“Hear, O Israel, the Eternal is our God, the Eternal is One.
Blessed be God’s Name and glorious kingdom forever and ever.”
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I [God] teach you this day, shall be upon your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for a reminder before your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.”

I have a question. Scary huh? I think way too much.

The disciples asked Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray.” Now I don’t know how much you know about the Jewish tradition and religion, but these people pray. They have a prayer for everything you can imagine. Prayer over the bread and the wine and the meat and the cooking of the meat and the cutting of the cooked meat. They pray over the sunrise and the sunset. They pray over the song with a song. They have a prayer for walking in the morning and walking in the evening. They pray while lighting candles and putting the candles out. They pray for Shabbat to begin and end. They pray when hanging the Mezuzah. There is even a prayer for when it rains. I guess what I am saying is that these men knew prayer. What was so different that Jesus had to teach them this different form of prayer? Jesus taught them in Hebrew or Aramaic a prayer we call the Lord’s Prayer. It is a Jewish style prayer that the parts were spoken often. Jesus taught us to pray in and entirely Jewish way. To sanctify the name of G-d, summarize the essential petitions of the ancient Jewish Amidah prayer and concludes with a prayer similar to that of Solomon at the dedication of the first temple. So these words and concepts were not foreign to the disciples.

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I personally don’t think it was so much in the words that Jesus prayed, but in how he prayed
them. Jesus talked directly to God as a Parent. He called God ‘Abba’, daddy, papa. He used an endearing word to denote the relationship. Jesus spoke to his Daddy and it well could have been His Mommy. To me that says Jesus sat on God’s ‘lap’ and was loved and encouraged by an awesome Creator. Their oneness was such that Jesus felt treasured. I believe that the disciples didn’t want to learn to pray, they wanted to learn how to commune with God. When I pray that prayer at church I always try to remember that we are learning to touch God in the way Jesus explained that we could, by making Him our Parent.