SHMIRAT HALASHON & TEFILLAH I had a conversation with the great facilitator of conversations, MS, to whom I am grateful for her suggestions and helping me process and put this to writing (not to mention sending me a capture of what we discussed). Strategizing prayers is a high form of שמירת השון as taught by Rebbe נ׳י . So I undertook to do so as a שמירה for Aviva bas Shaina Chana, may she have a thorough and quick רפואה שלימה . I recall S.Y. Agnon’s story, Tehila, which introduced to me the concept that every person has a limited number of words they get to speak in their lifetime. “After days I came to fully understand the man’s logic: that a man shouldn’t spend in a short time what’s been allotted to him for all the days of his life. I trained myself to closely examine every word, whether it truly needed to be said, and came to be frugal with speech. And being frugal in speech, I was left with a great treasury full of words. My days ...