Pathway to Prayer - Ashkenaz Wedding communal rituals and profound religious

communal rituals and profound religious meaning of each of the five central Jewish holidays

he helps crystallize what exactly we are yearning for when we say that we want Mashiach

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One might think that the ideas Judaism introduced into the world have become part of the common intellectual heritage of humankind

Pathway to Prayer - Ashkenaz Wedding communal rituals and profound religiousRabbi Meir Birnbaum is a scholar of tefillah and mashgiach of a major yeshivah. In this splendidly useful phrase by phrase treatment, he combines his scholarship and experience to shed light on the prayers that matter enormously to most people: the Shemoneh Esrai prayers of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Rabbi Birnbaum combs the major commentators and adds his own knowledge and sensitivity to produce a volume that belongs alongside every machzor. It is