Tefila4Life Shiur 1140 Bechor (Vayevarech Dovid)
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min · 2 segments
Who Is the Bechor?
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Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min · 2 segments
Who Is the Bechor?
An important aspect of Psuche Dezimra is to be me'ayuras.
to feel the davening, to daven with a gishmak.
Many times you come into davening, it's early in the morning, people are tired, many people are not in the mood, and sometimes you get swept up with everybody else around you, and you don't necessarily give the tefillah, the fire and the passion that it deserves.
Chazal say, the first ten people that come to davening, are...
They're the ones that take schar, keneged, everybody else that's there.
The reason behind it, one of the reasons behind it, is because they set the tone.
They're the ones that set the mood in the room.
To davening.
It's not just a quiet bais medesh.
Now there's ten people here.
The shechina comes when there's ten people.
That's where they get so much schar.
Rav Hutner, in his Igris Uxavim, in Igaris Ayin Dalad, says something interesting, why a Bechar takes Pishnayim.
Why does a Bechar get double of the Nachalah? He says, because a Bechar created that his father is a father.
Before he was born, he wasn't a father.
And the fact that this Bechar was born made his father into a father.
The rest of the children come after the father was already a father.
But the Bechar creates...
the situation of being a father.
That's why he gets double.
And Avonar continues, and he's discussing with these Talmidim, that they were the first in the yeshiva, so they created the yeshiva.
But he's making a point.
The pioneer, the person that set the tone, gets double schar.
When you come into davening, and other people are schwach, they're not in the mood, they're tired, whatever the situation is, and you get involved, and you set the tone, what you're doing is, you're making the tefillah into a tefillah.
You're not just following a tefillah that exists, you're creating the situation of tefillah.
An important aspect of Psuche Dezimra is to be me'ayuras.
to feel the davening, to daven with a gishmak.
Many times you come into davening, it's early in the morning, people are tired, many people are not in the mood, and sometimes you get swept up with everybody else around you, and you don't necessarily give the tefillah, the fire and the passion that it deserves.
Chazal say, the first ten people that come to davening, are...
They're the ones that take schar, keneged, everybody else that's there.
The reason behind it, one of the reasons behind it, is because they set the tone.
They're the ones that set the mood in the room.
To davening.
It's not just a quiet bais medesh.
Now there's ten people here.
The shechina comes when there's ten people.
That's where they get so much schar.
Rav Hutner, in his Igris Uxavim, in Igaris Ayin Dalad, says something interesting, why a Bechar takes Pishnayim.
Why does a Bechar get double of the Nachalah? He says, because a Bechar created that his father is a father.
Before he was born, he wasn't a father.
And the fact that this Bechar was born made his father into a father.
The rest of the children come after the father was already a father.
But the Bechar creates...
the situation of being a father.
That's why he gets double.
And Avonar continues, and he's discussing with these Talmidim, that they were the first in the yeshiva, so they created the yeshiva.
But he's making a point.
The pioneer, the person that set the tone, gets double schar.
When you come into davening, and other people are schwach, they're not in the mood, they're tired, whatever the situation is, and you get involved, and you set the tone, what you're doing is, you're making the tefillah into a tefillah.
You're not just following a tefillah that exists, you're creating the situation of tefillah.
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