Siddur Hatefillah

Translator’s Acknowledgements

Translator’s Introduction: Eliezer Schweid as Worshipper in the State of Israel
Author’s Preface: My Path to the Jewish Prayer Book (Siddur Hatefillah)
Introduction: The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book): Its Sources, Goal, and Theological Basis

1. Worship of God and the Process of the Sacred Congregation’s Formation and Expression

2. Prayer as a Form of Primal Expression of the Human Soul

3. Torah and Prayer: The Problem of Love and Sin in the Relations between God and the Human Being

4. The “Name and Kingship” Blessing as the Fundamental Rubric of Standing before God in Prayer

5. Establishing the Covenant of Faith between the Individual Human Being and His God

6. Principles of Faith

7. Keriyat Shema—Covenant of Love between God and His People

8. The Poetics of the Shema and the Shemoneh Esrei

9. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: The Kedushah (Sanctification) and Ḥaninat Hada’at (God as Giver of Knowledge)

10. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer—Requests by the Individual in the Assembly: Teshuvah (Repentance) and Forgiveness

11. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: Redemption, Healing, and Livelihood

12. The Shemoneh Esrei (Eighteen Benedictions) That Are Really Nineteen: Redemption from Deepening Exile

13. The Shemoneh Esrei—Responding in Anticipation of Complete Redemption

14. Types of Biblical Poetry as a Source of Prayer

15. Between the Poetry of Prophecy and Prayer

16. The Poetry of the Psalms: Personal-Soulful and Societal-Political Messages

17. Hymnal Song for the Sabbath Day. The “Sign” between God and His Treasured Nation and the Isolation from Christianity

18. Breaking the Boundary of Mystery between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Earth: Praying with Devekut (Adherence) and with Kavanah (Intention)

Epilogue: The Universality and Perpetuity of Moving from Slavery to Freedom and from Exile to Redemption

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