on the Shabbat Services and the Daily Amidah
The modern western world has had a profound impact on all who live within it. While our Jewish prayers speak to the personal experiences of our lives, from birth to death, through love and loss, in suffering and in joy, as individuals and as part of the Jewish people, much of the language and many of the assumptions belong to a very different understanding of the world, the universe and God. The following materials are intended to raise some of the questions we bring to the prayers we recite or offer another way of expressing the ideas and hopes they contain. The passages may be used alone or together, for private or public reading, as alternative ‘reflections’on the traditional prayers. Further reflections on the themes of the service can be found in the Study Anthology.
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