The Way into Jewish Prayer

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ISBN: 9781580232012 | 1580232019
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/2004

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The Way Into ... Series offers an accessible and highly usable "guided tour" of the Jewish faith, people, history, and beliefs -- in total, an introduction to Judaism that will enable you to understand and interact with the sacred texts of the Jewish tradition. Each volume is written by a leading contemporary scholar and teacher, and explores one key aspect of Judaism. The Way Into ... enables all readers to achieve a real sense of Jewish cultural literacy through guided study. Book jacket.

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1. God and the Jewish People: To Whom Jews Pray

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Surprisingly, prayer is mostly not about petitioning an all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing deity to grant our wishes. Provides a foundation for thinking deeply about what prayer is, along with a spectrum of modern Jewish thinkers' views on the nature of the God to whom we pray.

2. Prayer as Discipline and as Art: How Prayer Works

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Jewish prayer takes place spontaneously or in fixed form; in the synagogue, at home, or through blessings designed to greet the miracle of the sacred along the way.

3. The Synagogue Sanctuary: What's What and Why It Is So

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Everything in a synagogue-from the ark to the reader's desk-has a history, as well as a symbolism that points all the way back to the desert wanderings of the Israelites and the First Temple built by King Solomon some three thousand years ago.

4. The Community at Prayer: Who's Who and What They Do

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The nature of the Jewish community at worship. Explores the principles of prayer in Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Judaism, and why the various denominations have different views on some things yet agree on others.

5. The Ideas of Jewish Prayer: What Matters Most

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Prayer makes a difference in how we live our lives, because it is a distilled and ritualized reminder of the things that are great, noble, and worth living for. Delves into the great truths of Jewish tradition-about God, human nature, the cosmos, and what we most hope happens at the end of time-as they are found in the prayer book.

6. A Prayerful Person at Home and on the Way: When the Ordinary Can Be Sacred

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How we can become prayerful people who appreciate the miracles of daily life, greet the world with blessings, appreciate the "feel" of the year's different seasons, and build a life filled with moments of mystery.

Notes

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Glossary

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Suggestions for Further Reading

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Index

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About Jewish Lights Publishing

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The Way into Jewish Prayer

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