Unlike the weekday Amidah, which contains nineteen blessings, the Amidah for Shabbat contains only seven. Why?

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 ...

• Shabbat begins with the Amidah prayer describing the first Shabbat in Eden, when Adam and Eve were the only people who existed, and concludes with the Amidah of hope that the oneness of God be ...

The Tachnun, or Nafilat Apayim is a collection of prayer fragments that are said after the Amidah Prayer (in a shul minyan it follows the Chazarat HaShas – the repetition of the prayer by the ...