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| amidah hebrew text: Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections Cambridge University Library, Avihai Shivtiel, Friedrich Niessen, 2006-02-16 This volume is a continuation of the catalogue compiled by Colin F. Baker and Meira Polliack, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Arabic Old Series (T-S Ar. 1a-54) published in 2001, and covers the manuscripts in the New Series. The volume describes almost 9,500 Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic fragments of the Cairo Genizah. The manuscripts include Bible translations and commentaries, philosophical, medical and historical texts, as well as business and private letters. They will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of fields including theology, history of the Middle East, Jewish studies, Middle Arabic, comparative Semitic studies, medicine, mathematics and geography. These manuscripts offer a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of the Jews living in Arab lands in the medieval period. |
| amidah hebrew text: קונטרס עבודת התפילה Mayer Birnbaum, 2005 |
| amidah hebrew text: My People's Prayer Book Lawrence A. Hoffman, 1997 Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God, history and tradition, through the heritage of prayer. The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul. This stunning work, an empowering entryway to the spiritual revival of our times, enables all of us to claim our connection to the heritage of the traditional Jewish prayer book. It helps rejuvenate Jewish worship in today's world, and makes its power accessible to all. Vol. 10--Shabbat Morning: Shacharit and Musaf (Morning and Additional Services) features the authentic Hebrew text with a new translation that lets people know exactly what the prayers say. Introductions explain what to look for in the prayers, and how to truly use the commentaries to find meaning in the prayer book. Framed with beautifully designed Talmud-style pages, commentaries from many of today's most respected Jewish scholars from all movements of Judaism examine Shacharit and Musaf from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, Talmudic, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives. Contributors include: Marc Brettler * Elliot N. Dorff * David Ellenson * Ellen Frankel * Alyssa Gray * Joel M. Hoffman * Lawrence A. Hoffman * Lawrence Kushner * Daniel Landes * Ivan G. Marcus * Nehemia Polen * Gordon Tucker |
| amidah hebrew text: Endless Light David Aaron, 1998-11 Answers the question Who am I? with the teachings of the Torah, and offers ways to become enriched spiritually and live more satisfying lives. |
| amidah hebrew text: Letters to Josep Daniella Levy, 2019-01-15 It began as an extraordinary correspondence across the Mediterranean.Josep, a secular Catholic from Barcelona, wanted to learn about Daniella's life as an American-Israeli Orthodox Jew. Her enthusiastic response to his curiosity resulted in this collection of entertaining and enlightening letters.With nuance, candor, and warmth-and a liberal dash of humor-Daniella paints a vivid picture of observant Jewish life. She explains complex concepts in a manner so unassuming and accessible that even the most uninitiated can relate-but with enough depth that the knowledgeable will find new insight, too.Whether you're a curious non-Jew or a Jew hoping to expand your knowledge, Letters to Josep will charm, inform, and inspire you. |
| amidah hebrew text: From Text to Tradition Lawrence H. Schiffman, 1991 From Text to Tradition examines the history of Judaism as it developed from the religion of biblical Israel to the Judaism of the talmudic rabbis. Each step in this process is discussed from the historical, literary and religious points of view and the context of the political history of the Jews. Among the topics covered in this connection are the biblical heritage which underlies all later Judaism, the importance of the Persian period for laying the groundwork for postbiblical Judaism, the confrontation of Judaism with Hellenism, apocrypha, pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, the Jewish-Christian schism, the impact of the Jewish revolts against Rome and the destruction of the Temple, the rise of Rabbinic Judaism, and the development of the Mishnah, Talmud and Jewish law. One of the books major theses is that the various approaches to Judaism shared sufficient common ground as to be classified as one, albeit variegated, religious tradition. Diverging trends may be--and are--traced during this period, as is the question of the role of interpretation, the impact of external influences, and the process by which the competing approaches were eventually supplanted by the rabbinic tradition, which became the basis for medieval and modern Judaism. In this way, Judaism is shown to have travelled the long road from the textual heritage of the Hebrew Bible to the oral tradition of the rabbis. |
