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A Guide to Jewish Prayer

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
Englisch
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouperschienen am05.03.2002
For both the novice and for those who have been engaged in prayer for years, here is the one guide needed to practice Jewish prayer and understand the prayer book, from one of the world's most famous and respected rabbis.

From the origins and meaning of worship to a step-by-step explanation of the daily prayers to the reason you're not supposed to chat with your friends during services, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz answers many of the questions likely to arise about Jewish prayer. Here are chapters on daily prayer; Sabbath prayer; prayer services for the holidays; the yearly cycle of synagogue Bible readings; the history and makeup of the synagogue; the different prayer rites for Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Yemenites, and other cultural/geographic groupings; the role of the rabbi and the cantor in the synagogue; and the role of music in the service.mehr

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KlappentextFor both the novice and for those who have been engaged in prayer for years, here is the one guide needed to practice Jewish prayer and understand the prayer book, from one of the world's most famous and respected rabbis.

From the origins and meaning of worship to a step-by-step explanation of the daily prayers to the reason you're not supposed to chat with your friends during services, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz answers many of the questions likely to arise about Jewish prayer. Here are chapters on daily prayer; Sabbath prayer; prayer services for the holidays; the yearly cycle of synagogue Bible readings; the history and makeup of the synagogue; the different prayer rites for Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Yemenites, and other cultural/geographic groupings; the role of the rabbi and the cantor in the synagogue; and the role of music in the service.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-8052-1147-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2002
Erscheinungsdatum05.03.2002
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 135 mm, Höhe 203 mm, Dicke 30 mm
Gewicht476 g
Artikel-Nr.13650443

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction  /  xvii
 
PART ONE • Prayer
 
CHAPER 1. The Prayer Book  /  3
 
CHAPTER 2. The Essence of Prayer  /  8
 
CHAPTER 3. Individual and Communal Prayer   /  14
The Nature of Communal Prayer  /  15
The Communality of Prayer  /  18
Individuality of Prayer  /  19
The Meaning of Communal Prayer  /  22
Individual Prayer Within Communal Prayer  /  24
  
CHAPTER 4. Men and Women  /  26
The Commandment to Pray Applies to All  /  26
Differences in the Concept of Prayer  /  26
Historical Causes  /  28
 Women's Prayer Texts  /  30
The Women's Gallery (Ezrat Nashim)  /  31
 
CHAPTER 5. Kavvanah  /  34
The Importance of Kavvanah  /  34
Levels of Kavvanah  /  35
Kavvanah and the Regularity of Prayer  /  38
Achieving Kavvanah  /  40
 
PART TWO • History
 
CHAPTER 6. The History of the Siddur  /  47
The Creation of Standard Prayer Texts  /  48
Prayer in Mishnaic and Talmudic Times  /  51
Liturgical Poets and Devotional Poetry (Piyyut)  /  53
Suddurim and Mahzorim  /  57
The Influence of the Kabbalah  /  58
Recent Generations  /  61
 
CHAPTER 7. Prayer Rites  /  62
Antiquity of the Prayer Rites  /  63
Justification for the Different Prayer Rites  /  64
Prayer Rites Today  /  66
        Nusa Ashkenaz-The Ashkenazic Rite  /  66
        Nusa Sepharad-The Sephardic (Hasidic) Rite  /  69
        The Oriental (Sephardic) Rite  /  71
        The Yemenite Rite  /  73
        The Italian Rite  /  75
Extinct Prayer Rites  /  77
 
PART THREE • The Order of Prayer Services
 
CHAPTER 8. Weekday Prayer Services  /  83
Prayer and the Life Cycle  /  83
The Daily Prayers  /  84
        Tikkun azot  /  84
        The Shararit Service  /  86
        The Minah Prayer  /  96
        The Ma'ariv (Arvit) Prayer Service  /  98
        Shema Upon Retiring to Bed  /  101
 
