God wears Tefillin… but what is in the pair that He wears?! The Gemara continues, teaching us the value of praying in the synagogue (shul). The Mitzvah of praying with a Minyan (10 male Jews over the age of 13) is discussed.
The importance of running to the synagogue as opposed to running away from the synagogue is discussed. The importance of having a fixed place to pray is discussed. The Gemara then continues onto an interesting discussion about the rewards giving for various things. These include rewards for going to lessons where there is discomfort of some sort and the rewards giving for listening to the lesson itself. What are the rewards for one who fasts? Is reward giving for fasting – or perhaps there is something much more important than the fast itself – for which the fast is given to us to earn that reward?
