Fix Your Eyes On Your Father In Heaven When You Pray

Midrash Mishlei 4:3

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(Proverbs 4:25): "Let your eyes look straight ahead" — at the time when you stand in prayer, direct your eyes and your heart toward your Father in heaven. If you have done so — "and let your eyelids look straight before you."

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