Unlike the weekday Amidah, which contains nineteen blessings, the Amidah for Shabbat contains only seven. Why seven? The Talmud (Berachot 29a) explains that these seven blessings correspond to the ...
“May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable before You, O Lord - my Rock and my Redeemer.” (Psalms 19:15) We add this verse to the end of the Amidah, the central prayer ...
When we hear the word “amidah,” it is usually referring to the standing prayer that is the core of the Jewish prayer service. But the same word has an entirely different meaning in the work of Yehuda ...
One of my favorite High Holidays prayers is the U-v’khein, several paragraphs added to the Amidah, especially for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The Amidah, said while standing (Amidah means standing ...
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Israeli police have allowed Jewish visitors to bring printed prayer texts onto the Temple Mount for the first time, marking a ...
New African American Museum; Project Mercy; The Amidah Prayer ...
Police confirm change to longstanding ban on non-Muslim prayer, which comes weeks after Ben Gvir confidant appointed as ...