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Staying focused is particularly challenging when praying for someone else’s yeshua (salvation)whom you may not even know. For instance in the case where you receive the name of someone ill and are asked to daven for their refuah. How can you daven with intention and a stir of the heart when you don’t even know the person involved?
The power of guided imagery is an indispensable tool to awaken feelings of empathy. It is not enough to just think about the person but should take it one step further. Visualize the patient, the physical and emotional pain they are steeped in. Reflect upon the family members and the difficulty they are going through while seeing their loved one in pain. It is important to see ourselves in that place and B’H warm sensitive feelings will follow enabling us to daven for them with more kavannah (intent).
The mind tends to drift into distant places during formal and informal tefilla. Connecting with Hashem gets interrupted not just when our concentration takes us elsewhere but also when we cannot relate to Whom we are praying to. The Omer is intended to center us spiritually; moment by moment, day by day. Tightening the bond between us and Hashem, visualizing how much He loves, provides for us and unconditionally looks out for our eternal best is the avodah of these 49 days.
Today’s Daily Dose of Emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Naomi bat Sarah. She was badly burnt while koshering her kitchen for Pesach. May Hashem shower her with rachamei Shamayim and may she merit a complete healing amongst all of Klal Yisrael who is sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
