Siddur Hatefillah : : The Jewish Prayer Book. Philosophy, Poetry, and Mystery / / Eliezer Schweid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Schweid, Eliezer,
• MitwirkendeR: Greenberg, Gershon,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (514 p.)

Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely recognized 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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. The Keriyat Shema: The 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 Ḥaninat 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 -- Glossary -- Index -- INDEX LOCORUM