CHAPTER 9. Shabbat  /  104
The Order of the Shabbat Day  /  105
Shabbat Prayer Services  /  107
         The Friday Minah Prayer  /  107
         Kabbalat Shabbat-The Reception of Shabbat  /  107
         The Shabbat Ma'ariv Service  /  110
         The Shaarit Service  /  112
         Torah Reading  /  114
         The Musaf Service  /  115
         The Minah Service  /  116
         The Ma'ariv Service on Motza'ei Shabbat ("The Conclusion of Shabbat")  /  118
The Departure of Shabbat  /  119
         The Havdalah Ceremony  /  120
         After the Havdalah  /  123
Shabbat Meals  /  124
         The Kiddush of Shabbat Eve, and the First Shabbat Meal  /  126
         Preparations for the Kiddush  /  127
         Some of the Laws and Customs of the Kiddush  /  128
         The Second and Third Shabbat Meals  /  130
         Study on Shabbat Afternoon  /  131
         Melaveh Malkah  /  132
Special Sabbaths  /  133
        Shabbat Mervarkhim  /  133
        Shabbat Rosh odesh  /  134
        Shabbat That Falls on Festival Days  /  136
        Shabbat ol ha-Mo'ed  /  137
        Shabbat of anukkah  /  139
        Shabbat Rosh odesh on anukkah  /  140
        The Arba Parshiyyot ("Four Portions")  /  140
        Shabbat on Days When Taanun Is Not Recited  /  142
        Shabbat ha-Gadol  /  142
        Shabbat Teshuvah (Shuvah)  /  143
        The Sabbaths of Evil Dispensation  /  144
        The Sabbaths of Comfort  /  144
        Other Sabbaths  /  145
 
CHAPTER 10. Festivals  /  146
Festival Days  /  146
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals  /  147
The Second Days in the Diaspora  /  148
Festival Prayers in General  /  150
        The Ma'ariv Service  /  150
        The Shaarit Service  /  153
        Torah Readings  /  153
        The Musaf Service  /  154
        The Minah Service  /  155
        Conclusion of the Festival  /  156
The Pesa Festival  /  156
        The Beginning of the Pesa Festival  /  156
        The Pesa Seder  /  157
        The Shaarit Service  /  161
        The Musaf Service  /  162
        The Minah and the Ma'ariv Services  /  162
        The Second Day of Pesa (in the Diaspora)  /  162
        The Seventh Day of Pesa  /  163
        The Last Day of Pesa (in the Diaspora)  /  164
The Shavu'ot Festival  /  165
        Shavu'ot Prayer Services  /  166
        The Second Day of Shavu'ot (in the Diaspora)  /  168
The Sukkot Festival  /  168
        Sukkot Prayer Services  /  170
        The Second Day of Sukkot (in the Diaspora)  /  171
        Shemini Atzeret and Simat Torah  /  172
        Shemini Atzeret (in the Diaspora)  /  173
        Simat Torah  /  174
 
CHAPTER 11. Days of Awe  /  177
Rosh ha-Shanah-The New Year Festival  /  178
        The Minah Service on Rosh ha-Shanah Eve  /  180
        The Ma'ariv Service  /  180
        Kiddush and the Festive Meal  /  182
        The Shaarit Service  /  183
        Torah Readings  /  184
        Teki'ot-The Blowing of the Shofar  /  185
        The Musaf Service  /  188
        The Minah Service  /  192
        Tashlikh  /  192
        The Second Day of Rosh ha-Shanah  /  192
        Prayer Services on the Second Day of Rosh ha-Shanah  /  194
Yom Kippur-The Day of Atonement  /  195
        Yom Kippur Eve  /  197
        Kol Nidrei  /  198
        The Ma'ariv Service  /  201
        The Shaarit Service  /  203
        Torah Readings  /  204
        The Musaf Service  /  205
        The Minah Service  /  207
        The Ne'ilah Service  /  208
        Conclusion of the Festival  /  211
 
CHAPTER 12. Special Days  /  213
Rosh odesh-The New Moon  /  213
ol ha-Mo'ed-The Intermediate Days of a Festival  /  217
        ol ha-Mo'ed of Pesa  /  219
        ol ha-Mo'ed of Sukkot  /  220
        osha'na Rabbah  /  221
        Shabbat ol ha-Mo'ed  /  222
Hanukkah  /  222
        Rosh odesh During Hanukkah  /  225
Purim  /  225
         Shushan Purim  /  227
Fast Days  /  229
         The Ninth of Av (Tish'ah be-Av)  /  229
         Memorial Fast Days  /  233
         The Twentieth of Sivan-A Fast Day of Remembrance  /  236
         Fast Days for Repentance and Atonement  /  237
         Other Fixed Fast Days  /  239
         Nonfixed Fast Day  /  240
Special Time Perios  /  243
         The Ten Days of Repentance  /  243
         The Month of Nisan  /  244
         The Counting of the Omer  /  244
         The Three Weeks (Bein ha-Meitzarim)  /  245
         The Month of Elul  /  245
Days of Joy  /  246
         Local Purims  /  247
         Lag ba-Omier-The Thirty-third Day of the Omer Period  /  247
         The Day of Independence and Jerusalem Day  /  248
         Other Days When Taanun Is Not Recited  /  249
 
