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Jewish benediction
Answer for the clue "Jewish benediction ", 6 letters:
amidah
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The Amidah ( Hebrew : תפילת העמידה, Tefilat HaAmidah , "The Standing Prayer"), also called the Shmoneh Esreh ( שמנה עשרה , "The Eighteen", in reference to the original number of constituent blessings : there are now nineteen), is the central prayer of the ...
Usage examples of amidah.
Though Aaron no longer whispers questions to God during the Silent Amidah, part of him has never stopped praying for revelation.
Silent Amidah, Aaron and Eliza play a game called Sheep that both claim to have invented.
When they stand for the Silent Amidah they never know whether to focus on the prayerbook or upon a distant point, looking thoughtful.
He would recite the Amidah and sit down before I was halfway through, even though I skipped a lot.
Eliza thinks back to countless Amidahs spent waiting to hear that voice.
Silent Amidah, the time of the Shabbat service meant for personal prayer, Aaron tenders up his own question, too shy to more than whisper the words inside his head: There were a lot of people on that plane.
In the morning and afternoon prayers, the tradition for communal worship was to recite the Amidah privately, silently, in a whisper or in a quiet voice, and then have the chazzan, the cantor, chant it aloud when everyone had finished their private recitation.
If a minyan was not present, the Chazzan could not repeat the Amidah, the Kaddishes could not be said, and the Torah and Haftorah could not be chanted.