Siddur Hatefillah : : The Jewish Prayer Book. Philosophy, Poetry, and Mystery / / Eliezer Schweid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Schweid, Eliezer,
• MitwirkendeR: Greenberg, Gershon,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (514 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Translator’s Acknowledgements --; Translator’s Introduction: Eliezer Schweid as Worshipper in the State of Israel --; Author’s Preface: My Path to the Jewish Prayer Book (Siddur Hatefillah) --; Introduction: The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book): Its Sources, Goal, and Theological Basis --; 1. Worship of God and the Process of the Sacred Congregation’s Formation and Expression --; 2. Prayer as a Form of Primal Expression of the Human Soul --; 3. Torah and Prayer: The Problem of Love and Sin in the Relations between God and the Human Being --; 4. The “Name and Kingship” Blessing as the Fundamental Rubric of Standing before God in Prayer --; 5. Establishing the Covenant of Faith between the Individual Human Being and His God --; 6. Principles of Faith --; 7. The Keriyat Shema: The Covenant of Love between God and His People --; 8. The Poetics of the Shema and the Shemoneh Esrei --; 9. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: The Kedushah (Sanctification) and Ḥaninat Hada’at (God as Giver of Knowledge) --; 10. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer—Requests by the Individual in the Assembly: Teshuvah (Repentance) and Forgiveness --; 11. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: Redemption, Healing, and Livelihood --; 12. The Shemoneh Esrei (Eighteen Benedictions) That Are Really Nineteen: Redemption from Deepening Exile --; 13. The Shemoneh Esrei—Responding in Anticipation of Complete Redemption --; 14. Types of Biblical Poetry as a Source of Prayer --; 15. Between the Poetry of Prophecy and Prayer --; 16. The Poetry of the Psalms: Personal-Soulful and Societal-Political Messages --; 17. Hymnal Song for the Sabbath Day. The “Sign” between God and His Treasured Nation and the Isolation from Christianity --; 18. Breaking the Boundary of Mystery between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Earth: Praying with Devekut (Adherence) and with Kavanah (Intention) --; Epilogue --; Glossary --; Index --; INDEX LOCORUM
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644698662; 9783110767414; 9783110767001; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994544; 9783110994537
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644698662?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eliezer Schweid.

Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely recognized as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era. In Siddur Hatefillah he probes the Jewish prayer book as a reflection of Judaism’s unity and continuity as a unique spiritual entity; and as the most popular, most uttered, and internalized text of the Jewish people. Schweid explores texts which process religious-philosophical teaching into the language of prayer, and/or express philosophical ideas in prayer’s special language – which the worshipper reflects upon in order to direct prayer, and through which flows hoped-for feedback. With the addition of historical, philological, and literary contexts, the study provides the reader with first-time access to the comprehensive meaning of Jewish prayer – filling a vacuum in both the experience and scholarship of Jewish worship.