One who comes in from a journey is forbidden to pray. Or one is distraught is forbidden to pray. What is the reason? Declares Isaiah, “Therefore now hear this,
you afflicted and drunken but not with wine….”
51:21
-Yerushalmi 5:1
Why would the Talmud make such a statement? Surely we need
to pray when we are distressed, in need of help?!
Perhaps, they reason, that if we prayed out of anger we may say
words that we come to regret.
Prayer should always be treated as sacrosanct, not like Monopoly
money.
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