ISBN:
0881257710
,
9780881257717
Language:
English
Pages:
xxx, 197 Seiten
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2003
Series Statement:
Meotzar horav Volume 2
Series Statement:
Meotzar Horav series
DDC:
296.45
Keywords:
Shema
;
Prayer Judaism
;
Shema
;
Prayer ; Judaism
;
Religion ; Judaism
;
Judentum
;
Gebet
Abstract:
"When I Speak about the Philosophy of Prayer" --1.Prayer and the Media of Religious Experience --2.Prayer, Petition and Crisis --3.Human Condition and Prayer --4.Exaltation of God and Redeeming the Aesthetic --5.Absence of God and the Community of Prayer --6.Intention (Kavvanah) in Reading Shema and in Prayer --7.Essence of Shema: Unity of God, Love of God, and the Study of His Law --8.Immanence and Transcendence: Comments on Birkat Yotzer Or --9.Accepting the Yoke of Heaven --10.Reflections on the Amidah.
Abstract:
The Rav here explores the crucial interface between living religious experience and halakhic norms. He analyzes the Amidah, the Shema and other liturgical texts, and considers the tension between human dependence and exaltation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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