Siddur Hatefillah

The Jewish Prayer Book. Philosophy, Poetry, and Mystery

By: Eliezer Schweid, Gershon Greenberg (Translator)

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Hardcover | 30 August 2022

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514 Pages

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Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely regarded as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era. In Siddur Hatefillah, he probes the Jewish prayer book as a reflection of Judaism''s unity and continuity as a unique spiritual entity; and as the most popular, most uttered, and internalized text of the Jewish people. Schweid explores texts which process religious philosophical teaching into the language of prayer, and/or express philosophical ideas in prayerâs special language â" which the worshipper reflects upon in order to direct prayer, and through which flows hoped-for feedback. With the addition of historical, philological, and literary contexts, the study provides the reader with first-time access to the comprehensive meaning of Jewish prayerâ"filling a vacuum in both the experience and scholarship of Jewish worship.

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"Schweid's comprehensive work digs into the depths of Jewish prayer as hardly any other scholarly book does. The reader’s feeling is that the book emerges from the author’s deeper need to search the soul and the profound meaning of prayer in Judaism."

- Alessandro Grazi, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

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