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tagged: communal prayer 
Contributor(s): Elie Kaunfer
Shared on ל׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ו (2016-03-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Cacophany
Tags:  mumbling, drone, communal prayer 
The mode of silently reading prayers puts the worshiper in the realm of the cognitive—just as we might experience reading a book on the subway. But the act of mumbling moves from a purely cognitive experience to a more viscerally emotional act. The aesthetic effect of this mumbling serves a dual purpose: Besides its own value as a way of engaging in prayer, it provides a contrast to the truly silent parts of the prayer: the Amidah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Abraham Joshua Heschel
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: Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer
Tags: 20th century C.E., North America, Know Before Whom You Stand, communal prayer, 58th century A.M., Essays on Prayer as Praxis, Private Prayer, American Judaism 
“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. . . . |
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