Themes Theology of Jewish Prayer

Prayer means learning how to speak with God

Beyond services and synagogue, the challenge of living a prayerful life

I have to eat in holiness and purity, because I am doing God's will by eating.

Liturgical texts are only the external, observable part of the experience of prayer, which should lift up the soul.

Praying With body & soul.

Jews pray in order to enrich our lives and seek comfort, to connect to the past and to others, to celebrate and develop a sense of the sacred, to serve God and help make ourselves Godlike.

The Talmudic rabbis crafted a formula that moves from addressing God to speaking about God. What did they mean to convey through this dual formula?