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	Amidah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amidah ("Standing"), also called the Shemoneh Esreh ("The Eighteen"), is the central prayer in the Jewish liturgy that observant Jews recite each morning, afternoon, and evening.
		Consistent with this relationship, the Amidah is publicly recited whenever a regular community sacrifice would have been offered in the days of the Temple, and it is recited during the time period that the sacrifice itself would have been offered.
		According to the Talmud, the 12th prayer in the modern sequence, the prayer against informers and heretics, was the 19th addition to the original 18, and was said to have been added by the council in Jabneh by Samuel ha-Katan, at the request of Rabban Gamaliel II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amidah (3393 words)

	Amidah
		The nineteen prayers of the weekday Amidah are:
		In Jewish practice, the Amidah is recited in morning, afternoon and evening prayers, as well as in the additional (Musaf) service which is held on every Shabbat and on the three pilgrimmage festivals.
		As the prayer par excellence, it is designated as the "Tefillah" (prayer), while among the Sephardic Jews it is known as the "'Amidah," i.e., the prayer which the worshiper is commanded to recite standing.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/Amidah.html (2770 words)

	The Amidah
		The exact form and order of the blessings were codified after the destruction of the Second Temple in the first century C.E. The Amidah was expanded from eighteen to nineteen blessings in the 2nd century C.E., under the leadership of Rabbi Gamliel the Elder in Yavneh.
		The additional blessing (against heretics) was initially meant to combat the threats posed by the Samaritan and Sadducee sects, and was permanently added to the liturgy when Jewish converts to Christianity began to inform on Jews to the Roman authorities.
		The reason the Amidah is not repeated at maariv is because the Talmud treats maariv as originally having been optional, meaning that it does not have the same level of obligation.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/amidah.html (2766 words)

	Jewish services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is followed by the core of the prayer service, the Amidah or Shemoneh Esreh, a series of 19 blessings.
		This is then followed by the hazzan's mini-repetition of the Amidah, Magen Avot, a digest of the seven benedictions.
		A blessing on the pulpit ("Dukhen") is pronounced by the "kohanim" (Jewish priests) during the Amidah (this occurs daily in Israel, but only on Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur in the diaspora).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Davening (3590 words)

	D'var Tefilot (Words about Prayers): Amidah
		The Amidah is recited in a standing position with intense concentration (the word Amidah means standing).
		Perhaps the most eloquent example of the combination of private and community prayer is found in the section of worship known as the Amidah.
		We recite different versions of the Amidah, depending on when we are reciting it.
	home.att.net /~saulcarliner/amidah.htm (295 words)

	Ritual/Liturgy Shabbat Amidah
		The Amidah is the "standing prayer," which on Erev Shabbat (Friday evening) traditionally is recited silently or in a whisper while standing.
		It is a time of quiet reflection as well as a time to think about the themes of the seven paragraphs of the Amidah.
		During the week, the Amidah consists of eighteen paragraphs (indeed, it is sometimes known as the "Shemoneh Esreh" -- the 18 Benedictions).
	www.jew-feminist-resources.com /r.shabbat_amidah_berner.html (970 words)

	Women in Synagogue - Nishmat
		Nonetheless, a woman who has started her Amidah and is still praying when the chazan reaches the Kedusha, should stop her prayers, and listen - without answering - to the chazan.
		She should also bow at Modim and Barechu, with the community, (unless she is at the very start or end of a blessing of the Amidah that we do not bow for), without though, saying the reponse itself.If the priestly blessing is recited, she should also wait and listen to it before completing her Amidah.
		With this in mind, a woman who comes late to synagogue, may want to pray the shacharit amidah while the community is saying the Musaf silent amidah, and then say the musaf amidah together with the chazan, and in such a way merit to have two prayers with the community.
	www.nishmat.net /article.php?id=1&heading=0 (2811 words)

