prayer

Asking God for peace and protection in this evening prayer.

Confessing your sins every day, twice a day, for the rest of your life.

Prayer remains vital to our religious experience, even if God doesn't swoop down to remove tumors.

Traditional Judaism answers with an emphatic "yes!"

Sometimes not understanding the words can actually enhance the experience of prayer.

These 150 Hebrew poems are central to Jewish prayer and the inspiration for countless forms of creative expression in Western culture.

The texts and practices of prayer, while broadly common to all Jewish communities, vary according to local customs, ethnic origins, and ideologies.

A religious poem recited on the High Holidays that is meant to strike fear in us.

The prayer for "our father, our king," said on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Commentaries on the three paragraphs of the Shema read Jewish concepts both out of and into the text.