[Avodah] Chalah Not an Amulet

[Zev Sero]

On 22/08/2012 3:46 PM, Yosef Skolnick wrote:
> Can you elaborate on the connection between reward for doing something and it being a time of divine favor to allow for tefillos?

It's the specific reward, which is very important to women, and something
they naturally pray for a lot.  So when they're told that if they do this
mitzvah they will receive it, it's natural that when they do so they will
pray that this happen, that the zechus of the mitzvah should have this
effect, because they know that there are no guarantees and tefillah is
necessary; in effect it's *because they know* that challah is not an
amulet that they daven in addition to doing the mitzvah, and ask Hashem
to do as He has promised them.  Thus it is truly an eis ratzon, a time
when Hashem will surely listen to their tefilos.


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