| amidah hebrew text: My People's Prayer Book Vol 2 Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, 2013-06-05 The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul. My People's Prayer Book provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of today's most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. They explore the text from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, medieval, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives. This stunning work, an empowering entryway to the spiritual revival of our times, enables all of us to claim our connection to the heritage of the traditional Jewish prayer book. It helps rejuvenate Jewish worship in today's world, and makes its power accessible to all. The My People's Prayer Book series belongs on the library shelf of every home, every synagogue—every sanctuary of prayer. Introductions tell the reader what to look for in the prayer service, as well as how to truly use the commentaries, to search for—and find—meaning in the prayer book. |
| amidah hebrew text: משכן תפלה Elyse D. Frishman, 2007 |
| amidah hebrew text: The Structure of the High Holiday Services Stephen R. Schach, 2002 To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. |
| amidah hebrew text: Guide for the Perplexed Moses Maimonides, 2021 In the 12th century, Moses Maimonides wrote a long letter to one of his rabbinical students discussing a variety of philosophical matters concerning theology. The text tries to clarify some of the contradictions between the literal meaning of the Torah and its philosophical explications. This work is still of interest to contemporary philosophers and theologians. |
| amidah hebrew text: Prayer in the Talmud Joseph Heinemann, 2012-10-25 After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion. |
| amidah hebrew text: A History of Prayer Roy Hammerling, 2008-11-30 “Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beliefs, and convictions. Since prayers exist in a wide variety of content, contexts, forms, and practices, a comprehensive approach to the study of prayer is required. Therefore, this volume includes scholars from a wide range of disciplines, in order to discover the breadth of “real religion” from the first to the fifteenth centuries. This volume especially focuses upon the history of Christianity and monasticism, where prayer was the school of hope, faith, and critical thought, awakening the faithful to every aspect of religious and daily life. Contributors are L. Edward Phillips, Karlfried Froehlich, Michael Joseph Brown, David W. Fagerberg, Columba Stewart, Benedicta Ward, Susan Boynton, Corey Barnes, Johannes Heil, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Roger S. Wieck, Paul W. Robinson and Roy Hammerling. |
| amidah hebrew text: Problems with Prayers Stefan C. Reif, 2012-03-12 Much of the primary research summarized here relates to Cambridge Genizah manuscripts, a thousand-year-old source that testifies to liturgical (as well, of course, as non-liturgical) developments that greatly predate other source material. When the research is concerned with pre-Genizah history, the Genizah evidence is also relevant since the historian of religious ideas must ultimately decide how to date, characterize, and conceptualize its contents and how to explain where they vary significantly from what became, or is regarded (rightly or wrongly) as having become, the standard rabbinic liturgy sanctioned by the Iraqi Jewish authorities from the ninth to the eleventh century. |
| amidah hebrew text: Siddur Sha'ar Zahav Sha’ar Zahav, 2009-01-01 Congregation Sha’ar Zahav’s first siddur appeared in 1982. It was revised in 1994and again in 2000. The richness of this siddur, like the Sha’ar Zahav community, is rooted in its integration of Jewish tradition with egalitarian, feminist, and LGBTQ-positive ideas and language. With this edition, we have sought to continue and expand the Sha’ar Zahav tradition of creating liturgy that reflects who we are. The compilers of the 2000 edition wrote: “A Jewish prayer book which had nothing in common with the traditional siddur would lack the wealth of history which connects our worship with Jewish practice around the world and over the centuries. On the other hand, many of us are uncomfortable with some of the imagery and language found in the prayer books of the major Jewish denominations in the United States. With this prayer book, we have attempted to capture the spirit of Jewish liturgy while avoiding the objectionable elements.” When Congregation Sha’ar Zahav was founded in 1977, only a handful of synagogues offered full acceptance to bisexual, transgender, lesbian, gay, and queer-identified Jews. From the outset, Sha’ar Zahav has been a community that is open to all. Sha’ar Zahav is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), and this siddur reflects many of the innovations of the Reform movement as well as the URJ’s commitment to an evolving liturgical tradition. The members of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav – the authors of most of the new material in this siddur – come from many varied backgrounds, movements, affiliations, traditions, and practices. Some identify with Ashkenazi, Sephardi, or Mizrachi traditions. Some were born into Jewish families, while some chose Judaism. We are young and old and every age in between. We have sought to reflect both our shared traditions and our differences in our liturgy. In order to create a spiritual home for all who choose to enter our gates, and in order to develop a siddur which will continue to resonate