The daily chizuk from The Rav, the holy gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — “We open the prayer with the morning zemiros and we finish it with dancing”

Sunday, 16 Av 5785 — taken from the shiur delivered to the avreichim of ‘Shuvu Banim, Atika’ on 3 Iyar 5782; these are his holy words:

The Zohar says that we begin the prayer with the morning zemiros, and with dancing after the prayer.

If not—then the prayer does not ascend Above; it accomplishes nothing.

Prayer, Rebbe Nachman says (Likutey Moharan 42): “And He saw their distress when He heard their song” (Tehillim 106:44).

If not, there is no Shechinah—the Shechinah disappears from the prayer.

Rashi says: “when He heard their song”—this refers to song and prayer in synagogues, to songs and praises—because only through songs and praises does the song rise Above.

Songs and praises—because only through songs and praises does the song rise Above.

We sing the prayer; we give it melody. The main thing is to put melody into the prayer—to sing it, to sing every word, to sing every letter.

There was Rabbi Hirsch of Nemirov, who would recite the entire prayer like this, without stopping for even a second.