Parshas Korach

Liyluy Nishmas Elchonon Tzvi ben R' Yisroel Menachem, Zekaini Moiri R' Baruch Moshe Aryeh ben Harav Zev Yehuda, my cousin Zev Yehuda ben Rav Shmuel Mordechai, Avraham ben R' Yitzchak Zev, R' Dovid Meir ben R' Shmuel...

 In Perek tes zayin posuk tes vav during the uprising of Korach and his followers the posuk says " Vayichar l'Moshe M'od vayomer el Hashem al teifen el minchasam, lo chamor exhad meihem nasaasi v'lo hareiosi es achad meihem" "This distressed Moshe greatly and he said to Hashem, do not turn to (accept) their gift offering, I have not taken a donkey from any one of them, nor have I wronged any one of them."
 Rashi explains that according to pashut pshat what Moshe was asking Hashem not to accept was the kitores that Korach was going to bring the following day.

 Both groups had agreed that each person would bring their own fire pan, and if whichever ones Hashem accepted would prove that they were correct.

Says the Alter from Kelm ztl (quoted by Rav Yaakov Neiman Ztl) we can learn from this how powerful Tefila is. Moshe Rabeinu had to daven a specific tefila to beseech Hashem not to accept the ketores (in other words the avoda and tefilla)  of Korach and his followers. He had to beg Hashem not to accept it even though accepting it would cause Moshe to be overthrown and the Torah would have been thrown out. Still Moshe was fearful of the power of their Tefilla and therefore davened for Hashem not to accept it.

 If such Tefillos are so powerful, just imagine the tefillos that we are mispallel for the yeshua and refuah of our brethren individually and as a whole. We can not even fathom that impact that it has and what it may be changing in Shomayim. True some times we feel like our tefillos were not heard, but that is never the case. Every Tefilla is so so powerful and extremely valuable to our father in Heaven. We may not see the affect that it has but we can rest assured that the tears tefillas and bakashas did not go unnoticed..
Good Shabbos