Prayer Lesson 228: The Lord Is My Shepherd, In More Ways Than One
In the Amidah, right before we prayer that we [...]
Prayer Lesson 227: G-d Loves the Righteous, And Other Basket Cases
In Ps. 146, which we read as a part of [...]
Rabbi Wolkoff’s Prayer Lesson 226: “You Alone are Ad-nai”
Just before we recite the Song of the Sea, we [...]
Prayer Lesson 225: The Whole Nation Sang the Song
Ever since the Middle Ages, the Song of the Sea [...]
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 [...]