Class 13. 3/1 Prayer as theology and practice
Iranian Jews at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, Yazd, 420 milies south of Tehran
Service at Kesher ZIon Synagogue, Reading, Pennsylvania (Conservative)
Robinson, Essential Judaism, ch. 1, “Service of the Heart: Prayer and Ritual Download Service of the Heart: Prayer and Ritual,” 7–26; 46–55.
Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (1962), “God Felt as a Presence Download God Felt as a Presence,” 243–264.
In Jewish tradition, what is the function of individual prayer? What is the function of communal prayer?