{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe Podcast Collection","title":"Elul 4 - Pray Like a Child: The Courage to Keep Asking","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":371,"description":"In Chodesh Elul, Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe reflects on Moshe’s ascent of Mount Sinai and his plea for forgiveness after the sin of the Golden Calf. Rather than demanding guarantees or questioning the Jewish people’s record, Hashem responds to Moshe’s request with forgiveness. The lesson is simple but profound: our responsibility is to ask. In prayer, as in life, when we never ask, we greatly reduce the possibility of receiving.\nChildren naturally understand this. They ask repeatedly, confidently, and without concluding that a delayed answer means they are unloved. Rabbi Wolbe illustrates this through the humorous story of his daughter repeatedly requesting coloring pages. When told to wait, she changes tactics, asks for a “hug-it-out candy,” embraces her father—and immediately returns to her original request. Her persistence reflects the trust of a child who knows that her father loves her and wants to give to her.\nElul invites us to bring that same childlike trust into our relationship with Hashem. We should not pray once, hear “not now,” and give up. We return and say, “Hashem, I need help.” We strengthen the relationship through mitzvahs, continue asking, and trust that Hashem never tires of hearing from His children. Persistent prayer is not a lack of faith; it is an expression of closeness, dependence, and confidence in Hashem’s love._____________\nThis Podcast Series is Generously Underwritten by Peter & Becky Botvin\nThis Episode is dedicated in Honor of Dan & Elisheva Kullman!\nRecorded at TORCH Centre in the Levin Family Studios (B) to a live audience on August 18, 2023, in Houston, Texas.\nReleased as Podcast on August 21, 2023\n_____________\nListen, Subscribe & Share: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jewish-inspiration-podcast-rabbi-aryeh-wolbe/id1476610783Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4r0KfjMzmCNQbiNaZBCSU7) to stay inspired! Share your questions at aw@torchweb.org or visit torchweb.org for more Torah content.  \n_____________About the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/76tI1XOrBfK-PjMp-DsYPvoo8EZGRPqfIP9oxC23HYU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zN2Vi/ZDJhMmE0MjViNjFl/MWZkODkzOWUwZmJm/ZTQ5ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}