Blessings and Thanksgiving: Reflections on the Siddur and Synagogue Tapa dura -

Hardback. New.

Maggid, 2019. Hardcover. New. 195 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.80 inches.

Maggid. New. New Maggid, 2019-02-18 New This volume contains ten studies on prayer, based on previously unpublished manuscripts and edited transcripts of public lectures, as well as essays newly translated from Yiddish and Hebrew, by Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik Prayer was a central concern of the Rav, and he approached this theme in a variety of different modes As the editors write in their preface to the volume, Blessings and Thanksgiving is "more concerned with the text and texture of prayer than with its underlying structure In these lectures the Rav plumbs many of the details of prayer instead of restricting himself to examples that further his systematic argument He addresses individual prayers and blessings in their particularity Without these essays, the Rav's philosophy of prayer would be drastically incomplete"