Kavvana: Table of Contents

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PART I: Kavvana for Prayer in Jewish Law

  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Age-Old Problem of Rote Prayer

  • Chapter 2. Prayer without Kavvana

PART II: Kavvana for Prayer in Jewish Thought

  • Chapter 3. What is Prayer and How Does it Make Sense?

  • Chapter 4. God and Man in Simple Prayer

  • Chapter 5. Going Beyond Simple Prayer: Rationalism and Mysticism

  • Chapter 6. Rational Prayer in Modern Times

  • Chapter 7. Kavvana for Prayer in Jewish Thought: Summary and Conclusions

PART III: Kavvana and the Siddur

  • Chapter 8. Prayer as a Fixed Text

  • Chapter 9. Rambam on Prayer as a Fixed Text

  • Chapter 10. Afterword: Implications of Current Scholarship

  • Chapter 11. The Triumph on the Fixed Prayer-Book and Its Ramifications for Meaningful Prayer

PART IV. Kavvana in Practice

  • Chapter 12. Making Prayer a True Conversation with God

Additional Readings on Prayer

  1. Saadya Gaon (Emunot ve-De`ot)

  2. Rabbenu Bahya ibn Pakuda (Hovot ha-Levavot)

  3. Rabbi Yehudah Halevi (Kuzari)

  4. Rambam (Moreh ha-Nevukhim)

  5. Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (Or Hashem)

  6. Rabbi Yosef Albo (Sefer ha-Ikkarim)

  7. Maharal of Prague (Netiv ha-Avoda)

  8. Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (Hovat ha-Talmidim)

  9. "The Many Possible Meanings of Kavvana" (David R. Blumenthal)

Supplementary Materials

  • Glossary of Hebrew Terms, Rabbinic Works and Authorities

  • The History and Philosophy of Prayer: Explanatory Bibliography

  • Index

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