Jewish Prayer

How the Book of Job made its way into Jewish prayer and ritual.

Modelled on the Jewish practice of counting the Omer, this prayer is for those counting their days in quarantine or lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

Reveling in uniqueness is wonderful, proclaiming superiority is not.

The Modim prayer, part of the Amidah, in Hebrew, English and transliteration.

Hebrew, English translation, and transliteration for the prayer recited as the Torah is removed from the ark.

The complete text of Al Hanisim for Hanukkah in Hebrew, English, and transliteration.

This prayer expresses gratitude for the miracle of healing and full restoration to life.

The famous thirteen articles of Jewish faith, sung in many congregations at the close of Shabbat services, in Hebrew, transliteration, and English translation.

A prayer that seems to be about certainty turns out to actually be all about doubt and the limits of our own knowledge.

The Talmud teaches that one who recites Ashrei three times daily is guaranteed a place in the World to Come.