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Joshua Gutoff  Joshua GutoffRabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, and later received a Doctorate in Jewish Education there, writing on Talmud education and the development of the moral imagination. A writer and teacher, he lives in Philadelphia. Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Tag על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh | עלינו Aleinu | baby daughters | ברכות brakhot | ceremony | Conservative Judaism | Constructivism | English Translation | Essays on Prayer as Praxis | infants | interpretive translation | Late Antiquity | liturgical theory | liturgy and ethics | Mask Making | naming | naming ceremonies | North America | Parents blessing children | particularism and universalism | Rosh Hashanah | teaching prayer | tolerance of difference | צדקה tsedaqah | weltanschauung | why prayer | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Resources filtered by TAG: “Mask Making” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? Masking the Liturgy: a pedagogy for learning the Siddur, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (2003)Contributed by Joshua Gutoff | ❧ I wanted my students to start thinking of prayers as expressions of an interior world, rather than as descriptions of the exterior one. I suggested to them that they think of a prayer as a kind of mask, much like the ones worn in religious rituals by many peoples. The job of the mask-wearer is to discover the reality on the “inside” of the mask and bring it to life. . . . | ||
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