[Avodah] Hisbonenus

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:06:51PM -0400, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote:
: What jarred me recently in my current perusal of Nefesh HaChaim is how 
: much he is in sync with the Besht on tefillah...

I am particularly troubled by the NhC's (2:13) actually recommending
visualizing the words to the exclusion of paying attention to their
meaning. That we can not recreate all the meaning Anshei Kenesses
haGdolah put into the words, and therefore it's actually inferior to
read the words for their meaning.

Besides, how much of tefillah even dates back to the tannaim? As
mentioned recently, in the BHMQ, davening was Aseres hadiberos, Shema,
their berakhos and the Amidah. And even those we know were actually
solidified into fixed texts later.

So what are we talking about: topics of each of the berakhos of the
verious versions of the Amidah, and perhaps birkhos Shema, but not
actual content? How many words then is RCV discussing?

Gut Voch!
-mi

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