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Jewish worship
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Published
Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.
Edition
[1st ed.].
ISBN
0827600038, 9780827600034
Physical Desc
xxiii, 673 pages 22 cm
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Available from another library
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult | 296.45 Millgram 1971 | On Shelf |
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Published
Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.
Format
Book
Edition
[1st ed.].
Language
English
ISBN
0827600038, 9780827600034
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-648).
Description
This work of immense Scholarship (673 pages) is well-documented and written with scholarship and love. Chapter 7 deals with Shabbat liturgy (p. 161-198), which is discussed in detail with a special focus on historical development.
Language
Text in English.
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Table of Contents
The Siddur: a precious spiritual possession
The Jewish book of common prayer
A unique product of the Jewish genius
A mirror of the Jewish soul
A beloved treasure
What is prayer?
The heart has many chambers
Prayers of petition
Thanksgiving and praise
Study as a form of worship
The ideal prayer
The spiritual crisis of the modern Jew
Is prayer answered?
Some theological questions and answers
In defense of prayer
"The righteous lives by his faith"
The mystic experience
A spiritual force
How to pray
Kavvanah, the key to prayer
Spontaneity and regularity in prayer
Preparation for prayer
Praying with the congregation
Praying for the congregation
The language of prayer
The holy tongue
An intelligent piety
Part One: The foundations of Jewish worship
1. Hebrew worship in ancient days
The temple cult
A glance at thirteen hundred years of history
The sacrificial cult in primitive society
The sacrificial cult in Israel
The centralization of worship in Jerusalem
Spiritualization of the temple service
The effect of the Babylonian captivity on the temple service
The temple service during the second commonwealth
The uniqueness of the temple service
The rationalization of the sacrificial cult
2. Prayer in Bible and temple days
Prayer in bible times
The book of Psalms
The origin of the synagogue
Study of the Torah as worship
The teachers of the synagogue
The liturgy of the temple service
The coexistence of the temple and the synagogue
3. National tragedy and spiritual consolidation
The reorganized Sanhedrin at Yavneh
Preservation of the memory of the temple
Rabbi Gamaliel II and the canonization of the liturgy
4. The framework of Jewish worship
The simple structure of the Jewish liturgy
The Hebrew benediction
The benediction: a foundation stone of Jewish prayer
The origin and development of the benediction
The importance of the benediction in Jewish worship
The shema: first core unit of the Jewish liturgy
The biblical selections of the shema
The benedictions of the shema in the morning service
The benedictions of the shema in the evening service
The tefillah: second core unit of the Jewish liturgy
Organization of the tefillah
The origin of the tefillah
The tefillah for Sabbaths, festivals, and holy days
The service of the heart
Teaching the Torah: third core unit of the Jewish liturgy
The benedictions of the Torah
The Torah portions read in the synagogue
Translation of the Torah reading into the vernacular
The privileged status of the Kohen and the Levite
The reading of the Haftarah
The homily in the ancient synagogue
The rabbis as teachers
Part two: The Siddur: its organization and contents.
