⋯ Miscellanea (Ketubot, Art, Essays on Prayer, &c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/miscellanea/ a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:43:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2015-5509b4bdv1_site_icon-250x250.png ⋯ Miscellanea (Ketubot, Art, Essays on Prayer, &c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/miscellanea/ 32 32 Ὑμνεῖν με δεῖ τὸν θεόν | “I Must Praise God,” excerpted from the Discourses of Epictetus https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/i-must-praise-god-excerpted-from-the-discourses-of-epictetus-by-morrison-david-bial/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/i-must-praise-god-excerpted-from-the-discourses-of-epictetus-by-morrison-david-bial/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:55:48 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=32533

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/i-must-praise-god-excerpted-from-the-discourses-of-epictetus-by-morrison-david-bial/feed/ 0 בִּרְכַּת הַקֶּשֶׁת | the Blessing upon observing a Rainbow (with art by Ilene Winn-Lederer) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/meteorological-phenomena/blessing-upon-observing-a-rainbow/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/meteorological-phenomena/blessing-upon-observing-a-rainbow/#respond Fri, 07 Jun 2024 06:18:13 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=56639

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/meteorological-phenomena/blessing-upon-observing-a-rainbow/feed/ 0 להבין את התפלה | Rav Amram Gaon’s letter to Rav Yitzḥok b. Shimon of Sepharad, circa 9th century https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/what-i-learned-from-the-first-page-of-the-first-siddur-by-abe-katz-burei-hatefila-institute/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/what-i-learned-from-the-first-page-of-the-first-siddur-by-abe-katz-burei-hatefila-institute/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:39:57 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=10075

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/what-i-learned-from-the-first-page-of-the-first-siddur-by-abe-katz-burei-hatefila-institute/feed/ 1 הנסים שהיו על הים סוף | The Miracles at the Sea of Reeds as related in Rambam’s commentary on the Pirqei Avot https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/psuqei-dzimrah/shirat-hayam/the-twelve-hued-rainbow-above-the-sea-of-reeds-during-the-miracle-of-its-division-into-twelve-channels-of-liberation/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/psuqei-dzimrah/shirat-hayam/the-twelve-hued-rainbow-above-the-sea-of-reeds-during-the-miracle-of-its-division-into-twelve-channels-of-liberation/#respond Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:21:49 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=57111

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/everyday/daytime/psuqei-dzimrah/shirat-hayam/the-twelve-hued-rainbow-above-the-sea-of-reeds-during-the-miracle-of-its-division-into-twelve-channels-of-liberation/feed/ 0 📄 הגדה לסדר פסח | The Ritual of the Seder and the Agada of the English Jews Before the Expulsion (1287) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/ritual-of-the-seder-and-the-agada-of-the-english-jews-before-the-expulsion/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/ritual-of-the-seder-and-the-agada-of-the-english-jews-before-the-expulsion/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:11:58 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=4609 Etz Chaim, so providentially rescued and preserved for us, never dreamt, when he noted down, in the year 1287, the Ritual and Agada of the Seder Nights according to English usage, that he was fixing a permanent picture of what was doomed to destruction, and was recording not a mere portion of the liturgy, but a page of Jewish history. Faithfully copying his great prototype, Maimonides, the English Chazan also embodied in his work the texts of the Recitations on the Seder Nights in the form customary among his countrymen, and appended the correlated rites according to Minhag England.]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/ritual-of-the-seder-and-the-agada-of-the-english-jews-before-the-expulsion/feed/ 1 A Brief Account of the Jewish Prayers, by Isaac Abendana (1695) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/a-brief-account-of-the-jewish-prayers-by-isaac-abendana-1695/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/a-brief-account-of-the-jewish-prayers-by-isaac-abendana-1695/#respond Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:29:47 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=63152 The Jewish Kalendar, an annual periodical in which was typically appended an article on Jewish history and practice of interest to the work's main audience: Christian Hebraists. Besides a survey of the topic, included in the essay is a translation of the blessing from the Amidah, "Shomeah Tefillah" noting the variations between the Ashkenazi and Sefaradi liturgical customs. ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/a-brief-account-of-the-jewish-prayers-by-isaac-abendana-1695/feed/ 0 On the Legitimacy of Jewish Women’s Prayer, by Leah Horowitz (ca. 1790) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-the-legitimacy-of-jewish-womens-prayer-by-leah-horowitz-ca-1790/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-the-legitimacy-of-jewish-womens-prayer-by-leah-horowitz-ca-1790/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:08:59 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=64638

