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Category Archives: Prayer
Spitting During The Aleinu Prayer
This was emailed me: Say, my friend, I really appreciate you coming to my home to help make a minyan, but would you mind not spitting on my $4000 oriental rug? I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been … Continue reading
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Rabbi Aryeh Ben David On God, Prayer And The Good Life
He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) … Continue reading
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Tagged adin, aryeh, close connection, empirical proof, lf, personal prayer, personality, physic, rabbi, rav, Relationships, rsquo, shabbat, siddur, something concrete, spiritual relationship, Spirituality, wit
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Creating A Relationship With God
Over Shabbat, I read a good book The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer by Aryeh Ben David. He writes on page nine: Many of us walk into a synagogue with the expectation that a spiritual experience will descend upon … Continue reading
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Tagged aryeh, distractions, expectation, prayer book, prayerbook, relationship with god, shabbat, spiritual connection, spiritual experience, spiritual feelings, Synagogue, Truth
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Music In Our Prayers
Rabbi Mordechai Weiss writes for the Jewish Press: When the prophet Elisha was asked to advise Jeroboam on whether to engage in war, Elisha asked to first play music. It was only after the music lifted his spirits and transformed … Continue reading
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Congregational Singing
Rabbi Gil Student writes: Certain sections of the prayer service are commonly sung by the congregation but there are two main ways in which this singing takes place: 1) the Beis Medrash style and 2) the Young Israel style. In … Continue reading
The Prayer Pathway To God
Reform Rabbi Dana Kaplan writes in his forthcoming book The Transformation of American Judaism: As a new rabbi in the mid 1990s, I discovered that the vast majority of my congregants were disinterested in the meaning of the words in … Continue reading
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What do you think about during shmona esray [Judaism’s main prayer]?
From FrumSatire: Jacob posts: "I always wander off and start thinking about hot babes. Before ya know it, I’m finished and commence doing the 3 step backup." Not Frum posts: "I look around and wait till at least three people … Continue reading
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Monty Python’s Guide To Prayer
"Let us praise God. Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so … Continue reading
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