supplication

In his characteristic manner, the judge mixed commendation, supplication and insinuation, mangling metaphors and whole sentences in service of cutting insights.

As the Peabody Award-winning television producer of non-fiction narrative programming and Founding Editor of Mediaite.com, Colby Hall, has written: This “creepy” and “messianic bit of messaging” will “cause many to cringe but others to fall to their knees in supplication.”

“Two hundred years ago, the Congress of the United States issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation stating that it was ‘the indispensable duty of all nations’ to offer both praise and supplication to God.

Unlike the bulk of Jewish worship, which must be done in public, tehillim are prayers most commonly whispered alone, in private supplication.

But he added that "when a blessing is requested, it is expressing a plea to God for help, a supplication to live better".