Jewish liturgy
What happens when an Ashkenazi rabbi leads a Sephardi synagogue during the Days of Awe? A profound encounter with new moods in Jewish life.
Joseph Roth’s flight without end.
Writing Hebrew poetry after Auschwitz, with help from the Jewish liturgy.
The rabbis saw no contradiction, only completion.
Naḥmanides and the Catalonian liturgy.
A rich and eclectic commentary combined with a Zionist outlook.
On the martyrs of Pittsburgh.
At prayer, with the heads of animals.
Vows and human frailty.
Nishmat starts with the wide-open sky and the wings of eagles; it ends deep inside the recesses of the body, in our vital organs.
A restoration of tradition.
The theological tension within an ancient prayer.
The terms Ashkenaz and Sefarad are found in the Bible, but most likely refer to areas of present-day Turkey and Armenia, respectively. How did they. . .
A traditional prayer for rain, recited on this week’s holiday of Shmini Atzeret, invokes a mysterious angel named Af-Bri. It seems this angel is the. . .