WORSHIP OF THE HEART

Essays on Jewish Prayer

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

1. Prayer and the Media of Religious Experience
2. Prayer, Petition and Crisis
3. The Human Condition and Prayer
4. Exaltation of God and Redemption of the Aesthetic
5. The Absence of God and the Community of Prayer
6. Intention (Kavvanah) in Reading Shema and in Prayer
7. The Essence of Shema: Unity of God, Love of God, and the Study of His Law
8. Immanence and Transcendence: Comments on Birkat Yotzer Or
9. Accepting the Yoke of Heaven
10. Reflections on the Amidah