Translation:Mishnah/Seder Zeraim/Tractate Berakhot/Chapter 5/5/Translation


 * One who is praying, and makes a mistake,
 * it is a bad omen for him;
 * and if he was a delegate of the congregation, it is a bad omen for his delegators (the congregation),
 * because "a person's messenger is [considered] like himself".
 * They used to say about Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa
 * that when he would pray for the sick,
 * he would say, "This one will live, and this one will die".
 * They said to him: "How do you know"?
 * He replied to them:
 * "If the prayer is fluent in my mouth, then I know that it has been accepted;
 * and if not, then I know that it has been torn up [because the person is better off dying]."