• Complain

Arnold Rosenberg - Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship

Here you can read online Arnold Rosenberg - Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2000, publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., genre: Religion. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Arnold Rosenberg Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship
  • Book:
    Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Jason Aronson, Inc.
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2000
  • Rating:
    5 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 100
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major movements of American Judaism.
The traditional Jewish liturgy, if properly understood, is a deep and powerful technique for spiritual transformation. However, spiritual depth of prayer has been progressively reduced over the past 2000 years as the underlying currents of the Siddur, the Jewish prayerbook, have been lost to the majority of worshippers. This book explains the Jewish liturgy prayer by prayer, according to what, in the context of ancient and medieval Judaism, was its raison dtre: a structure for transforming ones mind and way of life.
The author writes: The crisis Judaism now faces, while genuine, is due not to a lack of depth in the traditional Jewish prayer service, but to a profound and almost universal lack of understanding of that prayer service that pervades all segments of the Jewish community. Jewish prayer services in many contemporary synagogues lack spiritual fervor because the linkage between word and ritual, on the one hand, and mental transformation on the other, that would generate such fervor is not generally known to Jewish adults and is not taught to Jewish children. Unfortunately, the prayer service regularly degenerates into a race through words and gestures divorced from the sequence of mental states and visualizations through which these words and gestures were intended to lead us.
This book was written to reunite the activity and language of prayer with its original transformative goal, by educating worshippers about what is at the heart of the siddur. Several chapters provide an overview of the Jewish prayer service and its spiritual flow. These chapters explain the visualizations, allusions, and meditative techniques that form the heart of the service and the altered states of consciousness through which the service ca

Arnold Rosenberg: author's other books


Who wrote Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Table of Contents Acknowledgments This book is dedicated to my wife - photo 1
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

This book is dedicated to my wife, Nelly Reyes, and my children, Julian and Nina Rosenberg, whose love and patience have made many late nights of writing bearable.

Rabbi Joseph Tabory of Bar Ilan University has been an invaluable help in reviewing the manuscript and ensuring its accuracy. I am deeply grateful to him. I am also grateful to Rabbi David Wolpe, Assistant to the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Professors Abraham J. Karp and Raymond Scheindlin of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Cantor Samuel Rosenbaum, Rabbi Alan Lew, Professor Steven Fine of Baltimore Hebrew University, Nama Frenkel, and Richard Fabian, Convener of the Seminar on Problems in the Early History of the Liturgy of the North American Academy of Liturgy, for their comments and assistance. Finally, my thanks to Arthur Kurzweil and Anthony Rubin at Jason Aronson Inc., for their profound interest in, and prompt attention to, the preparation and editing of this book.

About the Author

Arnold S. Rosenberg is an attorney in private practice in San Francisco, California. He grew up a Conservative Jew in Rochester, New York, where he learned much of what he knows about Judaism from Rabbi Abraham J. Karp, and Cantor Samuel Rosenbaum. After graduating from Cornell University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he attended Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1976. Mr. Rosenberg spent the next four years as a poverty lawyer in a Mexican barrio in Chicago, Illinois. Following a stint as a labor lawyer in Chicago and New York, he moved to San Francisco, where he and his family have lived since 1983. He has been married to Nelly Reyes for 14 years. They have two children, Julian and Nina.

Bibliography

Abrahams, Israel, A Companion to the Authorized Daily Prayerbook (printed London 1922; reprinted New York: Hermon Press, 1966)

Armstrong, A.H., Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1986)

Arzt, Max, Joy and Remembrance (Bridgeport, Conn.: Hartmore House, 1979)

Ben-Or, Ehud, Worship of the Heart (Albany: State University of New York, 1995)

Biale, Rachel, Women and Jewish Law (New York: Schocken Books, 1984)

Bickermann, Elias, The Civic Prayer for Jerusalem, Harvard Theological Review, vol. 55, p. 163 (1962)

Blidstein, Gerald J., Kaddish and Other Accidents, 14 Tradition 80 (1974)

Blumenthal, David, Understanding Jewish Mysticism, Vol. II (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1982)

Bokser, Ben Zion, The Thread of Blue, 31 Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, p. 1 (1963)

Bonwick, James, Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (Indian Hills, Colorado: Falcons Wing Press, 1956)

Boyce, Mary, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1979)

Bradshaw, Paul F. and Lawrence A. Hoffman (eds.), The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)

, The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)

Brody, Robert, Morning Benedictions at Qumran? 81 Tarbiz 493 (1982)

Caquot, A., and M. Sznycer, Ugaritic Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1980)

