Partners In Prayer - Siddur

The question was raised as to why there are different customs regarding the order of prayer, and how each individual should pray. I replied that it is impossible to adequately explain these things in writing. However, the   following can be revealed:   Our sages teach us that a person entering and leaving the Holy Temple would have to bow 13 times, paralleling the 13 gates of the Temple (Shekalim 6:1,2). These are also alluded to in the Book of Ezekiel, where each tribe will have its own gate when the holiness of Jerusalem is restored to the status it had in the time of the Temple (Ezekiel 48:31). It is known that the Temple here on earth paralleled the Temple on High (Zohar, Volume II 59b). The Holy Temple on High therefore also has a gate for each tribe, as explained in the writings of the Ari (Pri Etz Chaim, Inyan Tefillah). The concept of prayer is therefore the key with which each individual enters through his own gate .  We are thus taught that prayer is, “The ladde...

You take the Zechus of Avraham   the Rokeiach says as follows. If you look carefully at the verses before the Karban Pesach in Perek Yud Bais ,(Exodus)  when Moshe is first giving them, (Klal Yisroel) the Mitzvos  that they have to do so he says , “everything has to be ready to go, you have to wear your belts and Naaleichem Biragleichem,   your shoes on your feet. The Rokeach says What do you mean “ shoes on your feet”? Plus shoes on your feet we make a Bracha , a special bracha for shoes so there must be some kind of relationship between the bracha of Hameicheen Mitzadei Gaver and Moshe telling them at before they before they did the first Karban Pesach, and Naaeleichem Biragleichem   You have to wear your shoes. Why do people wear shoes? They wear shoes if they're gonna walk. Who's the first walker? Avraham Avinu, Lech Licha   He says, it is interesting,  let's see if we could take this a little further because you know that we actually do something...