GEN1207 How can you identify successful prayer? It might bring a renewed commitment to values or righteous action. It may bring fresh insight and perspective, or provide a fresh experience of your connection to the larger wholeness of the world, to the Jewish people and/or to the community. It may create an inner calm and/or connect you to God’s presence. Prayer that goes beyond keva (the required structure and words) to kavana (intentionality, directedness, mental focus) will have spiritual significance. … The earliest examples of prayer in Jewish tradition are original, private cries from the heat.   Rebekah cries out to God during a difficult pregnancy with twins who seem to wrestle within her. AGTJL 47