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August 17, 2023

The Origins of Jewish Prayer

The 9th-century siddur from which all others descend.

In a four-part series, Yosef Lindell traces the history of Jewish liturgy, from the biblical phrases and motifs that were later used by the authors of prayers, to the first rabbinic accounts of formal prayer, to the evolution of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and other variant liturgies, to modern changes to these texts. He writes:

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