Reply To: Dvar Torah “The fisher King”

{“The verdict is decreed by the destroying angels, and the request is through the maamar of the holy ones” (Daniel 4:14).} And in the matter of prayer, there are two approaches. Before the decree has been issued we follow the regular order of prayer and there is no need to veil the prayers. But after the decree has been issued our prayers have to be disguised <within stories>, so that the <accusing angels> standing to the left do not understand and protest. As is written, “The verdict is decreed by the destroying angels”–i.e., when it is after the decree has been issued–then, “the request is through the maamar of the holy ones”–then the tzaddikim disguise their requests in a maamar.