5. A glance at eight centuries of Jewish history
The second revolt against Rome
The compilation of the Mishnah
The ascendancy of the Babylonian Jewish community
The age of the geonim
The rise of Mohammedanism and the Karaite schism
6. Expansion of the weekday services
The enlargement of the shema benedictions
The nineteenth benediction of the tefillah
The Kedushah
Prayers for rain
The modem of the rabbis
The variant version of the last benediction
The concluding prayer of the tefillah
The abbreviated tefillah
The introductory prayer sections
The verses of praise
The early morning benedictions
The morning blessings
The obligation to study Torah
The abbreviated shema
Symbolic participation in the temple ritual
Preparation for the morning prayers
"A redeemer will come to Zion"
The Kaddish
The reader's Kaddish
The afternoon service
The evening service
7. The crystallization of the Sabbath services
The Friday evening service
The seven benedictions
The congregational Kiddush
The Sabbath morning service
additional verses of praise
The new synagogue poetry (piyut)
Early pirutim in the Sabbath service
The Sabbath morning tefillah
Reading from the scriptures
The ritual of taking out and returning the scroll to the ark
Reading from the Torah
The official Torah reader
Reading from the prophets
Special prayers
The yekum purkan prayers
Prayer for the government
The additional (musaf) tefillah
The Kedushah of the musaf tefillah
The Sabbath afternoon service
Study of avot (fathers)
The Saturday evening service
8. The liturgy of the major festivals
Historic background
The Passover
The feast of weeks
The feast of tabernacles the second-day festival of the Diaspora
The liturgy of the major festivals
The essential benediction of the festival tefillah
The hallel
The readings from the scriptures
The festival musaf tefillah
The priestly blessing
The intermediate days of the festivals
Special prayer units in the festival liturgy
Counting the Omer
Hoshanot
Prayers for rain and dew
Simhat Torah
9. The liturgy of the high holy days
The month of elul
The selihot services
The development of the selihot services
The thirteen divine attributes
The confession of sins
The Rosh Hashanah services
The Shaharit service
The scriptural readings
The shofar service
The musfar service
The ten days of penitence
The day of atonement
The kol nidre "prayer"
The Yom Kippur evening service
The confession of sins
The selihot of the Yom Kippur services
The shaharit and musaf services
The avodah
The scriptural readings
The readings from the prophets
The afternoon and the closing services.
10. The liturgy of the minor festivals and fast days
The semifestival of the new moon
The liturgy of Rosh Hodesh
Blessing the new month
The consecration of the moon
The feasts of Hanukah and Purim
The liturgy of the feast of lights
The liturgy of the feast of lots
The major and minor fast days
The fast of Tish Be-Av
The three weeks
The evening service
The morning service
The afternoon service
Words of comfort
Other fast days commemorating the fall of the temple
The fast of Esther
The fast of the firstborn
Completing the study of a Rabbinic text
11. Private and home worship
Prayers at rising in the morning and retiring at night
Grace before and after meals
Home worship on Sabbaths and festivals
Kindling the Sabbath and festival lights
The Kiddush
The Havdalah
The Passover Seder
Early stages in the development of the Seder
The preliminary part of the Seder
The organization pattern of the Haggadah
Some additional domestic rites
The search for leaven
Building a Sukkah
Kindling the Hanukah lights
12. Rites of initiation, marriage, and burial
The covenant of Abraham
Redemption of the firstborn
Admission of proselytes
The marriage service
Funeral rites
confession on the deathbed
The funeral oration
Justifying the divine dispensations
13. Rites, symbols, and ceremonies of Jewish worship
The place of worship
Synagogue architecture
The synagogue interior
Torah ornaments
Women's gallery
Storeroom for discarded sacred texts
Art in the synagogue
The congregational quorum
Ritual garb
The Tallit
The Tefillin
Shoes and hats
Deportment at worship
Silence and loudness
Postures at prayer
Symbolic gestures
Acts of expiation, atonement, and mourning
The music of the synagogue
Cantillations of the Bible
Traditional chants of the liturgy
The end of the matter
14. The First Siddur
The oral tradition of the synagogue
The development of local rites
The crystallization of local rites
The mainstreams of the tradition
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Minhagim
Some liturgic differences
Coexistence of the Minhagim
Reciprocal influence
Should there be a uniform Minhag in all synagogues?
Relaxation of the ban on transcribing the prayers
Rabbi Amram Goan's Siddur
Rabbi Saadia Goan's Siddur
The first Ashkenazic Siddur.
