The Hebrew word for prayer is tafel, which literally means “secondary, a reflection, the periphery.” Prayer is not central to the issue. Prayers are merely channels, and like a driverless vehicle or a telephone line with no speaker to use it, prayers become a nullity. The business of prayer still remains big business in the modern world of religion, but like its idolatrous root, which turned such stars as Betelgeuse or Altair into gods and put a deity named Apollo into the cockpit of the sun, prayer is a myth.
