Are the Prayers of Women Superior?
22nd August 2023
I spend a lot of time in prayer, both alone and in a quorum (a minyan) of men. Prayer is a form of quasi-meditation, once likened by Rabbi Sachs to focusing on micro-adjusting a shortwave radio dial to tune into a very faint and elusive signal. The “still small voice” might be our souls, or it might be the voice of the divine, or it might just be our imagination. I think it might, at times, be none of them, or all three together.
The point of prayer, like that of almost every religious practice, is to focus the mind of the participant on what is important from the aspect of that particular religion.