Eliezer Schweid

Siddur Hatefillah (eBook, ePUB)

The Jewish Prayer Book. Philosophy, Poetry, and Mystery
Übersetzer: Greenberg, Gershon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely regarded as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era. In Siddur Hatefillah, he probes the Jewish prayer book as a reflection of Judaism's unity and continuity as a unique spiritual entity; and as the most popular, most uttered, and internalized text of the Jewish people. Schweid explores texts which process religious philosophical teaching into the language of prayer, and/or express philosophical ideas in prayer's special language - which the worshipper reflects upon in order to direct prayer, and through which flows hoped-for feedback. With the addition of historical, philological, and literary contexts, the study provides the reader with first-time access to the comprehensive meaning of Jewish prayer-filling a vacuum in both the experience and scholarship of Jewish worship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644698679
• Artikelnr.: 63720619

Autorenporträt

Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) was Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He published over forty books in general and specific areas of Jewish thought of all periods, and commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. He was the recipient of the distinguished Israel Prize and two honorary doctorates.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Hada'at (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