with the congregation and reflect our community’s diversity, we have tried to cast a wide liturgical net. We have drawn from the traditions we have been handed, we have sought out sources that have been hidden, and we have tapped the creative gifts of our own community. In this edition, we have been mindful of, and have sought to expand, the principles which have distinguished this siddur in the past: using non-sexist language when referring to both people and God; restoring visibility to women throughout Jewish tradition; speaking directly to the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified people; understanding the concept of Jewish chosenness as uniqueness; envisioning the Messianic time as the fulfillment of tikkun olam, the repair of the world, and seeing ourselves as participants in the holy work of repair. Siddur Sha’ar Zahav includes alternative English versions of prayers, and alternative Hebrew and Aramaic, so that our values can be reflected in all of our languages of prayer. Because of the gravity of altering wording that may be hundreds of years old, we spent considerable time developing guidelines for Hebrew prayers. In keeping with the Sha’ar Zahav tradition, we decided not to remove customary versions of prayers, but to add new versions alongside them. We did not alter any passages taken from the Torah, except to ensure gender inclusivity, which is noted in the text. Nor did we alter prayers such as the Mourners’ Kaddish, which serve so powerfully to connect us to the Jewish people across time and space. Where we did create new Hebrew versions, we followed a set of principles, which are discussed in the appendices. Siddur Sha’ar Zahav endeavors to respect the varied, and at times contradictory, sensibilities of our people and our congregation. Our goal is for all of us – progressive Jews within the Reform movement’s umbrella, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation – to see ourselves reflected in our liturgy, so that none of us experience the invisibility and exclusion we have historically encountered. Our prayer book attempts to embody the teaching that each of us is created b’tzelem Elohim, “in the image of God.” While we know that not every reading will speak to each of us, we hope that in these pages all of us will find a point of departure for prayer, and for dialogue with the Source of creation. |
| amidah hebrew text: The Oxford Bible Commentary John Barton, John Muddiman, 2007-01-25 CD-ROM contains: Introductions and verse-by-verse commentaries to Genesis and Mark's Gospel -- Logos Library System. |
| amidah hebrew text: After Emancipation David Ellenson, 2004-12-30 David Ellenson prefaces this fascinating collection of twenty-three essays with a remarkably candid account of his intellectual journey from boyhood in Virginia to the scholarly immersions in the history, thought, and literature of the Jewish people that have informed his research interests in a long and distinguished academic career. Ellenson, President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, has been particularly intrigued by the attempts of religious leaders in all denominations of Judaism, from Liberal to Neo-Orthodox, to redefine and reconceptualize themselves and their traditions in the modern period as both the Jewish community and individual Jews entered radically new realms of possibility and change. The essays are grouped into five sections. In the first, Ellenson reflects upon the expression of Jewish values and Jewish identity in contemporary America, explains his debt to Jacob Katz's socio-religious approach to Jewish history, and shows how the works of non-Jewish social historian Max Weber highlight the tensions between the universalism of western thought and Jewish demands for a particularistic identity. In the second section, The Challenge of Emanicpation, he indicates how Jewish religious leaders in nineteenth-century Europe labored to demonstrate that the Jewish religion and Jewish culture were worthy of respect by the larger gentile world. In a third section, Denominational Responses, Ellenson shows how the leaders of Liberal and Orthodox branches of Judaism in Central Europe constructed novel parameters for their communities through prayer books, legal writings, sermons, and journal articles. The fourth section, Modern Responsa, takes a close look at twentieth-century Jewish legal decisions on new issues such as the status of woemn, fertility treatments, and even the obligations of the Israeli government towards its minority populations. Finally, review essays in the last section analyze a few landmark contemporary works of legal and liturgical creativity: the new Israeli Masorti prayer book, David Hartman's works on covenantal theology, and Marcia Falk's Book of Blessings. As Ellenson demonstrates, The reality of Jewish cultural and social integration into the larger world after Emancipation did not signal the demise of Judaism. Instead, the modern setting has provided a challenging context where the ongoing creativity and adaptability of Jewish religious leaders of all stripes has been tested and displayed. |