CHAPTER 13. Torah Readings  /  253
The Cycle of Torah Readings  /  254
Taking the Torah Scrolls Out of the Ark  /  256
The Order of Calling Up to the Torah  /  258
Blessings for the Torah  /  260
Torah-Reading Customs  /  263
Hagbahah ("Raising") and Gelilah ("Winding") of the Torah Scroll  /  265
Returning the Torah Scrools to the Ark  /  267
The People Called Up to the Torah Reading  /  268
The Torah Scroll  /  270
Wrappings and Decorations of the Torah Scroll  /  274
The Pointer (Yad)  /  276
Cantillation of the Torah Reading (Ta'amei he-Mikra)  /  277
         Emperor Accents  /  279
         King Accents  /  279
         Minister Accents  /  280
 
PART FOUR • The Synagogue and Communal Prayer  
 
CHAPTER 14. The Synagogue  /  285
Ancient Origins of the Synagogue  /  285
Ancient Synagogues  /  286
Synagogues Outside the City  /  287
The Structure of the Synagogue  /  288
The Women's Gallery  /  290
Orientation  /  290
Synagogue Accessories  /  292
         The Holy Ark  /  292
         The Bimah  /  292
         Ner Tamid-The Eternal Light  /  293
         The Prayers Lectern  /  293
         Candles and Lamps  /  294
         The Basin  /  294
         Seating  /  295
         Additional Accessories   /  295
Synagogue Architecture  /  297
         Ornamentation  /  298
         Small Synagogues  /  300
         Minyanim  /  301
         The Shtibel  /  302
Synagogue Laws  /  303
The Synagogue and the Beit Midrash ("House of Study")  /  305
Official Functions and Appointments  /  306
         Head of the Synagogue (Rosh ha-Knesset)  /  306
         Parnas  /  307
         Gabbai  /  308
         azzan-Cantor  /  309
         Shammash  /  309
         Ba'al Keriah-Torah Reader  /  310
         Meturgeman-Interpreter  /  311
         The Ten Batlanim  /  312
         Rabbi  /  312
Other Use of the Synagogue  /  313
         Talmud Torah-Torah Study School for Children  /  214
         Communal Meetings  /  315
         Weddings and Circumcision Ceremonies  /  316
         Beit Din-Religious Court  /  316
         Guest House  /  317
 
CHAPTER 15. The Shalia Tzibbur  /  318
The Role of the Shalia Tzibbur and Its Origins  /  318
The azzan  /  319
The Shalia Tzibbur as Emissary to God  /  321
Various Demands on the Shalia Tzibbur  /  324
The Choir  /  325
azzan versus Ba'al Tefillah  /  328
The Kavvanah of the Shalia Tzibbur  /  329
  
CHAPTER 16. Prayer Accessories  /  332
Prayer Garments  /  332
Head Coverings  /  333
The Tallit  /  336
         When and by Whom the Tallit Is to Be Worn  /  337
         Significance of the Tallit and Its Blessing  /  339
         The Tzitzit  /  341
         Laws and Customs of the Tzitzit  /  342
         Making the Tzitzit  /  344
         Making the Tallit  /  346
         The Tallit Band (Atarah)  /  347
         The Tallit Bag  /  348
         The Blue Thread (Tekhelet)  /  348
Tefillin  /  349
         Making the Tefillin  /  351
         The Content of the Commandment of Tefillin  /  354
         The Manner of Donning Tefillin  /  358
         Blessings and Recitations  /  361
         Tefillin of Rabbenu Tam  /  363
         Some Laws and Customs of Tefillin  /  363
The Prayer Sash  /  365
Hand-Held Objects  /  366
         The Siddur  /  367
         The Arba'ah Minim ("Four Species")  /  368
 
CHAPTER 17. The Music of Prayer  /  370
         Music and Prayer  /  370
         Music in the Temple  /  370
         The Loss of Ancient Music  /  372
         Evolution of Prayer Music  /  373
         Melodies of Oriental Congregations  /  374
         Ashkenazic Cantorial Music  /  376
         New Melodies  /  378
         Styles of Prayer Music  /  381
         Musical Expression in Prayer  /  382
 
Appendices  
 
Glossary of Terms  /  387
 
Biographies  /  410
 
Bibliographical Notes  /  415
 
The Jewish Months and the Festivals and Special Days That Occur in Each of Them  /  419
 
Index  /  420mehr