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<DIV>In a message dated 9/5/2007 10:38:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
avodah-request@lists.aishdas.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>We are
entitled to ask hashem. We don't have the right to expect <BR>that
our requests be granted</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>I would underscore and bold this comment. "Shomea Tefilah" means that
HaShem always hears Tefilah. It by no means that our tefilos are always answered
in the manner that we seek when we utter them-even with the maximum amount of
Kavanah. Here is a simple example- RYBS related that he once prayed that he had
hoped to stay in Europe pre WW2 because that was the center of the Torah world.
However, RYBS emigrated to the US. RYBS commented that he realized that despite
his tefilos, he understood in retrospect that such a prayer, even with the
upmost kavanah, was not destined to have been answered in the way that he had
intended. </DIV>
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<DIV>Steve Brizel</DIV>
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