| amidah hebrew text: Luke's Jewish Eschatology Isaac W. Oliver, 2021 This book revisits the Jewish roots of Christianity. More specifically, this work investigates what Luke thought about the Jewish people and the end of time in light of ancient Jewish sources. It is likely that Luke's views on these questions were not too different from the Judaism of Luke's time. Luke believed that Israel would experience political and national restoration when Jesus would return as the victorious messiah. |
| amidah hebrew text: The Jewish Annotated New Testament Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler, 2017-08-04 First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament was a groundbreaking work, bringing the New Testament's Jewish background to the attention of students, clergy, and general readers. In this new edition, eighty Jewish scholars bring together unparalleled scholarship to shed new light on the text. This thoroughly revised and greatly expanded second edition brings even more helpful information and new insights to the study of the New Testament. · Introductions to each New Testament book, containing guidance for reading and specific information about how the book relates to the Judaism of the period, have been revised and augmented, and in some cases newly written. · Annotations on the text--some revised, some new to this edition--provide verse-by-verse commentary. · The thirty essays from the first edition are thoroughly updated, and there are twenty-four new essays, on topics such as Mary in Jewish Tradition, Christology, and Messianic Judaism. · For Christian readers The Jewish Annotated New Testament offers a window into the first-century world of Judaism from which the New Testament springs. There are explanations of Jewish concepts such as food laws and rabbinic argumentation. It also provides a much-needed corrective to many centuries of Christian misunderstandings of the Jewish religion. · For Jewish readers, this volume provides the chance to encounter the New Testament--a text of vast importance in Western European and American culture--with no religious agenda and with guidance from Jewish experts in theology, history, and Jewish and Christian thought. It also explains Christian practices, such as the Eucharist. The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Second Edition is an essential volume that places the New Testament writings in a context that will enlighten readers of any faith or none. |
| amidah hebrew text: Essential Judaism: Updated Edition George Robinson, 2016-04-12 An award-winning journalist tells you everything you need to know about being Jewish in this user-friendly guide that explains not only what Jews do and believe, but why. |
| amidah hebrew text: Early Jewish Prayers in Greek Pieter W. van der Horst, Judith. H. Newman, 2008-12-10 During the past few decades a great amount of scholarly work has been done on the various prayer cultures of antiquity, both Graeco-Roman and Jewish and Christian. In Jewish studies this burgeoning research on ancient prayer has been stimulated particularly by the many new prayer texts found at Qumran, which have shed new light on several long-standing problems. The present volume intends to make a new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on ancient Jewish prayer texts by focusing on a limited set of prayer texts, scil. , a small number of those that have been preserved only in Greek. Jewish prayers in Greek tend to be undervalued, which is regrettable because these prayers shed light on sometimes striking aspects of early Jewish spirituality in the centuries around the turn of the era. In this volume twelve such prayers have been collected, translated, and provided with an extensive historical and philological commentary. They have been preserved on papyrus, on stone, and as part of Christian church orders into which some of them have been incorporated in a christianized from. For that reason these prayers are of great interest to scholars of both early Judaism and ancient Christianity. |
| amidah hebrew text: The Lord's Song in a Strange Land Jeffrey A. Summit, 2003 Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of worship communities. Through this music, made by and for ordinary folk, these worshippers define and re-define their relationship to the continuity of Jewish tradition and the realities of American life. Combining oral history with an analysis of recordings, The Lord's Song in a Strange Land examines this tradition incontemporary Jewish worship and explores the diverse links between the music and both spiritual and cultural identities. Alive with detail, the book focuses on metropolitan Boston and covers the full range of Jewish communities there, from Hasidim to Jewish college students in a transdenominational setting. It documents a remarkably fluid musical tradition, where melodies are often shared, where sources can be as diverse as Sufi chant, Christmas carols, rock and roll, and Israeli popular music, and where the meaning of a song can change from one block to the next. |
