The Cosmic Power of Shabbat - Competing Images in Zemirot
Rabbi Josh Cahan is Beit Midrash Director at JTS and a Ph.D. candidate in Talmud. He is also the director of the Northwoods Summer Kollel at Ramah Wisconsin.
We will analyze the first blessing of the Amidah as a way of approaching the question: Are traditional prayer formulas able to express my own values/ideas of prayer? What do you do when you “disagree” with the prayer's content? We will analyze the original Biblical context to help us connect to the prayer.