Cohen, Chayim, Was the P Document Secret? 1 Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 39 (1969)

Cohen, Steven and Kenneth Brander (eds.), The Yeshiva University Haggada (New York: Yeshiva University, 1985)

Cohen, Jeffrey M., 1,001 Questions and Answers on Pesach (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 1996)

, Blessed are You: a Comprehensive Guide to Jewish Prayer (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 1993)

, Horizons of Jewish Prayer (London: United Synagogue, 1986)

, Prayer and Penitence: A Commentary on the High Holy Day Machzor (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1994)

Cohen, Naomi G., The Nature of Shimon HaPekulis Act, 52 Tarbiz 547 (1983) (Hebrew)

Cumont, Franz, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism (New York: Dover, 1956) (reprint of 1911 original edition)

Donin, Hayim Halevy, To Pray as a Jew (New York: Basic Books, 1980)

Dreyfus, A. Stanley, The Gates Liturgies: Reform Judaism Reforms Its Worship, in Paul F. Bradshaw and Lawrence Hoffman (eds.), The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)

Elbogen, Ismar, Jewish Liturgy: a Comprehensive History (1913; translation by Raymond Scheindlin, Jewish Publication Society, New York, 1993)

, Studies in Jewish Liturgy, in Jakob Petuchowski (ed.), Contributions to the Scientific Study of Jewish Liturgy (New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1970)

Fine, Lawrence, Safed Spirituality (New York: Paulist Press, 1984)

Finkelstein, Louis, The Birkat Ha-Mazon, 19 J.Q.R 211 (1929)

, The Oldest Midrash: Pre-Rabbinic Ideals and Teachings in the Passover Haggada, Harvard Theological Review, vol. xxxi (1938)

, The Origin of the Hallel, Hebrew Union College Annual, vol. 23, p. 319 (1950)

, The Origin of the Synagogue, Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research, vol. 1, p. 49 (1928)

, Pre-Maccabean Documents in the Passover Haggada, Harvard Theological Review, vol. xxxv (1942)

Fleischer, Ezra, On the Beginnings of Obligatory Jewish Prayer (Hebrew), Tarbiz, vol. 59, p. 397 (1990)

, The Shemone Esre Its Character, Internal Order, Content and Goals, 62 Tarbiz 179 (1993)

Flusser, David, Some of the Precepts of the Torah From Qumran (4QMMT) and the Benediction Against the Heretics, 61 Tarbiz 333 (1992)

Fraade, Steven, From Tradition to Commentary; Tradition and Its Interpretation in the Midrash to Deuteronomy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).

Freehof, Solomon, Devotional Literature in the Vernacular, Central Conference of American Rabbis vol. 33 (1923)

, The Origin of the Tachanun Prayers, Hebrew Union College Annual, vol. 2 (1925), 339-350

Frye, Richard N., Qumran and Iran: the State of Studies, in J. Neusner (ed.), Christianity, Judaism, and Other Greco-Roman Cults (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1975)

Gandz, Solomon, The Robeh or the Official Memorizer of the Palestinian Schools, 7 Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 5 (1935)

Garcia, Martinez, Florentino, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated (Leiden: E.J. Brill and Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1996)

Ginzberg, Louis A., A Commentary on the Palestinian Talmud, Vol. I (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1941)

Gordon, Martin L., Netilat Yadayim Shel Shaharit: Ritual of Crisis or Dedication? 8 Gesher 36 (1981)

Gradwohl, R., Eine Ueberfluessige Textanderung, Tradition und Erneuerung , vol. 40 (1976)

Greenberg, Moshe, Biblical Prose Prayer as a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)

Grishaver, Joel L., 19 Out of 18 (Los Angeles: Torah Aura Productions, 1991)

Hammer, Reuven, Entering Jewish Prayer (New York: Schocken Books, 1993)

Handel, Yitzchak, Educational Principles of the Haggada (Handel), in Cohen & Brander, The Yeshiva University Haggada, supra.

Handy, Lowell K., Among the Host of Heaven: the Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1994)

Haran, Menahem, Priest, Temple, and Worship, 48 Tarbiz 175 (1978)

, Temples and Temple-Service in Ancient Israel (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1985)

Harlow, Jules (ed.), Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (New York: The Rabbinical Assembly, 1972)

, Revising the Liturgy for Conservative Jews, in Paul F. Bradshaw and Lawrence A. Hoffman (eds.), The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship»

Look at similar books to Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship»

Discussion, reviews of the book Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System: A Prayer-By-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.