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-the-legitimacy-of-jewish-womens-prayer-by-leah-horowitz-ca-1790/feed/ 0 📄 Sourcetexts on Jewish Prayer and Spirituality, compiled by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/source-texts-on-jewish-prayer-and-spirituality/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/source-texts-on-jewish-prayer-and-spirituality/#respond Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:58:26 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=5789

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/source-texts-on-jewish-prayer-and-spirituality/feed/ 0 Thoughts on Family Prayer, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1840) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/thoughts-on-family-prayer-by-grace-aguilar-ca-1840/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/thoughts-on-family-prayer-by-grace-aguilar-ca-1840/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 22:45:44 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=51044 Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section "Sacred Communings," pp. 131-150. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 143-163. ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/thoughts-on-family-prayer-by-grace-aguilar-ca-1840/feed/ 0 On Composing Prayers Outside of the Prayerbook, an introduction by Isaac Leeser to “Two Short Prayers” (1851) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-composing-prayers-outside-of-the-prayerbook-a-short-essay-by-isaac-leeser-1851/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-composing-prayers-outside-of-the-prayerbook-a-short-essay-by-isaac-leeser-1851/#respond Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:47:32 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=39164

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-composing-prayers-outside-of-the-prayerbook-a-short-essay-by-isaac-leeser-1851/feed/ 0 Rules of Etiquette for Public Prayer, by Isaac Seligman Baer (1868) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/rules-of-etiquette-for-public-prayer-by-isaac-seligman-baer-1868/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/rules-of-etiquette-for-public-prayer-by-isaac-seligman-baer-1868/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:30:35 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=3276 Shalechei Tzibur [prayer leaders], are either generally unaware of certain basic Laws regarding Public Prayer and Conduct in the Synagogue or simply lax in their proper observance. As such, I felt that there is a need to refresh in the minds of the general public certain fundamental regulations in these areas. I have chosen to translate the prefatory pages relating to these matters from the classic Siddur Avodas Yisroel by Dr. Seligmann Baer, published in Rödelheim in 1868. His summary is terse, yet comprehensive, and very closely aligned with the accepted Halochoh. Although, in those instances where there is a difference from commonly accepted practice and custom, I have tried to augment his text with instructions found in the popular Siddur Tefilas Kol Peh (TKP, Shaliach Tzibur edition, published by Eshkol, Jerusalem, and which was prepared in accordance with the Mishne Berura) and other sources.]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/rules-of-etiquette-for-public-prayer-by-isaac-seligman-baer-1868/feed/ 0 שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari (ca. late 19th – early 20th c. Herat, Afghanistan) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/praxes/shiviti/shiviti-restored-by-andrew-meit-from-the-david-simonsen-manuscripts-collection/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/praxes/shiviti/shiviti-restored-by-andrew-meit-from-the-david-simonsen-manuscripts-collection/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:50:56 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=3425

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/praxes/shiviti/shiviti-restored-by-andrew-meit-from-the-david-simonsen-manuscripts-collection/feed/ 2 Jewish Science and Health — chapter 3: Prayer, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1925) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/jewish-science-and-health-chapter-3-prayer-by-morris-lichtenstein-society-of-jewish-science-1925/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/jewish-science-and-health-chapter-3-prayer-by-morris-lichtenstein-society-of-jewish-science-1925/#respond Sun, 17 Sep 2023 18:46:28 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=52689 Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science (1925), pp. 43-56.]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/jewish-science-and-health-chapter-3-prayer-by-morris-lichtenstein-society-of-jewish-science-1925/feed/ 0 Emma Goldman on “Everybody’s Right to Beautiful, Radiant Things” (1931) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/emma-goldman-on-everybodys-right-to-beautiful-radiant-things-1931/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/emma-goldman-on-everybodys-right-to-beautiful-radiant-things-1931/#respond Fri, 03 May 2024 05:40:47 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=55739

