Day of Prayer

As presidents have done every year since 1952, President Obama today, National Day of Prayer, issued a proclamation urging people to, Turn to God in prayer and meditation.

It is pointed out in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor that though the earth was seeded with life nothing grew because it had not yet rained until the first human prayed to God. It is God’s first advise to all human beings, when you need something ask God.

Avraham 2000 years later came to the earth with the teaching of how the Creator is everywhere available to everyone all the time–in modern society this concept has been usurped for Monotheism, whatever that is. There was never a question about how many gods existed; everyone acknowledged the God of gods.

The message of Avraham has been usurped by religion who have found commercial value in God turning charity and misfortune into big business. The Talmud-Book of Law says, Nothing impedes between creation and Creator–God hears and answers all prayers, but sometimes the answer is, No.

According to Jewish Law prayer need not be vocalized, even thinking or feeling prayer is valid since nothing is hidden from the Creator. The Cabala teaches that Tephila/Prayer has the sense of tying; religion means to untie or retie. Before God all prayers are equal.