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Podcast: Temple Beth Am Podcasts
Episode: Rembaum Institute for Adult Education and Family Programming: "The Poetry of Prayer"
Description: This is the first in a series of 7 classes on The Poetry of Prayer conducted by Rabbi Joel Rembaum in preparation for this year's High Holy Days..
The prayers and psalms that fill our Mahzor (High Holiday prayerbook) and Siddur (regular prayerbook) have been gathered together to form a vehicle for finding our own meaningful relationship with God and to teach us the basic principles of our faith in God. They are written either as poems or suffused with poetry. As such, they constitute a spiritual art form that calls upon each of us to find our...