Gabbai (pl. gabbaim) is an Aramaic word that means tax collector, but today a gabbai is someone who assists with the reading of the Torah.
A Jewish woman prays from the heart.
How Orthodox women found a halakhic way to be involved in services.
The essence of Kaddish may be less in the meaning of the words than in the experience of reciting it with other Jews.
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Texts, translations and transliterations.
Statements of belief through the ages.
Is the siddur a holy text or crib notes for a conversation with God?
The formal call to worship in morning and evening services.
Confessing your sins every day, twice a day, for the rest of your life.
Talmudic discussion of the liturgical use of Psalms 113-118 focuses on how the Psalms incorporate gratitude for God's past acts of salvation and confidence in God's future redemption of Israel.
Also known as shuckling, this movement is particularly common in Hasidic worship.