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Eliana Light

00:13

Shalom, everybody, and welcome again to the Light Lab Podcast! My name is Eliana Light, I am so so excited to be here with my friends Cantor Ellen Dreskin,

Ellen Dreskin

00:23

Hello, everybody!

Eliana Light

00:25

And Rabbi Josh Warshawsky.

Josh Warshawsky

00:27

Hello again!

Eliana Light

00:29

And here is our intro question, a preparation question, if you will, which is how do you prepare for prayer? However you want to take this question, I'm really interested to hear your thoughts because as you see from our notes, my answer is blank, because I don't know what I'm going to say yet. And so hopefully y'all can inspire me, Ellen, why don't you go first?

Ellen Dreskin

00:52

Oh, great. Thanks a lot. I actually did think about this, I did my homework. I love a quotation from Reb Chaim of Tzanz, who said that his there was a prayer in order to pray. And he would say, I pray that I may be able to pray. And I know that important things even before I start to do them, or even before there's an exercise warm up, I'm thinking in my head, how am I even going to prepare to warm up and getting my mind in the right in the right zone, to even begin to think about what I'm about to do. So I got to go there mentally before I can go there spiritually.

Episode 9- Palace Enough for me (Adonai S'fatai Tiftach)