Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer (Meotzar Horav)

The biblical command to serve God "with all your heart" is interpreted by Jewish tradition as referring to prayer. The Rav here explores the crucial interface between living religious experience and halakhic norms. He analyzes the Amidah, the Shema, and other biblical and liturgical texts, and considers the tension between human dependence and exaltation, the ethical and the aesthetic, the presence and absence of God, and the yearning for stability and the desire for change.Shalom Carmy is the author of 'Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer (Meotzar Horav)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780881257717 and ISBN 0881257710.