Timeless Wisdom: Why Pray?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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On Today's Show: In this episode of Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager, Dennis explores the importance of prayer in Judaism. He delves into the four types of prayer, highlighting the problematic nature of petitionary prayer, where individuals pray for specific outcomes. Dennis emphasizes that Jewish prayer is meant to affect the person making the prayer, not God. He discusses the significance of praise, affirming the Jewish purpose, and gratitude, which he believes is the single greatest part of Jewish prayer. Dennis also touches on the concept of Yom Kippur and the importance of living a life that prepares one for the "bitterness of the decree."
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| 0:28.9 | slash books. Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of hours of Dennis's |
| 0:36.1 | lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:48.8 | Thank you for coming. |
| 0:50.0 | I must tell you, I was stunned to see all the cars. |
| 0:56.3 | In Los Angeles. |
| 0:59.4 | If it goes under 70, they cancel the lecture. |
| 1:09.1 | To see this number of people show up on a miserable day shows that if nothing else, |
| 1:10.8 | you build heart of your souls in the East. |
| 1:14.3 | But I really, I was quite taken. |
| 1:20.3 | I thought it would be basically the Rabbi Kander officers and I this morning. |
| 1:24.6 | So I am very delighted to see all of you and do wish you were Shabbat Shalom. |
| 1:26.2 | Just one. |
| 1:33.5 | By the way, I must tell you, Dr. Golan, that that was a very interesting introduction. |
| 1:39.0 | To keep me awake through an introduction to me is an achievement, having heard a few, |
| 1:43.2 | and I appreciated that you took the time to do that. |
| 1:46.7 | One slight amendment, I tried to make the case last night for more than the Ten Commandments. I want to be relieved to know that that got through, |
| 1:55.0 | or I would go back to Los Angeles a little disconcerted that only ten that I had left that impression |
| 2:02.6 | by the way I am |
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