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Mimisinger
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Tue, Dec 06 2016, 12:49 pm
When you daven for people, and presumably have a list, how often do you update that list and how? I have some of the name of the people who gave me the names so I can ask them, though I have quite a long list, what about the others? Do you just daven for them for a certain amount of time and then start your list new?
Thanks
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Ruchel
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Wed, Dec 07 2016, 4:28 am
When the list gets long I keep the newer ones, the more urgent, the closer ones and those that touch me most
May all the people get a yeshua!
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essie14
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Wed, Dec 07 2016, 5:31 am
I only keep a list of people I know personally and who I am being updated on because of our relationship. When I get a random request I say one perek of tehillim and a yehi ratzon for that person and that's it. I find that keeping a huge list of strangers actually hinders my kavannah.
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seeker
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Wed, Dec 07 2016, 5:05 pm
essie14 wrote: | I only keep a list of people I know personally and who I am being updated on because of our relationship. When I get a random request I say one perek of tehillim and a yehi ratzon for that person and that's it. I find that keeping a huge list of strangers actually hinders my kavannah. |
This.
There are so many people who ask and then disappear, or who are only passing along a message that they got tenth-hand and nobody even knows who the person is anymore... last time I saw someone who kept a list "until further notice" had about 5 pages and was just rattling off names and I can't even imagine there's any meaning to that.
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Debbie
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Wed, Dec 07 2016, 7:30 pm
A few years ago a text message went round my community asking people to daven for someone who was apparently at deaths door; there were no updates for months,but then a year or more later exactly the same text was sent round again not a single detail had changed.
I have also received an email asking me to daven for someone and it turned out that person died the previous year.
I do most certainly daven for people,but I do think updates are necessary.
I can understand ladies here saying it disturbs their Kavanah, I've been known to go blank when trying to remember some of the names on my list!
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zaq
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Thu, Dec 08 2016, 4:10 pm
essie14 wrote: | I only keep a list of people I know personally and who I am being updated on because of our relationship. When I get a random request I say one perek of tehillim and a yehi ratzon for that person and that's it. I find that keeping a huge list of strangers actually hinders my kavannah. |
This. Reciting a long laundry list of total strangers is virtually meaningless to me. I daven daily for those I know personally or are closely connected to those I know personally, and for strangers on a one-time basis. Top off the prayer with "betoch shear cholei amcha yisrael" or words to that effect and finished.
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Debbie
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Thu, Dec 08 2016, 4:16 pm
As a point of interest, how long do the ladies here daven for someone who is on the list for the long term; is one supposed to daven indefinitely or is there a period after which one can be said to have done ones duty?
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