Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Translator’s Acknowledgements 1
4. Translator’s Introduction: Eliezer Schweid as Worshipper in the State of Israel 3
5. Author’s Preface: My Path to the Jewish Prayer Book (Siddur Hatefillah) 21
6. Introduction: The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book): Its Sources, Goal, and Theological Basis 30
7. 1. Worship of God and the Process of the Sacred Congregation’s Formation and Expression 45
8. 2. Prayer as a Form of Primal Expression of the Human Soul 83
9. 3. Torah and Prayer: The Problem of Love and Sin in the Relations between God and the Human Being 97
10. 4. The “Name and Kingship” Blessing as the Fundamental Rubric of Standing before God in Prayer 108
11. 5. Establishing the Covenant of Faith between the Individual Human Being and His God 118
12. 6. Principles of Faith 130
13. 7. The Keriyat Shema: The Covenant of Love between God and His People 155
14. 8. The Poetics of the Shema and the Shemoneh Esrei 173
15. 9. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: The Kedushah (Sanctification) and Ḥaninat Hada’at (God as Giver of Knowledge) 192
16. 10. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer—Requests by the Individual in the Assembly: Teshuvah (Repentance) and Forgiveness 206
17. 11. The Shemoneh Esrei Prayer: Redemption, Healing, and Livelihood 224
18. 12. The Shemoneh Esrei (Eighteen Benedictions) That Are Really Nineteen: Redemption from Deepening Exile 242
19. 13. The Shemoneh Esrei—Responding in Anticipation of Complete Redemption 272
20. 14. Types of Biblical Poetry as a Source of Prayer 295
21. 15. Between the Poetry of Prophecy and Prayer 314
22. 16. The Poetry of the Psalms: Personal-Soulful and Societal-Political Messages 343
23. 17. Hymnal Song for the Sabbath Day. The “Sign” between God and His Treasured Nation and the Isolation from Christianity 395
24. 18. Breaking the Boundary of Mystery between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Earth: Praying with Devekut (Adherence) and with Kavanah (Intention) 434
25. Epilogue 464
26. Glossary 473
27. Index 485
28. INDEX LOCORUM 500