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🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Liturgical traditions  Pedagogical Essays on Jewish PrayerThis is an archive of diverse thoughts on the significance and practice of Jewish prayer as a spiritual practice in general but also as expressed in certain specific contexts. ☞ Have you written an essay which adds to this discourse, or which concisely outlines the range of ideas and opinions? Upload it here. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Grace Aguilar | Leo Baeck | Morrison David Bial | Epictetus the Stoic | Emma Goldman | Joshua Gutoff | Amit Gvaryahu | David Weiss Halivni | Abraham Joshua Heschel | Seth (Avi) Kadish | Isaac Leeser (translation) | Morris Lichtenstein | Lilian Helen Montagu | Peter W. Ochs (translation) | Arnold E. Resnicoff | Israel Wolf Slotki | Mordechai Torczyner | Unknown (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation) | Shoshana Michael Zucker Filter resources by Tag affirmations | American Jewry of the United States | American Judaism | political and religious anarchism | Antiquity | ברכות brakhot | Breath | British Jewry | communal prayer | Community | Conservative Judaism | Constructivism | Divine Names | English vernacular prayer | entering magical territory | Essays on Prayer as Praxis | family prayers | first person | Freedom | Genizah | girsot | הדר Hadar | Humanist | illustration | imagination | Ineffable Name | interfaith prayer | introducing Jewish prayer | introducing the Siddur | Jewish liberation | Jewish Science movement | Jewish women | כוונות kavvanot | דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand | Liberal | liberation | liberation from mitsrayim | liturgical theory | liturgy and ethics | Mask Making | Music | Needing Proofreading | non-dual theology | North America | Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael | personal prayer | prayers of military chaplains | Private Prayer | private worship | Rashbam | reference works | Shem Havaya | Silence | sourcesheet | Stoicism | teaching prayer | teḥinot in English | Tetragrammaton | the Holocaust | צדקה tsedaqah | weltanschauung | why prayer | Words | 1st century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 39th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category Davvening | Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Day Readings | 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) | Kristallnacht (9-10 November, 16 Marḥeshvan) | 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust | Roleplaying | Second Temple Period | Sefirat ha-Omer | Visual Meditation | 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan) Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time? Amid the meditation of mountains, the humility of flowers—wiser than all alphabets—clouds that die constantly for the sake of beauty, we are hating, hunting, hurting. Suddenly we feel ashamed of our clashes and complaints in the face of the tacit greatness in nature. It is so embarrassing to live! How strange we are in the world, and how presumptuous our doings! Only one response can maintain us: gratefulness for witnessing the wonder, for the gift of our unearned right to serve, to adore, and to fulfill. It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
--R' Abraham Joshua Heschel, "The Holy Dimension" in Moral Audacity and Spiritual Grandeur, p.341 (This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)
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The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.
ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17
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