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Amidah

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Amidah [amiˈdaː aˈmidə]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) Judaism the central prayer in each of the daily services, recited silently and standing Also called Shemona Esrei


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A popular primer on Judaism by Michael Fishbane mentions it only twice--once in a quotation of the "Thirteen Principles" and once when explaining how nineteenth-century Reform Jews obscured or removed the explicit resurrection language in the Amidah.
He was saying the Modim in the Amidah and he bowed.
In the morning one says the tefilah which began, "God of my Soul, which you have returned within me [mi Dio del alma que diste en mi]," (23) and afterward [some Psalms of David], the Shemah Israel, and later the Amidah .
 
 
 
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