For many Jews, the Days of Awe are the one time of year to experience prayer services. An essential part of those services is the weekday Amidah, a prayer said standing, punctuated by silence and ...

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The focus of the Amidah, the core prayer of the daily liturgy, is inwards. It is recited quietly, with little physical movement. As its name suggests, one stands during the Amidah, with legs placed ...

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Unlike the weekday Amidah, which contains nineteen blessings, the Amidah for Shabbat contains only seven. Why seven? The Talmud (Berachot 29a) explains that these seven blessings correspond to the ...

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Before the Amidah, the custom is take three steps back and then three steps forward. The idea is to step into a place of prayer, a different headspace that is more than a few inches distant from where ...

There is a short version of the weekday Amidah, which can be said when one is very pushed for time. The practice stems from a disagreement in Mishnah Berachot: “Rabban Gamliel says, a person should ...