This Thing Called Prayer
It's tempting to think of prayer as an eloquent form of begging. Please let me live. Please let me get this job. Please let my team win this football game. If we learn the "right" words to the prayers, if wecome to shul and sit and stand at the proper times, if we get it right, then our prayers will work. It's tempting to think that's how prayer works and it is equally tempting to dismiss it as a fantasy of wish fulfillment. But that's not what prayer is. From the time of the