Prayer Lesson 93—O, Jerusalem. Blessing 14 of the weekday Amidah
When we do the blessing after meals (birkat hamazon) on [...]
Prayer Lesson 92 – Prayer for the righteous (13th blessing of the weekday Amidah)
This blessing begins in a most interesting fashion: “Let [...]
Prayer Lesson 91 – Weekday Amidah blessing 12: “For slanderers may there be no hope….”
Another name for the Amidah is Shemoneh Esrei (= 18), a reference to the 18 [...]
Prayer Lesson 89 – “Bring us together from the four corners of the earth” Weekday Amidah blessing 10
This blessing is the purest expression of the millennial yearning [...]
Prayer Lesson 88 – You should make a good living: Weekday Amidah blessing 9
The 9th blessing of the weekday Amidah asks Hashem to bless the year, [...]
Spiritual Nugget – Amalek
This is how Rabbi Levi Yitzhak expounded the verse in [...]
Prayer Lesson 87 – Heal us: The 8th blessing of the weekday Amidah
The blessing for healing (number 8) follows immediately after the [...]
Prayer Lesson 86 – In Search of Redemption
In the weekday Amidah, there are 13 intermediate blessings. They [...]
Spiritual Nugget – In A Hurry
The Rabbi of Berditchev saw a man hurrying along the [...]
Spiritual Nugget – Drudgery
Rabbi Levi Yitzhak discovered that the girls who knead the [...]