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Thanking God for the Temple service and for accepting our prayers. Modim מודים General thanksgiving. As the Chazan says this prayer in the repetition, the congregation reads a paragraph of thanksgiving silently. Shalom שלום Thanking God for bringing peace into the world. When the Priestly Blessing is said it is added here.
Pages in category "Aramaic words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Maariv or Maʿariv (Hebrew: מַעֲרִיב, [maʔaˈʁiv]), also known as Arvit, or Arbit (Hebrew: עַרְבִית, ), is a Jewish prayer service held in the evening or night. It consists primarily of the evening Shema and Amidah. The service will often begin with two verses from Psalms, followed by the communal recitation of Barechu.
Barechu (Hebrew: ברכו, lit. 'to bless'; may also be transliterated as bar'chu or barekhu) is a part of the Jewish prayer service, functioning as a call to prayer. [1] The wording has its origins in Psalms (134: 1-2, 135: 19-20), but the blessing was standardized later, in the Talmud. [2] [3]
Prayer in Judaism is called avodah shebalev ("service of the heart"). Thus, prayer is meaningful only if one focuses one's emotions and intention (kavanah) on the words of the prayers. The Shulchan Aruch thus advises that one pray using a translation one can understand (i.e., one's vernacular), but learning the meaning of the Hebrew liturgy is ...
Kavanah in prayer requires devotional belief and not merely reciting the words of a prayer. [7] According to Sutnick, this implies that the worshiper understand the words of the prayer and mean it, but this can be difficult for many Jews today when they pray using liturgical Hebrew , which many Jews outside of Israel do not understand.
For example, the Mishnah mentions that the Shema need not be said in Hebrew. [17] A list of prayers that must be said in Hebrew is given in the Mishna, [18] and among these only the Priestly Blessing is in use today, as the others are prayers that are to be said only in a Temple in Jerusalem, by a priest, or by a reigning King.
Berakhot (Hebrew: בְּרָכוֹת, romanized: Brakhot, lit."Blessings") is the first tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.The tractate discusses the rules of prayers, particularly the Shema and the Amidah, and blessings for various circumstances.