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/emma-goldman-on-everybodys-right-to-beautiful-radiant-things-1931/feed/ 0 ספר רפואת הנפש, פרק ב׳ — תפלה | Sefer Refuat haNefesh — chapter 2: Prayer, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1934) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/sefer-refuat-hanefesh-chapter-2-prayer-by-morris-lichtenstein-1934/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/sefer-refuat-hanefesh-chapter-2-prayer-by-morris-lichtenstein-1934/#respond Wed, 17 May 2023 21:03:03 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=51001

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/sefer-refuat-hanefesh-chapter-2-prayer-by-morris-lichtenstein-1934/feed/ 0 Gebet im Judentum | Prayer in Judaism, by Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck (1935) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/gebet-im-judentum-prayer-in-judaism-by-leo-baeck-1935/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/gebet-im-judentum-prayer-in-judaism-by-leo-baeck-1935/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:25:44 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=54439 Bne Briss (September/October 1935), top of page 82. ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/gebet-im-judentum-prayer-in-judaism-by-leo-baeck-1935/feed/ 0 Das Gebet Als Äußerung Und Einfühlung | Prayer as Expression and Empathy, by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1939) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/das-gebet-als-auserung-und-einfuhlung-von-abraham-joshua-heschel-1939/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/das-gebet-als-auserung-und-einfuhlung-von-abraham-joshua-heschel-1939/#respond Tue, 28 Aug 2018 06:47:01 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=21386 Monatsschrift Für Geschichte Und Wissenschaft Des Judenthums, vol. 83 (1939). ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/das-gebet-als-auserung-und-einfuhlung-von-abraham-joshua-heschel-1939/feed/ 0 On the Good of Prayer, an essay by Lilian Helen Montagu (March 1939) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-the-good-of-prayer-an-essay-by-lilian-helen-montagu-march-1939/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-the-good-of-prayer-an-essay-by-lilian-helen-montagu-march-1939/#respond Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:08:11 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=46414 Lily Montagu: Sermons, Addresses, Letters, and Prayers (ed. Ellen M. Umansky, 1985), pp. 51-54. ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-the-good-of-prayer-an-essay-by-lilian-helen-montagu-march-1939/feed/ 0 “Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1945) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1945/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1945/#respond Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:18:00 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=21256 Review of Religion vol. 9 no. 2, January 1945.]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1945/feed/ 0 Primary sources in open-source Judaism: Rabbi Yitsḥoq Hutner’s Paḥad Yitzḥoq, Rosh haShanah Ma’amar Bet https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/open-source-judaism/source-texts/primary-sources-in-open-source-judaism-rabbi-yitzchok-hutners-pahad-yitzhok-rosh-hashana-maamar-bet/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/open-source-judaism/source-texts/primary-sources-in-open-source-judaism-rabbi-yitzchok-hutners-pahad-yitzhok-rosh-hashana-maamar-bet/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:28:07 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=12113 Open Source Judaism in Jewish source texts, we have made a transcription of Rabbi Ally Ehrman's shiur (lesson) explaining Rabbi Yitsḥoq Hutner's ראש השנה מאמר ב "Rosh Hashana Ma'amar 2" (circa 1950s) published in Paḥad Yitsḥoq, (a compendium of Rabbi Hutner's teachings from the 1950s until his death in 1983). The ma'amar is an explication of the verse in Proverbs and familiar to anyone that sings Eyshet Ḥayil before the Sabbath evening meal, "She opens her mouth with wisdom, and a loving-kind Torah is on her tongue," (Proverbs 31:26). The ma'amar weaves ideas by the Maharal from Gevurot Hashem (6:4) commenting on the gemarah in Talmud Bavli Sukkah 49b that the meaning of Torat Ḥesed (loving-kind torah) is a torah learned with the intention of being retransmitted. Via the MaHaRaL, Rabbi Hutner teaches that this effort in giving is an act of loving-kindness whereby a new work is made freely and shared completely without any diminution of the source, the giver, or the recipient. ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/open-source-judaism/source-texts/primary-sources-in-open-source-judaism-rabbi-yitzchok-hutners-pahad-yitzhok-rosh-hashana-maamar-bet/feed/ 0 “The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1953) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/the-spirit-of-jewish-prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1953/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/the-spirit-of-jewish-prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1953/#respond Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:08:02 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=21135 Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly of America v.17. ]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/the-spirit-of-jewish-prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1953/feed/ 0 Introduction [to the Siddur], by Rabbi Dr. Israel Wolf Slotki (1964) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/introduction-to-the-siddur-by-israel-wolf-slotki-1964/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/introduction-to-the-siddur-by-israel-wolf-slotki-1964/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:57:20 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=28477