| amidah hebrew text: Sirach and Its Contexts , 2021-01-25 In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts on the book of Sirach locate this second-century BCE Jewish wisdom text in its various contexts: literary, historical, philosophical, textual, cultural, and political. First compiled by a Jewish sage around 185 BCE, this instruction enjoyed a vibrant ongoing reception history through the middle ages up to the present, resulting in a multiform textual tradition as it has been written, rewritten, transmitted, and studied. Sirach was not composed as a book in the modern sense but rather as an ongoing stream of tradition. Heretofore studied largely in confessional settings as part of the Deuterocanonical literature, this volume brings together essays that take a broadly humanistic approach, in order to understand what an ancient wisdom text can teach us about the pursuit of wisdom and human flourishing. |
| amidah hebrew text: Prayer Traditions Noah Martin, AI, 2025-03-06 Prayer Traditions explores the diverse world of prayer across various religions, examining its forms, meanings, and significance. It emphasizes that prayer is more than just words; it's a profound expression of faith and a connection to the divine. The book highlights intriguing facts, such as the evolution of prayer through centuries of tradition and the shared human need for connection that unites different practices. The book progresses by first introducing core concepts of prayer, faith, and spirituality. Then, it examines diverse forms of prayer across traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and indigenous spiritualities, dedicating chapters to each. Finally, it explores the shared human needs that prayer addresses, such as the desire for solace and purpose. This approach promotes interfaith understanding and spiritual awareness without proselytizing, making it valuable for spiritual seekers and students of religion interested in interfaith dialogue and diverse religious practices. |
| amidah hebrew text: Jews, Bible and Prayer Stefan C. Reif, 2017-05-08 In his articles Stefan Reif deas with Jewish biblical exegesis and the close analysis of the evolution of Jewish prayer texts. Some fourteen of these that appeared in various collective volumes are here made more easily available, together with a major new study of Numbers 13, an introduction and extensive indexes. Reif attempts to establish whether there is any linguistic, literary and exegetical value in the traditional Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible for the modern scientific approach to such texts and whether such an approach itself is always free of theological bias. He demonstrates how Jewish liturgical texts may illuminate religious teachings about wisdom, history, peace, forgiveness, and divine metaphors. Also clarified in these essays are notions of David, Greek and Hebrew, divine metaphors, and the liturgical use of the Hebrew Bible. |
| amidah hebrew text: The Shabbat Morning Service: Book 1: The Shema and Its Blessings Behrman House, 1985 This three-volume prayer series based on the Conservative Shabbat Morning Service transforms Hebrew study into a practical prayer learning experience. The only entry requirement is the ability to read Hebrew phonetically.¬+ |
| amidah hebrew text: The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora Hasia R. Diner, 2021-11-05 For as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora. Dedicated to the study of transnational peoples and the linkages these people forged among themselves over the course of their wanderings and in the multiple places to which they went, the term “diaspora” reflects the increasing interest in migrations, trauma, globalism, and community formations. The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora acts as a comprehensive collection of scholarship that reflects the multifaceted nature of diaspora studies. Persecuted and exiled throughout their history, the Jewish people have also left familiar places to find better opportunities in new ones. But their history has consistently been defined by their permanent lack of belonging. This Oxford Handbook explores the complicated nature of diasporic Jewish life as something both destructive and generative. Contributors explore subjects as diverse as biblical and medieval representations of diaspora, the various diaspora communities that emerged across the globe, the contradictory relationship the diaspora bears to Israel, and how the diaspora is celebrated and debated within modern Jewish thought. What these essays share is a commitment to untangling the legacy of the diaspora on Jewish life and culture. This volume portrays the Jewish diaspora not as a simple, unified front, but as a population characterized by conflicting impulses and ideas. The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora captures the complexity of the Jewish diaspora by acknowledging the tensions inherent in a group of people defined by trauma and exile as well as by voluntary migrations to places with greater opportunity. |
