Words to ConSIDDUR: Insights into the Weekday Tefillos

Using Traditional Texts to Create a Personal Connection with Hashem Tefillah is thus meant to be a deep personal, emotional and spiritual experience. Rav Soloveitchik writes (Reflections of the Rav, vol. 1, 1979, p. 74): "This being so, how can such an experience be prescribed and controlled by the Halacha, which seeks to impose precise regulatory controls governing time and manner? How can the Halacha be reconciled with spontaneous emotionality?... The answer is that the norm creates the m...