Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky spends Three Minutes on Tefilah

When does one solely on Hashem and how does one integrate the concept of Hishtadlus?

We use the word Elokeinu - Our G-d very often in prayer. Why mix in others in your prayer?

What do the words "Dabkeinu L'Mitzvosecha - Attach Us to Your Mitzvos" mean? What is the difference between the request to be accustomed to Torah and attached to mitzvos?

We ask Hashem to accustom us to Torah. Isn't that really up to us and our hard work?

We are about to explore the last set of early morning personal supplications that we say from Berachos until Shemoneh Esrai. However, the words that follow Yehi Ratzon are not consistent throughout all of our prayers

Parshas Vayishlach - Brotherly Confusion. Yaakov asks Hashem, "Save me from my brother - from Esav." Aren't they two of the same? A story from the former Soviet Union may shed some light.

The Final Part of Birchas HaSHachar begins with a Supplication that it be "Your will" In 3 Minutes, we preface this most important supplication.

The final blessing (Part 1) of Birchos Ha Hshachar seems to go full circle for a blessing that was made hours earlier.

The first part of the final blessing seems to be a recap of thanks for the simple fact that you woke up!

Bracha 14 "He gives strength to the weary seems out of place. In fact the Mechaber in Shulchan Aruch says the minhag of sefardim is not to say. (Ashkenazim do say it). Where does it come from to what does it refer