| amidah hebrew text: Jewish Manuscripts, Prayers and Scholars Stefan C. Reif, 2024-12-30 The introduction offers some thoughts on each of the four areas covered by the essays and draws some broad conclusions. Studies of the history of manuscripts and of their acquisition demonstrate their impact on research into Jewish studies and on modern Judaism’s understanding of itself. What emerges from liturgical studies here included is how important it is not only to analyze texts but also to identify overall historical, geographical and cultural developments. Prayer may have been used as an educational tool and, in turn, influenced educational ideas and agendas. The liturgical themes that occur and recur over the centuries (and especially in the talmudic and medieval periods) reflect the ideological and theological notions that lie behind prayer texts and the variant forms that they take. Some common prayers are seen to include concepts of time, views of creation, attitudes to non-Jews and definitions of Jewish peoplehood. The appreciations of some leading modern scholars of Jewish studies set them in their educational, historical and religious contexts and indicate what they had in common as experts in scientific Jewish studies as well as what remained individual about their lives, research publications and achievements. |
| amidah hebrew text: Conservative Judaism , 1996 |
| amidah hebrew text: Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300 Anna Sapir Abulafia, 2014-05-22 The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the role played by Jews in a predominantly Christian society. This book provides an original survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations encompassing England, Spain, France and Germany, and sheds light in the process on the major developments in medieval history between 1000 and 1300. Anna Sapir Abulafia's balanced yet humane account offers a new perspective on Christian-Jewish relations by analysing the theological, socio-economic and political services Jews were required to render to medieval Christendom. The nature of Jewish service varied greatly as Christian rulers struggled to reconcile the desire to profit from the presence of Jewish men and women in their lands with conflicting theological notions about Judaism. Jews meanwhile had to deal with the many competing authorities and interests in the localities in which they lived; their continued presence hinged on a fine balance between theology and pragmatism. The book examines the impact of the Crusades on Christian-Jewish relations and analyses how anti-Jewish libels were used to define relations. Making adept use of both Latin and Hebrew sources, Abulafia draws on liturgical and exegetical material, and narrative, polemical and legal sources, to give a vivid and accurate sense of how Christians interacted with Jews and Jews with Christians. |
| amidah hebrew text: Yannai on Genesis Laura S. Lieber, 2010-09-15 Piyyut is the art of Hebrew or Aramaic poetry composed either in place of or as adornments to Jewish statutory prayers. Laura S. Lieber uses the piyyutim of a single poet, Yannai (ca. sixth century C.E.), to introduce readers to this important but largely unfamiliar body of writings. Yannai, the first Hebrew poet to sign his name to his works (by means of an acrostic), influenced Hebrew sacred poetry for centuries beyond his lifespan. He was the first to consistently use true end rhyme, and he was among the first to have written for the weekly service and festivals rather than just particular holidays. As literary works, his poems are as dazzling as they are complex, rich with sound and play, allusion and linguistic beauty. Lieber presents the Hebrew texts of Yannai's 31 extant piyyutim which embellish the Book of Genesis. She translates, annotates, and analyzes these complex poems, which display the poet's transformative treatments of some of the most familiar biblical narratives. She contextualizes these poems and teaches readers how to read and appreciate piyyut by studying Yannai's poetic language and the formal structures of the poems; his exegetical, cultural, and societal importance; and intriguing motifs in Yannai's worldview such as mysticism, holiness, Jewish-Christian relations, and the role of women. Lieber's groundbreaking study is an invitation to those with interests in areas such as liturgical studies, rabbinic literature and targum studies, the early synagogue and its art, Byzantine Christian culture and society, and the history of biblical interpretation to engage with these beautiful and neglected texts and include them in larger intellectual conversations. |
| amidah hebrew text: Early Judaism Frederick E. Greenspahn, 2018-07-17 Over the past generation, several major discoveries and methodological innovations have led scholars to reevaluate the foundations of Judaism. The Dead Sea Scrolls are the most famous, but other materials have further altered our understanding of Judaism's development after the Biblical era. This volume explores some of the latest clues into how early Judaism took shape ...--Back cover. |
| amidah hebrew text: On Wings of Prayer Nuria Calduch-Benages, Michael W. Duggan, Dalia Marx, 2019-07-22 The contributors and editors dedicate this volume of research to Professor Stefan C. Reif on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Together these twenty papers reflect our appreciation for his exemplary scholarship and lifelong commitment to acquaint our world with the theological and cultural riches of Jewish Studies. This collection reflects the breadth of Prof. Reif’s interests insofar as it is a combination of Second Temple studies and Jewish studies on the roots of Jewish prayer and liturgy which is his main field of expertise. Contributions on biblical and second temple studies cover Amos, Ben Sira, Esther, 2 Maccabees, Judith, Wisdom, Qumran Psalms, and James. Contributions on Jewish studies cover nuptial and benedictions after meals, Adon Olam, Passover Seder, Amidah, the Medieval Palestinian Tefillat ha-Shir, and other aspects of rabbinic liturgy. Moreover, the regional diversity of scholars from Israel, continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America mirrors Stefan’s travels as a lecturer and the reach of his publications. The volume includes a foreword of appreciation and a bibliographic list of Professor Reif's works. |
