This is the view of Tractate Soferim 17:11 as well as Alfasi and Maimonides (Hil'khot
Tefillah 7:12).
Tefillah were a gift from my parents, both of them, on my Bar Mitzvah.
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173ff.; and Ezra Fleischer,
Tefillah u-Minhagei
Tefillah Eretz Yiraelim be-Tekufat ha-Genizah (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1988), pp.
It has given me a greater sense of confidence regarding my regular, daily fulfilment of
tefillah (prayer) as a religious responsibility.
We were even danced around the beit
tefillah in the woods, receiving an aliyah that Shabbat to celebrate our engagement.
"We recognize that this type of
tefillah [prayer] is not practiced in other Orthodox synagogues," the email said.
They see people waiting along the wall, some with tears in their eyes, swaying in
tefillah, or prayer, "like trees in the wind." What do the many little papers stuffed between the cracks mean and why does no one touch or read them?
The counterterrorist operation "Cast Lead" is being accompanied by "Operation
Tefillah, Torah and Troops," initiated by Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook, the chief rabbi of Rehovot, and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe who now lives in the Har Nof community of Jerusalem.
Levy wrote that the American Reform synagogue "has generally defaulted on all three" of its traditional functions: as a beth
Tefillah (a house of prayer), a beth Midrash (a house of study), and a beth Knesset (a house of meeting).