Divrei Torah for the Growth-Oriented Jewish Teen
Oct 14, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
Recording of a Mussar Schmooze given to alumni of Baer Miriam Seminary \*\*\*Enjoyed this shiur? Sign up for weekly Divrei Torah at zviherman.substack.com\*\**
Rav Pinches says it's kind of like us looking at a plane, right? If you're up close on the tarmac and you're staring up at this massive structure, right, so you can understand that it holds hundreds of people, hundreds of suitcases, uh, you see the people going in, the food's being loaded, the suitcases being loaded.
Like, you may not fully understand, but like, okay, you see these big wings, and they catch the air, and the engine, and you know, maybe not understand, like, fully, but you ...
But if you're far away and you see this little speck of l- of, like, white floating acros- across the horizon, and you did ...
Let's say you didn't know any better, you had no idea what it was, and someone was like, "You know, in there, there are 600 people and 800 suitcases," and, you know, uh, all this stuff.
That- that's ridiculous." And you, you would never believe it, right, if you had no idea what was going on.
So that's kind of like our relationship with tefillah, right? Most, most of us have never gotten up close to the plane, right? Most of us have not gotten to the point where it's been explained to us in a way that we can truly understand it, myself included, by the way.
Rav Pinches says it's kind of like us looking at a plane, right? If you're up close on the tarmac and you're staring up at this massive structure, right, so you can understand that it holds hundreds of people, hundreds of suitcases, uh, you see the people going in, the food's being loaded, the suitcases being loaded.
Like, you may not fully understand, but like, okay, you see these big wings, and they catch the air, and the engine, and you know, maybe not understand, like, fully, but you ...
But if you're far away and you see this little speck of l- of, like, white floating acros- across the horizon, and you did ...
Let's say you didn't know any better, you had no idea what it was, and someone was like, "You know, in there, there are 600 people and 800 suitcases," and, you know, uh, all this stuff.
That- that's ridiculous." And you, you would never believe it, right, if you had no idea what was going on.
So that's kind of like our relationship with tefillah, right? Most, most of us have never gotten up close to the plane, right? Most of us have not gotten to the point where it's been explained to us in a way that we can truly understand it, myself included, by the way.
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