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The Rabbenu Bachya explains that nefilas apayim is smilar to puting the feet together at s’e showing tnat without the help of Hashem we cannot move and our body is tied up as our feet.
After the death of Korach and his assembly, a mageifa breaks out among the Bnei Yisroel. We see that Aharon is told by Moshe Rabbeinu to go amongst them and offer ketores in order to be m’chaper them and thereby stop the mageifa. IY”H, in a few weeks, we will come to Parshas Balak where we see Zimri take Cozbi and sin in front of Moshe and the Klal. When a mageifa breaks out amongst Shevet Shimon, Pinchas comes and kills Zimri and the woman, and the mageifa is stopped. It would seem from these two incidents that the koach to stop a mageifa is given over to the Kohanim. While all of our tefillos are obviously necessary and important, in this particular nisayon, those of the Kohanim should clearly be loudest and strongest.
Korach also davened, I presume.
But tefilla is only valuable when it comes from a person WHOLEHEARTEDLY versus just reading from a siddur without even knowing what the words mean.
If a person needs to they can use an artscroll siddur to get proper translation to know what their davening for so that it comes from them WHOLEHEARTEDLY and Hashem can answer their sincere tefillos
RebE, doea tefilah works without hishtadlus?
So, if you are not helping your neighbor but davening for him, it is helpful for both. Good to know.
RebE, my apology, I am not against davening for neighbors. and not neighbors too.
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