Prayer Lesson 224: A Drop For Each Plague
The high point of pesukei d’zimra, virtually the last [...]
Prayer Lesson 223: What’s Supposed to Happen When We Pray?
As we have previously noted, the core of the morning [...]
Prayer Lesson 222: Mi Kamocha Who Is Like You, Ad-nai?
Last Shabbat, Dr. Arthur Cederbaum asked a really interesting question. [...]
Prayer Lesson 221: Megillah Reflections
The Book of Esther which we read on Purim is [...]
Prayer lesson 220: “May there be no hope for slanderers”—the 12th blessing of the weekly Amidah
We might title this essay “On the virtue of telling [...]
Prayer Lesson 219: Love Past, Present, and Future
The blessing right before the Sh’ma centers on G-d’s [...]
Prayer Lesson 218: Three Ways to Praise G-d
The Song of the Sea, Az yashir, begins with the [...]
Prayer Lesson 217: The Case Of The Missing Prayer
Imagine you were rewriting the prayer book. What would you [...]
Prayer Lesson 216: “And Let Us Say, Amen”
Who’s “us”? At the end of every Amidah, there is [...]
Prayer Lesson 215: Prayer vs. Politics
During the inaugural prayer service, newly installed President Trump was [...]