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

• 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 12th blessing of the Amidah, the central prayer of every Jewish worship service, is actually a curse against enemies of the Jewish people.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Progressive liturgists seek to introduce gender parity into the first paragraph of the Amidah by adding the names of the Matriarchs ...