A short YouTube monologue (by Elay Amitay Halevi) arguing that prayer's purpose is not to escape pain but to gain clarity about oneself, the Creator, and the 'rules' of life; understanding these rules enables one to rise above painful situations, and pain's function is to prompt prayer.
Prayer isn't just about, hey, get me out of this situation that I don't want to be in. That's not the intention. The intention of prayer cannot be to escape pain. The intention of prayer needs to be to get clarity about myself, about the creation, about the Creator, about the rules to the game of life. Because when you have that clarity, that's how you escape pain. When you know the rules to the game of life, this is how you can rise above a painful situation. All pain is there to do is to make us pray.
