Prayer Points — Infuse Your Prayer with Light and Insights
Prayer Points — Infuse Your Prayer with Light and Insights
You have said these words since you were a child, and most of them go past without landing. What are you actually saying when you daven, and why is each phrase placed exactly where it is?
Four hundred and thirty-four pages take the davening phrase by phrase — beginning with the words a person says before he starts, then the brachos of the morning and the pesukei d'zimra — each phrase with its meaning and the reason it stands exactly where it does. It is a running commentary rather than a translation.
The Tur and the Rosh sit behind the explanations, with Rashi and the Midrash.
For the mispallel who wants to know what is coming out of his mouth.
Rabbi Nachman Wilhelm is the founder and dean of Online Smicha, and was a rosh yeshiva in St. Paul for fourteen years.
434 pages · hardcover or paperback · 6 × 9 in · English
What is inside
199 tefillos, taken phrase by phrase. A few of them:
- Davening at the proper time
- Shacharis for weekdays
- Shacharis
- Morning Blessings
- King of the universe
- You preserve it within me
- Who gives strength to the weary
- Who crowns the people of Israel with glory
- Who has not made me a gentile
- And make us cleave to Your commandments
- and 189 more
Masechtos cited
Shabbos · Rosh Hashanah · Taanis · Yevamos · Sotah · Zevachim · Berachos · Pesachim · Sukkah · Chagigah · Kesubos · Nedarim
Sources
Rosh · Gemara · Tur · Rashi · Midrash · Shach · Rambam · Zohar · Chofetz Chaim · Shulchan Aruch · Vilna Gaon · Ramban
434 pages · 6 x 9 in · English