In biblical times, Jews worshipped God with animal sacrifices. This reflected the sense that in order for a person to take worship seriously, it had to cost him something. Therefore the fundamental religious emotion when it came to worship was not pleading but gratitude. Prayer was about what we had received without having earned it. When praying, it is not the meaning of the words that matters, it is the emotional-aesthetic, right brain experience we crave. In other words, a prayer is "answered" not when we get what we were asking for, but when we are granted a sense of God's nearness. Prayer is the verbal form of worship.
When I pray, I speak to God, when I study Torah, I let God speak to me!
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