15. The theology of the Siddur
"Our Father, our king"
"The Lord is one"
God's "treasured possession"
God's covenant with Israel
The Messianic ideal in Judaism
The kingship of God
Prayers for the coming of the Messiah
The rabbinic theodicy
The people and the land of Israel
"I am the Lord your God"
16. Ethical teachings in the Siddur
Moral behavior in the liturgy
Restraint in the face of abuse
Reverence of God's name
Concern for the unlettered
The sanctification of God's name
Kiddush Hashem in the liturgy
"You shall be holy to your God"
Part Three: Expansion of the Siddur during the Middle Ages
17. The Synagogue's confrontation with the church
The parting of the ways
Hostility between the Jews and the early Christians
Anti-Christian polemics in the Jewish liturgy
Adjustment under adversity
The Justinian edict
Strategy of resistance
The legacy of the crusaders
The slaughter of the Jews in the Rhineland
Yahrzeit and Yizkor observances
The unending medieval persecutions
Christian sermons in the synagogue
Censorship of the Alenu prayer
The somber nature of medieval prayers
Dirges and martyrologies
Penitential prayers (Tahanun)
Effects of persecution on the religious poetry
Church and synagogue (Two views)
18. New institutions and new prayers
The Bar Mitzvah observance
The Torah processions on Simhat Torah (Hakafot)
Casting away the sins (Tashlik)
The Sabbath evening parental blessings
Occasional prayers
Devotional prayers in the Vernacular (Tehinnot)
19. The mystic stream in Jewish liturgy
Some aspects of Jewish mysticism
The early mystics and their impact on the liturgy
The central European mystics and the cult of the prayer book
The Zohar (The book of splendor)
The golden age of Kabbalism
Rabbi Isaac Luria and his disciples
Kabbalistic influences on the Siddur
Mystic meditations
Kabbalistic prayers
Table hymns (Zemirot)
Welcoming the Sabbath
Moments of divine grace
Midnight vigils
The early risers
Whole-night vigils
The impact of the Kabbala on the Siddur.
20. The liturgy of the Hasidim
Some Hasidic doctrines
How to pray
Aids to prayer
Changes in the liturgy
The Shtiebel
Conflict with the Mitnagdim
An enlightened view of Hasidism
21. The rise of Hazanut
The role of the Hazan
The musical tradition of the synagogue
Foreign music in the synagogue
The florid style of Hazanut
Excesses and decline
Reactions to the excesses of the Hazanim
Renewal of Hazanut in the modern synagogue
22. The decline of preaching
The master preachers of old
Prolongation of the services by Piyutim
Prolongation of the services by Hazanut
The medieval Rabbi
The Rabbinate as an honorary occupation
Preaching in the Sephardic synagogue
The professionalization of the Rabbinate
The itinerant preacher (Maggid)
The framework of the Maggid's sermon
The Dubno Maggid
Renewal of Rabbinic preaching in modern times
23. The invention of the printing press
The printed Siddur
Competition among publishers
The genesis of the Ashkenazic Mahzor
Consolidation of Minhagim
Handy collections
The beloved Siddur
24. The synagogue in premodern times
The synagogue triumphant
The synagogue as a house of prayer
Informality at worship
The synagogue as a house of study
The synagogue as a center of community life
The seat of self-government
Democracy in the synagogue
The functionaries of the synagogue
The synagogue aristocracy
Women in the synagogue
Children in the synagogue
The end of an era
Conclusion
Jewish worship in modern times
Correcting the text of the Siddur
Decorum at prayer
Translation of the prayers
The pitfalls of translation
English translations of the Siddur
Enrichment of the traditional prayer book
Radical reform of the liturgy
The prayer book of the German reform
Synagogue
The reform movement in America
Abbreviation of the liturgy
Changes motivated by the New theology
Transformation of the rituals
Criticism of the reform prayer book
Counterreform
The founding of the conservative movement
The reconstructionist prayer book
Revisions of The Union Prayerbook
The Dillema of the modern Jew
Why some have ceased to pray
"The righteous shall live by his faith."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Millgram, A. E. (1971). Jewish worship ([1st ed.].). Jewish Publication Society of America.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Millgram, Abraham Ezra, 1901-1998. 1971. Jewish Worship. Jewish Publication Society of America.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Millgram, Abraham Ezra, 1901-1998. Jewish Worship Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Millgram, Abraham Ezra. Jewish Worship [1st ed.]., Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.
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