| amidah hebrew text: Cursing the Christians? Ruth Langer, 2012-01-12 Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians, apostates to Christianity, sectarians, and enemies of Israel. Drawing on the shifting liturgical texts, polemics, and apologetics concerning the prayer, Langer traces the transformation of the birkat haminim from what functioned without question in the medieval world as a Jewish curse of Christians, through its early modern censorship by Christians, to its modern transformation within the Jewish world into a general petition that God remove evil from the world. Christian censorship played a crucial role in this transformation of the prayer; however, Langer argues that the truest transformation in meaning resulted from Jewish integration into Western culture. Eventually, the prayer shed its references to any specific category of human being and lost its function as a curse. Reconciliation between Jews and Christians today requires both communities to confront a long history of prejudice. Ruth Langer shows through the birkat haminim how the history of one liturgical text chronicled Jewish thinking about Christians over hundreds of years. |
| amidah hebrew text: Trees, Earth, and Torah Ari Elon, 2000 Exploring childbirth from within a Jewish tradition, the author of New Lifedraws on folklore, prayers, folk remedies, and biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature to discuss Jewish beliefs, values, and customs concerning the birth of a child. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Reprint. |
| amidah hebrew text: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1990 |
| amidah hebrew text: Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, Mediaeval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archaeology Moses Gaster, 1971 |
| amidah hebrew text: מעלי תפילות Richard N. Levy, 1985 |
| amidah hebrew text: Encyclopaedia Britannica , 1973 |
| amidah hebrew text: Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity Graham Stanton, Guy G. Stroumsa, 1998-05-28 The essays in this book consider issues of tolerance and intolerance faced by Jews and Christians between approximately 200 BCE and 200 CE. Several chapters are concerned with many different aspects of early Jewish-Christian relationships. Five scholars, however, take a difference tack and discuss how Jews and Christians defined themselves against the pagan world. As minority groups, both Jews and Christians had to work out ways of co-existing with their Graeco-Roman neighbours. Relationships with those neighbours were often strained, but even within both Jewish and Christian circles, issues of tolerance and intolerance surfaced regularly. So it is appropriate that some other contributors should consider 'inner-Jewish' relationships, and that some should be concerned with Christian sects. |
| amidah hebrew text: Jewish Law Suzanne Last Stone, Yonatan Y. Brafman, 2024-12-30 New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its broader academic and cultural significance. It shifts the study of Jewish law from its focus on legal doctrine and history to legal theory, achieving in the process a more sophisticated understanding of law that will benefit both the legal academy and Jewish studies. By employing the framework of legal theory, it similarly corrects an over-emphasis on the metaphysical presuppositions and philosophical implications of Jewish law, which has tended to cast it as exceptional relative to other legal systems. Moreover, it answers to old-new anxieties about law, often symbolized by Judaism, raised by contemporary feminists and by philosophers who are animated by recent interpretations of Paul through actual engagement with the Jewish legal tradition. The volume consists of three parts. The first focuses on the critique of positivism, its implications, and the new directions that it opens up for the analysis of Jewish law. The second part takes stock of recent methodological developments in the study of Jewish legal texts and investigates the relation between Jewish law and the disciplines, including history, literary theory, ritual studies, the digital humanities, as well as traditional approaches to Jewish learning. It concludes with a reflection on these interdisciplinary contributions from the perspective of legal theory. The third part explores the connections among Jewish law, philosophy, and culture critique. It assesses the relation or lack thereof between Jewish law and modern Jewish thought, and examines specific issues of philosophical interest, including truth and normativity. It also investigates the image of Jewish law in the contemporary critique of law as well as how Jewish law could productively contribute to that debate. It concludes with a reflection on these studies from the perspective of philosophy of law. |