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/introduction-to-the-siddur-by-israel-wolf-slotki-1964/feed/ 0 “On Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1969) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1969/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1969/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:20:54 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=21124

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/on-prayer-by-abraham-joshua-heschel-1969/feed/ 2 📰 “Color-Coded Prayerbook Devised by Rabbi” (Martin Lauer, Springfield Republican 1972) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/the-open-siddur-project/press-and-research-articles/color-coded-prayerbook-devised-by-rabbi-jacob-freedman-springfield-republican-1972/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/the-open-siddur-project/press-and-research-articles/color-coded-prayerbook-devised-by-rabbi-jacob-freedman-springfield-republican-1972/#respond Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:15:26 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=1346

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/the-open-siddur-project/press-and-research-articles/color-coded-prayerbook-devised-by-rabbi-jacob-freedman-springfield-republican-1972/feed/ 0 📰 “Database Davvenen” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (circa mid-1980s) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/the-open-siddur-project/press-and-research-articles/database-davvenen-by-reb-zalman-schachter-shalomi-havurah/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/the-open-siddur-project/press-and-research-articles/database-davvenen-by-reb-zalman-schachter-shalomi-havurah/#comments Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:06:12 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=7665

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/meta-topics/the-open-siddur-project/press-and-research-articles/database-davvenen-by-reb-zalman-schachter-shalomi-havurah/feed/ 1 Prayers that Hurt: Public Prayer in Interfaith Settings, by Rabbi Chaplain (Captain) Arnold E. Resnicoff, USN, Ret. (1987, 2009) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/prayers-that-hurt-public-prayer-in-interfaith-settings-by-arnold-resnicoff-2009/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/prayers-that-hurt-public-prayer-in-interfaith-settings-by-arnold-resnicoff-2009/#respond Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:58:12 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=23749

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/prayers-that-hurt-public-prayer-in-interfaith-settings-by-arnold-resnicoff-2009/feed/ 0 Meaning What We Pray, Praying What We Mean: The Otherness of the Liturgy, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (1989) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/meaning-what-we-pray-praying-what-we-mean-the-otherness-of-the-liturgy-by-joshua-gutoff-1989/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/meaning-what-we-pray-praying-what-we-mean-the-otherness-of-the-liturgy-by-joshua-gutoff-1989/#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:30:17 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=49004 Conservative Judaism, Vol. 42(2), Winter 1989-90, pp. 12-20.]]>

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/meaning-what-we-pray-praying-what-we-mean-the-otherness-of-the-liturgy-by-joshua-gutoff-1989/feed/ 0 Concerning Intolerance of New Practices in Jewish Prayer, by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1989) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/for-intolerance-regarding-new-practices-in-prayer/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/for-intolerance-regarding-new-practices-in-prayer/#respond Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:17:16 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=5480

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/traditions/for-intolerance-regarding-new-practices-in-prayer/feed/ 0 Kavvana: Directing the Heart in Jewish Prayer, by Rabbi Dr. Seth Kadish (1997) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/praxes/davvening/kavvana-directing-the-heart-in-jewish-prayer-by-seth-kadish-1997/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/praxes/davvening/kavvana-directing-the-heart-in-jewish-prayer-by-seth-kadish-1997/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2019 04:15:09 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=25888

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/praxes/davvening/kavvana-directing-the-heart-in-jewish-prayer-by-seth-kadish-1997/feed/ 2 Blessings and Ethics: The Spiritual Life of Justice, a dvar tefillah on berakhot by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (1997) https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/blessings-and-ethics-the-spiritual-life-of-justice-a-dvar-tefillah-on-berakhot-by-joshua-gutoff-1997/ https://opensiddur.org/miscellanea/pedagogy/blessings-and-ethics-the-spiritual-life-of-justice-a-dvar-tefillah-on-berakhot-by-joshua-gutoff-1997/#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:13:12 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=49203

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