Prayer as strongbox

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: January 20, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Levi Cooper
Jerusalem Post
01-20-2006
Headline: Prayer as strongbox
Byline: Levi Cooper
Edition; Up Front
Section: Features
Page: 33

Friday, January 20, 2006 -- Is the identity of the authors of our supplications and their intentions of any significance when we stand in prayer before the Almighty? Perhaps the substance of our prayers is solely a function of the meaning we lend to the words we say? The Talmud appears to deem authorship important as it reports that Shimon HaPekuli arranged the order of 18 blessings that give the amida its synonomous title - the shemoneh esrei (the 18) (B. Berakhot ...

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