir, and therefore the perfection of self is
accomplished through dibbur, "leqabeil hashlamah min he'elah ka'asher
hu adam chaseir..."

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

PS: Thanks to RMPoppers for pointing me to the Beurei haTefillah web
site.

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