MODEH ANI The SHEMA - Ami Yisrael
Hebrew Prayer adapted from Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Lev 19:18, Luke 10:27 Sh'ma Yisrael; Adonai (Yahweh) Eh-lo-hay-noo; Adonai (Yahweh) eh-chad. Ba-rooch shem k'vode; Mahl-choo-too; …
AMIDAH “The Standing Prayers” - Otokletos
The Amidah is the central prayer of all four Jewish prayer services: shacharit (morning), mincha (afternoon), maariv (evening), and mussaf (additional). The word Amidah literally means …
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AMIDAH FOR SHABBAT MORNING הרֹשע הנוֹמשׁ - הדימע SHEMONEH ESREH - AMIDAH (EIGHTEEN) - (STANDING), חָתְּפִתּ י ַתָפְֹש , יי Adonai, se-fa-tai’ tif-tach’, Adonai, lips my You …
A Simplified Reading Guide - Hebrew for Christians
Hebrew for Christians www.hebrew4christians.com www.hebrew4christians.com The Weekday Amidah You, O Lord, are mighty forever, You are the Reviver of the dead, You are greatly able …
The Amidah - The Standing Prayer 1. GOD OF HISTORY
The Amidah - The Standing Prayer Pastor Mark Biltz [www.elshaddaiministries.us] The Amidiah - called The Standing Prayer, was composed around 450 BCE, by the 120 Men of the Great …
Jewish Daily Prayer (Amidah, Eighteen Blessings)
Jewish Daily Prayer (Amidah, Eighteen Blessings) *Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare Your praise. Blessed are You, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, God of Abraham, God …
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Aug 2, 2019 · This section of the Amidah contains three blessings: Avot v’imahot The first blessing in the Amidah. The name literally means “fathers and mothers,” and refers to the …
SHABBAT PRAYER BOOK GUIDE - ShulCloud
Amidah prepare us for it, and the prayers recited after the Amidah enable us to bring the Amidah experience down to earth. The Amidah is recited when a Jew stands before G-d, like a subject …
I. ךיֶנפָלְ יִנאֲ הדֶוֹמ םָיקְַו יחַ ךְלֶמֶ הלָמְחֶבְ
The word Amidah literally means standing, because it is recited while standing. It is also known asָShemonehָEsrei,ָmeaningָ“Eighteen”,ָbecauseָitָoriginallyָconsistedָofָeighteenָblessings,ָ and is …
Praying the Amidah
Tefillat Amidah, or the Standing Prayer, is perhaps the most commonly referenced liturgical prayer in the Jewish or Hebrew faith. Originally known as Shemoneh Eshrei, Hebrew for “eighteen,” it …
Weekday Amidah - Hebrew for Christians
Hebrew for Christians www.hebrew4christians.com www.hebrew4christians.com The Weekday Amidah w :h x'yl is. Ã W n Köl.m; W n lö lx ; m. Ã W n a j'x ' yK i W n ybia ' W n lö x l;s .
Opening Statement - Hebrew for Christians
"O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise." Most High God and the revered the mighty the great God.
AMIDAH dcinr - Ruach Israel
The Amidah is a prayer said both silently by individuals and communally. The first blessing, Avot, blesses God for being faithful to our ancestors. We hope to elicit divine favor because of their …
Amidah (Standing Prayer) - WordPress.com
Amidah (Standing Prayer) – Shemonei Esrei (Eighteen Blessings) My Lord, open my lips and I will tell your praise. O Blessed are you, Lord our God and the God of our forefathers, God of …
The Amidah Prayer
We end the Amidah by saying OSEH SHALOM / ADON OLAM We face Israel when we Pray, because we hope to return there one day, when Moshiach will come and the 3rd Beit …
Amidah Hebrew Text - Piedmont University
As Judaism's central prayer, the Amidah is often designated simply as tefila (, prayer) in Rabbinic literature. Observant Jews recite the Amidah at each of three prayer services in a typical …
THE AMIDAH THE STANDING PRAYER - beitlechem.life
THE AMIDAH THE STANDING PRAYER My Lord, Open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise. Blessed are you, Lord our God and God of our fathers, God of Abraham, God of …
THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ELOHIM - nomanszone.org
AMIDAH: The Amidah is the central prayer of Hebrew liturgy and one of its oldest, dating back to the time of Ezra and the Great Assembly. The word Amidah translates to "standing," as the …
Amidah Hebrew Text (PDF) - admissions.piedmont.edu
House,1945 The Complete Hebrew text illuminated by English translation and commentary Text-book of the Jewish
Hoda'ah: Thankgiving to the Lord 18 - Hebrew for Christians
“ We thank You, for it is You alone Who is Adonai our God and the God of our fathers, forever and ever. You are the Rock and Shield of our salvation, You alone, from generation to generation. …
MODEH ANI The SHEMA - Ami Yisrael
Hebrew Prayer adapted from Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Lev 19:18, Luke 10:27 Sh'ma Yisrael; Adonai …
AMIDAH “The Standing Prayers” - Otokletos
The Amidah is the central prayer of all four Jewish prayer services: shacharit (morning), mincha (afternoon), …
010 amidah shabbat morning C - Kakatuv
AMIDAH FOR SHABBAT MORNING הרֹשע הנוֹמשׁ - הדימע SHEMONEH ESREH - AMIDAH (EIGHTEEN) - (STANDING), …
A Simplified Reading Guide - Hebrew for Christians
Hebrew for Christians www.hebrew4christians.com www.hebrew4christians.com The …
The Amidah - The Standing Prayer 1. GOD OF HISTORY
The Amidah - The Standing Prayer Pastor Mark Biltz [www.elshaddaiministries.us] The …
