Psalm for David: "I call upon you, O Lord; make haste to me; give ear to my voice when I call to you." Solomon said (Proverbs 15:30): "Bright eyes gladden the heart." The Holy One, blessed be He, illuminates the eyes of the righteous, and they rejoice like fat and marrowy bones at good tidings. What is the good tidings that they receive?
As it is written above (Psalm 140:14): "Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name." David asks of you, "Let me be among those who see your face." "I call upon you, O Lord; make haste to me." What does "make haste to me" mean?
It means that I have a desire to fulfill your will, and you should also desire me. To what is this comparable? To a person who had to appear before the ruler, who saw that all the officials spoke with him. He called to the ruler and said to him, "I have no one to speak for me.
You are the judge and the advocate. Please advocate for me." So too, David said: Some people trust in their good and righteous deeds, while others trust in the merit of their ancestors. But I trust in you, even though I have no good deeds, because I have called upon you.
Therefore it is said, "I call upon you, O Lord; make haste to me." "My prayer shall be set before You, etc." What is the meaning of "my prayer shall be set"? So said David, "My Master, when the Temple was standing, we would burn incense before You. Now that we have no altar and no High Priest, may my prayer be accepted and may it tear through the firmament."
Therefore, it is said, "My prayer shall be set before You, etc." Similarly, it says (Ezra 9:4), "And to me were assembled everyone who trembled at the words of the God, etc." (Psalms 55:18) "In the evening, and in the morning, and at noon, I will express my complaint and moan, etc." Why in the evening? Rather, all day long my soul is at ease in the world and I am not troubled, but in the evening I die and my intestines are exchanged.
Therefore, a person must confess his sins and supplicate in the Mincha prayer. Therefore, it says, "The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." And so Daniel says (Daniel 9:21), "While I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision, etc." When is this? At the time of the Mincha prayer.