ISBN:
9781644698662
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (514 p.)
Year of publication:
2022
Keywords:
RELIGION / Prayer
;
Jewish Prayer Book
;
Jewish thought
;
Torah
;
prayer
;
prophecy
;
psalms
;
scriptural and rabbinic sources
;
Judentum
;
Siddur
;
Spiritualität
Abstract:
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
Note:
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
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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
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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
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13. The Shemoneh Esrei—Responding in Anticipation of Complete Redemption
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14. Types of Biblical Poetry as a Source of Prayer
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15. Between the Poetry of Prophecy and Prayer
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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
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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
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781644698662
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