How to Make Prayers Come True

[@alexjohnson9630]

Thank you.

[@simplyme475]

I think the words in the siddur are amazing, they are telling us how to be better people and the more times we say the words the closer we draw to Hashem. Eg. Compassionate, kind, peaceful, wisdom, etc etc to be like Him and it tells you how He is.

[@emindeboer5280]

true or false are predications in regard to logic or in regard to reality: true or false cannot be applied to a concept like prayer, because, the receiver of prayers is bejond logic, reality.

[@simplyme475]

I have heard that prayer is not to get what you request but to ask Hashem to make us better people. So by asking him for whatever, whatever the outcome will make us into better people🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️does this make sense?

[@TheJudge7e7]

Does prayer presuppose the metaphysical passibility of G-d? Divine simplicity (Maimonides' 2nd principle) entails G-d's timelessness, which entails immutability, which entails impassibility. A Being that doesn't change can't be affected by anything. The core components of Classical Theism are a package deal, following logically from G-d's absolute Oneness, and seem in tension with prayer. The ontological arrow goes from HaShem==>Creation, not HaShemCreation. (Unless He's causing us to pray as a means of communicating with us.)