Does Your Prayer Service Induce Boredom, or Is It Engaging and Uplifting?

From Section:
Trends in Jewish Education
Published:
Jun. 03, 2014
Summer, 2014

Source: Gleanings. Summer, 2014. Volume 1, Issue 3

 

What Jewish educator has not struggled with the challenges inherent in helping learners to find tefillah (prayer) a compelling experience? In this issue of Gleanings, outstanding teachers and leaders of tefillah, including graduates of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, The Rabbinical School, and H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music of The Jewish Theological Seminary, portray successes in this important field. Each writer focuses on different dimensions of the tefillah experience. They attend, variously, to the nature of the prayer community; the relationship between tefillah and music (in synagogues, day schools, and congregational schools); the kinds of music that can touch us; and the place that deep understanding of the words of the siddur (prayer book) has in touching our souls.

 

This issue contains the following articles:

  • Tefillah as Compelling Experience—Challenges and Successes
    Deborah Miller

  • Educators as First Responders: The Liturgical Interpreters Project
    Sarah Tauber and Jonathan Lipnick

  • Knowing Too Much and Not Enough: The Prayer Quandary
    Elie Kaunfer

  • Prayer-ful Students
    Nancy Parkes

  • Slow It Down, Speed It Up
    Israel Gordan

  • Engaging the Worshipper Through Music: Walking the Line Between Novelty and Tradition
    Mike Weis

  • A New Model for Prayer in a Pluralistic Day School
    Carol Rubin

  • Engagement with Tefillah
    Oren Kaunfer

Updated: Feb. 07, 2017
Keywords:
Liturgy | Music | Prayer