Consider the following questions about the songs we discussed:
Which song seems most like a tefillah to you? What "type" of tefillah (shevach, bakasha, etc.) would you characterize it as?
Which song seems least like a tefillah?
Which song resonates or "speaks" to you?
** Here are links to some of the music - enjoy!
Anachnu lo Tzrichim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSR40XoN12w
K'shehalev Bocheh - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FueQaJgprxE&feature=related
Halevai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwEatU285N8
TODAH is most like a tefillah to me. A thank you tefillah. Anachnu lo tzrichim is least like a tefillah. Halevai "speaks" to me.
ReplyDeleteHalevai is a great song! Why does it resonate with you?
DeleteIt resonates with me because it says all of the things that can happen if only one thing happens. "If a rainbow comes the world may be repaired, the day may bloom, the desert may sprout fields of grass, we may sit under the shades of fig trees."
DeleteThe song "Anachnu Lo Tzrichim" is the most like a Tefillah to me because in it, someone is saying, "Please, G-d, I already asked for everything. Please just give me rain and bring him back to us." The person is praying to G-d from his heart. That to me is a true prayer - a prayer from one's heart.
ReplyDelete"Anachnu Lo Tzrichim" is a bakasha - a request.
Ironically, I think the song "Tefillah" is the least like a tefillah because it's basically just describing G-d. The only time it actually says something to G-d is in the chorus, when it says, "Watch over us like children, watch over us and don't leave us." Describing G-d is not a prayer!
I think the song "Todah" "speaks" to me because it's all about thanking G-d for everything He created. I think that we should thank G-d for everything, even the bad things, because G-d has a reason for everything and everything will be okay in the end.
Anachnu Lo Tzrecheem speaks to me thie most.
ReplyDeleteThe song that is most like a tefillah to me is the "Todah". I think this is the best prayer because it's thanking G-d for all that he has done and all he will do. It fits in both prayer catagories becauase it's thanking G-d and when we thank G-d first he might be more willing to do what we want. Usually before i go to sleep as i am lieing in my bed i thank G-d for the day and for my family and for my friends and for everything I have today. Also what I had and will have. Then after I thank G-d, I ask for some things that I really really want. I know that everything won't come true, but I feel comfortable talking to G-d. I know i'm probably not talking directrly to him, but I feel like he is listening to me. I also feel like he answers me in different ways. He answers everyone in a different way (-Kitah Zayin)
ReplyDeleteDo you then do you connect to G-D the most in your bed? You said that you don't feel like directly talking to G-D, so then who are you talking to?
DeleteI don't think that any of these songs are tefillah. I think that a song is a song not a prayer, it's something that's to express feelings not praying to G-D. Even though G-Ds name is in the song it's not something to substitute in for a prayer. If it was mandatory to pick one I would pick Anachnu Lo Tzrichim because the author is praying to G-D in the song. I interpret it to mean that someone praying for someone in the army and for rain. It would be a prayer asking for something (bakasha).
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