Here is a list of the questions we raised in class! You do not need to ask each of these questions to your interviewee. This exercise was to show you the types of questions you can ask.
- What connects you to God?
- How do you block out your surroundings?
- Where do you get your kavvanah from?
- Do you think of something specific?
- What makes you want to wake up and go to shul?
- Is there someone who you look up to?
- What makes you daven so hard?
- What is your favorite tefillah? why?
- How do you remind yyourself to do everything? wash your hands? do modeh ani?
- Have you been like this your whole life? Was their a transformation?
- Do you plan on davening your whole life?
- Why do you feel so close to God? That you need to daven to him?
- Do you feel that davening changes anything? does it have an impact?
- Does it feel like an obligation or a privilege to daven?
- What is a moment in your life that you felt the most close to Gd?
- What are you so thankful for?
- What do you daven for?
- What’s actually going through your mind?
- Do you find davening to be too long? how do you handle that?
- Do you know the meaning of every prayer?
- Do you ever think that because of you tefillot HaShem willl take care of you? and not thing bad will happen?
- Does davening change your day?
- Do you ever pray out of anger?
- Do you ever feel guilty if you miss tefillah?
- Have you ever not prayed because you were angry about something? or been annoyed at Gd about something?
- Do you love being Jewish?
- How is tefillah different for you now than when you were younger?
- How is your tefillah different from just a regular tefillah on a regular day vs davening for a sick person?
- In which parts of tefillah do you feel closer to HaShem?
- Have you ever gone through a time when you didn’t feel connected? How did you recover?
The person I interviewed was my dad's friend named Jay. He is very religious eternally and always davens so thats why i chose him. Over the time of interviewing Jay, we talked about his relationship with g-d and when he feels most connected to him.
ReplyDeleteThe first question that i asked him was what connects him to g-d. He responded that we have the power to talk to g-d and pray to him. And that we don't need a messenger and we can talk to g-d directly.
The people he looks ups to are famous Rabbi and people.
When i asked him why he feels so close to g-d, he said because we don't even understand how kind g-d is to us at least we can thank him for everything he does for us.
He also feels that davening changes things because it even says it the Torah.And he said that he a moment in his life when he feels most connected to g-d is during bad times (because thats when you just want to pour your heart out to him). He even thinks that it is a privilege to daven. The things that Jay told me he is thankful for is his health, his kids' health and that g-d gave him grandson.
Sometimes he does find ravening too hard but he said it really depends on the Rabbi and the minion The way he deals with it is that he got to a fast minion.
The way tefillah is different for him now rather than when he was younger is because he has a better understanding of it and tries to focus on the words and the meanings of them.