Description
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s discussions on the practice of prayer. Prayer is analyzed across a broad and complex spectrum in Soloveitchik’s work, and his writings describing and analyzing the experience of prayer afford a profound insight into its diversity, ranging from existential crisis to communion with God.
Through a careful reading of R. Soloveitchik’s texts dealing with this topic, the book follows the consciousness of prayer across its various stages until maturity, starting with an analysis of Worship of the Heart, through to Reflections on the Amidah and other writings.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Worship of the Heart: The Consciousness of Prayer
- Chapter One: Nature and Purpose
- Chapter Two: The Consciousness of Prayer: An Outline
- Chapter Three: The Consciousness of Prayer: The Subjective and the Objective
- Chapter Four: The Consciousness of Prayer: The Process of Consolidation
- Chapter Five: The Path of the Consciousness of Prayer to Perfection
- Chapter Six: The Dialectic of Consciousness: Between Reading Shema and Prayer
- Chapter Seven: The Interpretation of Reading Shema and Its Blessings: (1) Methodology and Sources
- Chapter Eight: The Interpretation of Reading Shema and Its Blessings: (2) Application
- Part II. "Reflections on the Amidah" in Perspective
- Chapter Nine: Prayer and Redemption
- Chapter Ten: Covering the Profound: The Legal-Halakhic Dimension of the Amidah
- Chapter Eleven: Interpretation of the Amidah Prayer
- Part III. Community
- Chapter Twelve: Synagogue and Community
- Summation: The Consciousness of Prayer
- Bibliography
- Index
