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

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

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 spiritu...

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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]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (514 p.)
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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

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