One statement in Wittgenstein illustrates simply, in my opinion the nature of prayer and its complexity:- "...Try the following experiment: Say a sentence, perhaps "The weather is very fine today", right, and now think the thought of the sentence, but unadulterated, without the sentence..." Wittgenstein Philosophical Grammar Part: Proposition and its sense VII page 155 This 'experiment shows that language carries the thought without any possibility of the 'thought' being conveyed as a 'separate thing', apart from the sentence that conveys it. The thought can only be conveyed by the sentence structure . Since the 'separate' thought conveyed by this sentence is unknowable in and of itself it points to 'thought' as not defined by the grammar but rather 'carried' by it, however since the thought itself cannot be conceived (by the thinker) without the carrier the 'carrier' ie the sentence can logically be thought of as the genesis of thought rather than the speaker. In this tautology lies the concept of spoken prayer, which is generating the thought at the same time it is spoken irrespective of the speaker. The grammatical structures are the means to convey meaning, but they can also be conceived of as 'generators' of 'meaning, in and of themselves, and indeed the 'thought' conveyed cannot be conceived without the grammatical structure that conveys it. This observation of Wittgenstein points to what Kabbalists knew long ago that the 'grammar' of 'sense' is the underpinning of Creation. In the same way as we cannot conceive of the 'thought' [ie G_d] behind 'let there be light' divorced from its structure, and that structure is the very 'creation itself. This also points to the Torah as what it is essentially, a means to convey creation itself, not through the 'thought' of G_d but rather through the grammatical structures that underpin existence and the 'creation' itself, the linchpin of this is the Hebrew language itself and its fusion of numerical, and grammatical 'conveyance ability which is well explored in:- Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrew, by Haim Shore.

The thought of G_d cannot be conceived apart from the grammar that conveys it,