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	Aleinu
		The prayer Aleinu (“It is our duty to praise”) is the closing prayer of the morning, afternoon and evening service.
		Some believe Aleinu was written by Tanna Rav in 3rd century Babylonia for Rosh Hashanah services.
		Aleinu denotes the Jewish people’s struggle over being the “Chosen People” and the trials that arise with that responsibility.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/aleinu.html (521 words)

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		MINCHA Ashrei; Uva Letzion; Half-Kaddish; Shemonah Esrei of Yom Tov; the Chazzan's Repetition; Kaddish Tiskabel; Aleinu; Mourner's Kaddish.
		MINCHA Ashrei; Uva Letzion; Half-Kaddish; Shemonah Esrei of Yom Tov; Kaddish Tiskabel; Aleinu; Mourner's Kaddish.
		MINCHA For weekdays; Ashrei; Half-Kaddish; weekday Shemonah Esrei with Yaaleh Veyavo; the Chazzan's Repetition; Kaddish Tiskabel; Aleinu; Mourner's Kaddish.
	www.ezrastorah.org /Luach/5766/ET_5766.txt (17577 words)

	Aleinu - Introduction - History
		Accordingly, the prayer of Aleinu must be said with humility, intense concentration, and fear of Heaven (one should always try to have special Kavanah when saying it).
		The Aleinu is one of the oldest prayers of the nation.
		The edict added that the Aleinu prayer was to be recited aloud by the reader; commissioners were appointed to visit synagogues and enforce the implementation of the edict.
	www.aleinu.org /intro_history.html (1588 words)

	Aleinu.net
		Aleinu's Counseling Center provides therapy and intervention services for children, teens, adults, couples and families who need support with issues such as depression, anxiety, family stress and care-giving.
		Aleinu's crisis intervention team provides culturally sensitive assistance to the community, schools and the family after these terrifying crises occur.
		Usually, an Aleinu Family Resource Center staff person works with the family to discover their strengths and positives, set goals, determine major needs, and develop strength-based options to meet the needs.
	www.jfsla.org /cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?page_load=programs (501 words)

	The Problem with the Aleinu-Adoration
		In fact, the Aleinu was reformulated in Reform Judaism as early as 1841, when the West London Synagogue issued a prayerbook which excised the Aleinu's negative words.
		We sing this Hebrew version of the Aleinu to a tune that many consider to be the "traditional" melody for that prayer.
		The original Aleinu text includes a denunciation of idol worship, which was removed from European prayer books hundreds of years ago and isn't found even in the Orthodox prayer books of Ashkenazic Jews to this day.
	www.beth-elsa.org /be_s0112.htm (1349 words)

	Vanity, Emptiness and the Throne of Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The unique tenor of the 'Aleinu, full of confidence that idolatry and tyranny will imminently yield to universal acceptance of God's dominion by all the nations of the earth, distinguishes it from the majority of rabbinic prayers, which confined their scope to the Jewish nation.
		The placement of the 'Aleinu at the conclusion of all three daily prayer services was instituted because the medievals saw in it an expression of the highest ideals of Judaism.
		This accusation was directed primarily at the passage in the 'Aleinu that speaks of heathens who "bow down to vanity and emptiness, and pray to a god who cannot save." The Hebrew word for "and emptiness"--varik--has the same numerological value--gimatria--as "Yeshu," which was believed to be the Hebrew name of Jesus.
	www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/000928_Aleinu.html (1092 words)

	DRAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aleinu was commissioned by Congregation Emanu El, Houston, in 1985, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Rabbi Robert I. Kahn.
		Composed for baritone, solo violin, SATB choir, and organ, it was premièred in the spring of that year with the composer conducting and Fredell Lack as the violin soloist.
		Aleinu was written ten years prior to the Daughters of Jerusalem.
	dlib.nyu.edu /dram/note.cgi?id=7821 (2428 words)

	Central Synagogue :: New York City
		The Aleinu states that we "bow down low" before God to acknowledge all that God has done: we literally "bend the knee." At the word kor'im we bend at the knees; at the word umishtachavim we bow from the waist; at umodim we remain bent, and at lif'nei mehlech we stand erect.
		The Aleinu today continues to have a special role in the musaf section of the Rosh Hashanah service, when the reader prostrates himself before the ark, an age-old tradition.
		The Aleinu was added to the basic service as a concluding prayer in the 13th to 14th centuries.
	www.centralsynagogue.org /worship/ritual/display.php?id=1268 (698 words)

	NJOP Aleinu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aleinu is the final prayer of every prayer service.
		Aleinu was originally only said in the Rosh Hashanah prayer service, but sometime during the thirteenth century, it became the closing prayer for each service.
		Although Aleinu is the concluding prayer of the service, it is followed by a psalm for the day (Shir Shel Yom) and a final hymn (Adon Olam).
	www.njop.org /Shabbat/Aleinu.htm (175 words)

	Aleinu - Joshua's Prayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Three times daily, at the conclusion of each service, we say Aleinu.
		Saying Aleinu and all prayers with kavanah is precious to the Almighty.
		Awareness of the historical development of Aleinu and discussing it's meaning will help deepen our kavanah each time we pray.
	www.aleinu.org (72 words)

	Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning
		The prayer Aleinu is usually recited at the end of services.
		Aleinu denotes the Jewish people’s struggle over being the “Chosen People” and the trials that arise with that responsibility.
		During the verse, “va-anachnu korim” (which translates into we bend the knee), Many people in Ashkenazi congregations bow toward the ark. This is symbolic of bowing to God and being humbled in his presence.
	www.pjll.org /article.php?id=73 (712 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		In addition, Aleinu runs Nishma, a hotline that was initially conceived as a spousal abuse line, but, like Aleinu, has broadened its mandate after receiving a wider range of calls.
		When abuse is suspected, either at home or in school, Aleinu guides the family through the legal system and makes sure all their needs are met — from finding a Jewish foster home, if necessary, to making sure a carpool is arranged to going into the school to talk with teachers, principals and other students.
		The embrace of an Aleinu social worker and the adoption of the abuse guidelines at Toras Emes — where much progress has been made in the last few years away from an old-school style of education — are indicative of the community’s newfound willingness to combine modern psychological sensibilities with a strictly observant mindset.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=10717 (1129 words)

	June 17, 2004
		In Ma'aseh Merkavah, one of the forms of mysticism that existed during the rabbinic era (70-500 C.E.), the Aleinu (in singular form, i.e., "Alai") is the prayer the mystical journeyer utters upon reaching the seventh, final heavenly hall.
		It is incumbent upon me to praise the Lord of all; to ascribe greatness to the Former of Creation, who did not make us like the nations of the lands and did not place us like the families of the earth.
		Some Sephardic congregations do not go on to recite the second part of the Aleinu as we find it in our prayer books today which expresses the hope that the messianic age will arrive quickly and that God's name shall be one.
	www.maqom.com /jun17_2004.html (427 words)

	Ask the Rabbi, JewishAnswers.org » Censored line in Aleinu Prayer
		Also, the aleinu prayer was originally written by Joshua, the man who took over the reign of the Jewish people after Moses.
		The charge was refuted time and time again, particularly by Menasseh ben Israel, the 17th century scholar, but repeated persecutions and church insistence, backed by governmental enforcement, caused the line to be dropped from most ashkenazik prayer books.
		While most congregations have not returned it to the aleinu prayer, some prominent authorities, among them Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, insist that the aleinu be recited in its original form.
	www.jewishanswers.org /ask-the-rabbi-1230/censored-line-in-aleinu-prayer (315 words)

	Spitting - Voices
		Then my mother passed away and I was faced with the daunting prospect of leading the davening, everyday, three times a day, in Kfar Chabad, in front of guys whove been davening for 60 or more years (I prayed at the 6 am minyan where the average age of the participants is 72 years).
		Aleinu was composed by (in the days of) Yehoshua Bin Nun.
		I find the 'He has not...' part of the Aleinu prayer a very definite insult to all non-Jews.
	www.chabad.org /library/article.asp?AID=2898 (2099 words)

	Aleinu
		Its first paragraph (aleinu) proclaims the difference between Yisrael's concept of G-d and that of the other nations.
		Since the 14th century, incessant attacks were concentrated upon Aleinu on account of the words "For they bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a g-d which helps not." So, this passage was deleted from the Ashkenazic Siddurim (Prayer books).
		While most congregations have not returned this passage to the Aleinu prayer, some prominent authorities, among them Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, insist that Aleinu be recited in its original form (World of Prayer; Siach Yitzchak) (Artscroll Siddur, Nusach Ashkenaz, p.
	www.headcoverings-by-devorah.com /Aleynu.html (735 words)

	Liturgica.com \| Spiritual Growth \| Jewish Prayers
		Someone once told me it separates each portion of the service, and a quick glance at any siddur (daily prayerbook) shows that it is recited between each section, but I don't know if that is its purpose.
		Another important prayer is Aleinu, which is recited at or near the end of every service.
		Aleinu, Ashrei (Psalm 145), and other closing prayers, Psalms and hymns (not on Sabbaths and holidays; recited at the end of Musaf instead on those days)
	www.liturgica.com /html/growJ.jsp?hostname=liturgica (1252 words)

	The Weekday Services
		Between Passover and Shavuot, the Omer is counted prior to the recitation of Aleinu.
		Among Sephardim it is common to precede Arvit with a series of verses from the Book of Psalms, and the recitation of the Half Kaddish.
		At the conclusion of Sabbaths and holidays, an addition is made to the fourth benediction of the Amidah to acknowledge the transition from sanctified time to the profane time of the weekdays.
	www1.uni-hamburg.de /rz3a035/weekday.html (1013 words)

	On That Day...
		The rousing tune to which it is chanted and its proximity to the end of the morning service have ensured both its familiarity and its obscurity; we all recognize it, but we never focus on the words.
		Both in the Aleinu and in the book of Zechariah (from where it is taken), the verse is the culmination of a prophecy that all nations will acknowledge God as ruler.
		In the days of Zechariah, paganism and idolatry were prevalent, and his expectation was that the amoral and whimsical world that they reflected would one day be abandoned, and would be replaced universally by a view of a world created and sustained through morality and purpose.
	dimacs.rutgers.edu /~joer/on_that_day.html (1705 words)

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		Aleinu, Ashrei (Psalm 145), and other closing prayers, Psalms and hymns (not on Shabbat and holidays; recited at the end of Musaf instead on those days)
		Aleinu and other closing prayers, Psalms and hymns
		Each week in synagogue, we read (or, more accurately, chant, because it is sung) a passage from the Torah.
	www.askarabbi.com /questionresults.cfm?id=8347 (515 words)

	Variations on the Aleinu \| The Shalom Center
		Judy Chicago wrote a poem which carries the lyrical vision of para 2 of Aleinu, which we sometimes chant in English as an analogue.
		We sometimes pause after para 1 of Aleinu and ask the kahal to create paragraph 2 by imagining what they see the world "in that day" to be like.
		People around the circle (we davven in a circle, including Aleinu and Bar'chu) describe one vivid piece of a world where wickedness has vanished like smoke, etc.
	www.shalomctr.org /node/228 (318 words)

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