Hebrew University Professor and Israel Prize recipient Emeritus Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022), widely recognized a one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era, probes texts of the Jewish prayer book which process religious philosophical teaching into the language of prayer. With the addition of historical, philological, and literary contexts, the volume provides the reader with first-time access to the comprehensive meaning of prayer-filling a vacuum in the experience and scholarship of Jewish worship.
Hebrew University Professor and Israel Prize recipient Emeritus Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022), widely recognized a one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era, probes texts of the Jewish prayer book which process religious philosophical teaching into the language of prayer. With the addition of historical, philological, and literary contexts, the volume provides the reader with first-time access to the comprehensive meaning of prayer-filling a vacuum in the experience and scholarship of Jewish worship.
Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) was widely recognized as one of the foremost historians of Jewish thought of this era. He was Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University and an Israel Prize recipient. Gershon Greenberg is a visiting professor in the history of Jewish religious thought through the Holocaust at Hebrew and Bar Ilan universities in Israel. He is based at American University in Washington, D.C. where he created and directed the Jewish Studies Program and serves as Professor of Philosophy and Religion.
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Translator s Acknowledgements Translator s Introduction: Eliezer Schweid as Worshipper in the State of Israel Author s Preface: My Path to the Jewish Prayer Book (Siddur Hatefillah) Introduction: The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book): Its Sources, Goal, and Theological Basis 1. Worship of God and the Process of the Sacred Congregation s Formation and Expression 2. Prayer as a Form of Primal Expression of the Human Soul 3. Torah and Prayer: The Problem of Love and Sin in the Relations between God and the Human Being 4. The Name and Kingship Blessing as the Fundamental Rubric of Standing before God in Prayer 5. Establishing the Covenant of Faith between the Individual Human Being and His God 6. Principles of Faith 7. Keriyat Shema Covenant of Love between God and His People 8. The Poetics of the Shema and the Shemoneh Esrei 9. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: The Kedushah (Sanctification) and aninat Hadäat (God as Giver of Knowledge) 10. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer Requests by the Individual in the Assembly: Teshuvah (Repentance) and Forgiveness 11. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: Redemption, Healing, and Livelihood 12. The Shemoneh Esrei (Eighteen Benedictions) That Are Really Nineteen: Redemption from Deepening Exile 13. The Shemoneh Esrei Responding in Anticipation of Complete Redemption 14. Types of Biblical Poetry as a Source of Prayer 15. Between the Poetry of Prophecy and Prayer 16. The Poetry of the Psalms: Personal-Soulful and Societal-Political Messages 17. Hymnal Song for the Sabbath Day. The Sign between God and His Treasured Nation and the Isolation from Christianity 18. Breaking the Boundary of Mystery between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Earth: Praying with Devekut (Adherence) and with Kavanah (Intention) Epilogue: The Universality and Perpetuity of Moving from Slavery to Freedom and from Exile to Redemption Glossary Index
Translator s Acknowledgements Translator s Introduction: Eliezer Schweid as Worshipper in the State of Israel Author s Preface: My Path to the Jewish Prayer Book (Siddur Hatefillah) Introduction: The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book): Its Sources, Goal, and Theological Basis 1. Worship of God and the Process of the Sacred Congregation s Formation and Expression 2. Prayer as a Form of Primal Expression of the Human Soul 3. Torah and Prayer: The Problem of Love and Sin in the Relations between God and the Human Being 4. The Name and Kingship Blessing as the Fundamental Rubric of Standing before God in Prayer 5. Establishing the Covenant of Faith between the Individual Human Being and His God 6. Principles of Faith 7. Keriyat Shema Covenant of Love between God and His People 8. The Poetics of the Shema and the Shemoneh Esrei 9. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: The Kedushah (Sanctification) and aninat Hadäat (God as Giver of Knowledge) 10. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer Requests by the Individual in the Assembly: Teshuvah (Repentance) and Forgiveness 11. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: Redemption, Healing, and Livelihood 12. The Shemoneh Esrei (Eighteen Benedictions) That Are Really Nineteen: Redemption from Deepening Exile 13. The Shemoneh Esrei Responding in Anticipation of Complete Redemption 14. Types of Biblical Poetry as a Source of Prayer 15. Between the Poetry of Prophecy and Prayer 16. The Poetry of the Psalms: Personal-Soulful and Societal-Political Messages 17. Hymnal Song for the Sabbath Day. The Sign between God and His Treasured Nation and the Isolation from Christianity 18. Breaking the Boundary of Mystery between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Earth: Praying with Devekut (Adherence) and with Kavanah (Intention) Epilogue: The Universality and Perpetuity of Moving from Slavery to Freedom and from Exile to Redemption Glossary Index
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