{"id":99476,"date":"2022-11-20T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99476"},"modified":"2022-11-20T21:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T19:46:55","slug":"thoughts-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/thoughts-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man once lamented that whenever he stood up to pray Shemoneh Esrei, his heart would be filled with foreign thoughts, which prevented him from having proper concentration.<\/p>\n<p><em>I advised him to learn the halachot regarding this prayer and be punctilious in them. Studying these halachot would instill in him an appreciation for the greatness of this prayer. Standing before the King of kings, he would automatically desist from thinking improper thoughts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man once lamented that whenever he stood up to pray Shemoneh Esrei, his heart would be filled with foreign thoughts, which prevented him from having proper concentration. I advised him to learn the halachot regarding this prayer and be punctilious in them. Studying these halachot would instill in him an appreciation for the greatness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}