
An introduction to the Siddur, by scholar and translator Israel Wolf Slotki (1884–1973). . . .
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☞ Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer
![]() Shared on י״ג בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-11) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() Shared on ה׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ה (2015-06-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() 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. . . . ![]() Shared on י״ג בניסן ה׳תשע״ח (2018-03-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() Shared on כ״ט באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-10) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() Shared on ג׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() “The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel was a speech given at the Fifty-Third Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America which took place at the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey from Tammuz 9 to Tammuz 14, 5713 (June 22 To June 27, 1953). The speech was subsequently published in the Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly of America v.17. . . . ![]() Shared on י׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-21) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() Shared on ט״ז באלול ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-27) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() Shared on י״ג באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-02-17) — under the following terms: Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() ![]() Shared on כ״ט בסיון ה׳תשע״ט (2019-07-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() Shared on ט׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ג (2013-01-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() A few select source texts on prayer and davvenen of importance to Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman. . . . ![]() Shared on א׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() Shared on י״ט באלול ה׳תשע״א (2011-09-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: ![]() Tags: ![]() We are grateful to Amit Gvaryahu for sharing his sourcesheets for his Siddur class at Yeshivat Hadar’s 90@190 Open Beit Midrash this past summer 5771/2011, and for sharing his translations with a CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. . . . |
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