New PDF release: Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-by-Prayer

By Arnold Rosenberg

ISBN-10: 0765761343

ISBN-13: 9780765761347

ISBN-10: 1568219717

ISBN-13: 9781568219714

Readers of this e-book will emerge with a brand new information of what we as Jews are doing once we pray, why we're doing it, how we're speculated to be suffering from prayer, how the prayers got here to be as they're this present day, and the way they range one of the significant hobbies of yankee Judaism.
The conventional Jewish liturgy, if effectively understood, is a deep and strong procedure for non secular transformation. even if, religious intensity of prayer has been gradually decreased during the last 2000 years because the underlying currents of the Siddur, the Jewish prayerbook, were misplaced to nearly all of worshippers. This publication explains the Jewish liturgy prayer by way of prayer, based on what, within the context of old and medieval Judaism, used to be its raison d'‚tre: a constitution for remodeling one's brain and lifestyle.

The writer writes: "The quandary Judaism now faces, whereas real, is due to not an absence of intensity within the conventional Jewish prayer carrier, yet to a profound and virtually common lack of knowledge of that prayer carrier that pervades all segments of the Jewish neighborhood. Jewish prayer companies in lots of modern synagogues lack religious fervor as the linkage among be aware and formality, at the one hand, and psychological transformation at the different, that will generate such fervor isn't really usually recognized to Jewish adults and isn't taught to Jewish childrens. regrettably, the prayer provider frequently degenerates right into a race via phrases and gestures divorced from the series of psychological states and visualizations during which those phrases and gestures have been meant to guide us."

This booklet was once written to reunite the job and language of prayer with its unique transformative aim, through instructing worshippers approximately what's on the middle of the siddur. a number of chapters offer an outline of the Jewish prayer carrier and its non secular circulation. those chapters clarify the visualizations, allusions, and meditative options that shape the guts of the carrier and the altered states of cognizance by which the provider ca

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