Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, “Man’s Quest for God.” This week, we discuss “The Doctrine of Agnosticism,” in which Heschel claims we have divorced God from prayer and banished prayer from the synagogue. As a result, the soul of the […]

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, “Man’s Quest for God.” This week, we discuss “Spiritual Absenteeism,” in which Heschel challenges the modern American synagogue, and the worshippers therein, to bring more spirit, soulfulness, and emotion into congregational prayer. How can our […]

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, “Man’s Quest for God.” This week, we discuss “Praying by Proxy,” and wonder: “Has the temple become the graveyard where prayer is buried?” Does synagogue prayer move you? Should it? How can our places of […]

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, “Man’s Quest for God.” This week, we discuss the “Separation of Church and God,” and wonder whether we can or should bring God back to shul. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/067.mp3Podcast: Download

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, “Man’s Quest for God.” This week, we discuss the purpose of the ancient sacrificial system, and the way in which prayer is meant to be a substitute for sacrifice. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/066.mp3Podcast: Download

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss the meaning and purpose of prayer. This week, we continue discussing a recent essay by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson about conceptualizing prayer in a way that makes sense with our beliefs about God. You can read the essay here, and join the conversation. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/065.mp3Podcast: Download

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss the meaning and purpose of prayer. This week, we discuss a recent essay by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson about conceptualizing prayer in a way that makes sense with our beliefs about God. You can read the essay here, and join the conversation. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/064.mp3Podcast: Download

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss the meaning and purpose of prayer. This week, we discuss a recent essay by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson about conceptualizing prayer in a way that makes sense with our beliefs about God. You can read the essay here, and join the conversation. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/063.mp3Podcast: Download

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, ”Man’s Quest for God.” his week, we discuss whether it matters if you understand and/or know how to recite the formal Hebrew prayers of the prayerbook. What do you think? http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/062.mp3Podcast: Download

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Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students discuss Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s monumental collection of essays on Jewish prayer, ”Man’s Quest for God.” This week, we discuss whether prayer is supposed to be about us talking to God, or us allowing God to talk to us. What do you think? http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/061.mp3Podcast: Download

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