A translation and annotation  by Rabbi Yair Hoffman The Tur (OC 111) cites the Talmud Yerushalmi in Brachos 1:1:  Said Rabbi Ami, “Whoever does not connect Geulah to Tefillah – the after blessing of Shma of redemption to Shmoneh Esreh – to what is he compared?  He is compared to an admirer-friend of the king […]