Prayer lesson 198: “You sanctified…”: the middle blessing of the Friday night Amidah
All Amidah prayers (“amidot’) begin with the same three blessings, and end [...]
All Amidah prayers (“amidot’) begin with the same three blessings, and end [...]
Before and after we recite the Sh’ma, we reflect on [...]
What do we think of when we hear the word [...]
I once took a class on how to explain our [...]
The blessing right after the Shma, and right before the [...]
The opening line of this blessing is a variant on [...]
The 13th blessing of the Amidah begins this way: “Let [...]
When I first began davening in earnest, in my late [...]
In the ancient world, our ancestors would routinely take [...]
Just before the Shema, we recite Ahavat Olam, a blessing which [...]
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