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WorksheetsKeva/Kavana
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
What was the question that the suigya had about Rabbi Eliezer's teaching?
Where do our 3 times daily tefillot come from?
Why doesn't God hear our prayers since the Temple was destroyed?
How do we know we are supposed to say the blessings of the Amidah in their particular order?
What does "fixed" prayer look like?
We saw the rabbis offer various answers to the Gemara's question. Select all the statements below that match one of the opinions we saw in the sugiya.
Fixed prayer is when it is like a burden on a person.
Fixed prayer is when you have to say certain words at certain times.
Fixed prayer is when you don't add anything new to your prayer.
Fixed prayer is when you don't pray with the sunset/sunrise.
Fixed prayer is when you take a very long time to pray.
The mishna teaches us that a person should only pray in a reverent state of mind (koved rosh).
True
False
How important was this concept of koved rosh to the rabbi's idea of prayer?
Not important
So important that one shouldn't interrupt their prayer even for a king or a snake.
Not important enough that one wouldn't stop your prayer to greet a king.
They don't say how important it is.
When Rabbi Akiva prayed with the community he always made sure to pray for a very long time.
True
False
When Rabbi Akiva prayed on his own he would pray longer and would add a lot of bowing and kneeling to his prayer.
True
False
In the Mishna, Rabbi Eliezer makes a claim about prayer. Which of the statements below is Rabbi Eliezer's from our study of kavana?
"No one has kavana since the Temple was destroyed."
"The one who makes their payer fixed, their prayer is not supplication."
"Moshe learned the 13 Attributes from God at Mount Sinai."
"We will not have an answer until the World to Come."
