Siddur Study Class led by Bob Lowe

Sunday, Feb 2, 2:00 to 3:30 PM –

Open to all who are interested. If you’d like to attend, please contact Bob Lowe at bob.pnaior@gmail.com for location and reading material.

Would you like to know more about what is going on in our prayer services? This intro class will present a “macro” view of the Siddur (prayer book), about how the morning prayer service takes us through the four worlds of Kabbalah and, in doing so, mirrors how we received the Torah on Mt. Sinai. With this perspective, we’ll take a quick walk through the individual prayers and see how they fit in to this journey. If we have time, we’ll take on one example of the challenge of prayers that can be off-putting because of their apparent inconsistencies with our personal values. We’ll do so by taking on one of the most uncomfortable – and most frequent – words in our blessings: “Melech,” usually translated as King. We’ll unpack alternative interpretations of this word.