	- Torah.org
		If he started to say an Amidah thinking that he had not said it already and he then remembered that he had in fact already said it, he should stop [immediately], even in the middle of a Blessing and (7) even if he is able to add something new to his Amidah.
		In any case, by [repeating the Amidah and thereby] removing himself from doubt is considered as a new thing even for Ma'ariv, and so may be inferred, in my humble opinion, from the language of the Rambam in Chapter 10 of Hilchos Tefillah, see there.
		MB 4: And say the Amidah voluntarily - Meaning only as a voluntary prayer, but [to say the Amidah again] as an obligatory prayer, even with something new added, is forbidden.
	www.torah.org /advanced/mishna-berura/S107.html (619 words)

	Erev Rosh Hashannah: Preparing for the Hike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Amidah is a set of seven blessings that form the second major feature of the morning service.
		The blessings of the Amidah thank God for our ancestors, acknowledge God as the source of life, acknowledge God's holiness, thank God for this holiday, ask God to accept our prayer, thank God for our lives, and ask God for peace.
		The musaf amidah is like crossing back across the same general territory of the morning amidah, but from a different angle.
	www.rjca.org /5759erhhike.html (1983 words)

	The Shemoneh Esrei - the Consummate Hebrew Prayer
		The prayer is also sometimes called Amidah (“standing”) because it is recited while standing and facing the Aron Kodesh (the ark that houses the Torah scrolls).
		The basic form of the prayer was composed by the 120 Men of the Great Assembly in the fifth century B.C.E. Some scholars surmise that the LORD’s Prayer of Jesus is a concise restatement of the Amidah.
		Whenever there is a minyan (group of ten) present, the Amidah will be repeated aloud (by the cantor) in the synagogue, and the congregant responds “Amen” after each blessing has been recited.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Prayers/Daily_Prayers/Shemoneh_Esrei/shemoneh_esrei.html (434 words)

	Prayer - General
		Therefore, when you are praying the amidah, you should not move to allow others to pass by you to their seats.
		At the words Modim anahnu lakh near the end of the Amidah it is customary to bow at the waist, and at the end of that berakha it is customary to bow at the Barukh ata Adonai in the same way as at the beginning of the Amidah.
		At then end of the Amidah, it is customary to take three steps backwards, leaving the presence of God, bow left, right, and straight ahead, and then take three steps forwards, returning to "normal space." Again, this is based on a Roman custom on the proper way to take leave of the Emperor.
	www.ahavasisraelgr.org /Prayer.htm (7252 words)

	D’var Tefila: The Amidah
		The Amidah is the oldest and considered by many to be the most important prayer in the Jewish liturgy.
		It is the opportunity for a person to pray alone and together with others at the same time, to be an individual in the midst of a community, to pray at once in privacy and in public.
		I have been saying the Amidah in Hebrew since I was a child at a Jewish Day School in Detroit and like many prayers, it became rote.
	www.kolshalom.com /divrei/dvarilana1.html (1324 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Texts: The Amidah
		The Amidah is the focus of every Jewish prayer service: Shacharit (the morning service), Minchah (the afternoon service), Ma’ariv (the evening service), Musaf (the additional service on Shabbat and holidays), and Ne’ilah (the concluding service on Yom Kippur).
		The Amidah is the core of every Jewish worship service, and is therefore also referred to as HaTefillah, or “The prayer.” Amidah, which literally means, "standing," refers to a series of blessings recited while standing.
		The Amidah is recited silently by all members of a congregation--or by individuals praying along--and then, in communal settings, repeated aloud by the prayer leader or cantor, with the congregation reciting "Amen" to all the blessings of the Amidah.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /texts/liturgical_texts/Overview_Jewish_Prayer_Book/Amidah_3250.htm (852 words)

	The Jewish Center - Conservative Synagogue of Princeton, New Jersey
		The Amidah is also called the Shmoneh Esrey, which means ”eighteen blessings.” However, over the years an additional blessing was added, so there are really nineteen blessings.
		The Amidah is the same as the one that is recited in the morning.
		The Amidah is the same as the one that is recited at Shacharit and at Mincha.
	www.thejewishcenter.org /ReligiousAffairs.html (5168 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES Holding the Line: Liturgy, Tradition and Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What does not change is the arrangement of the themes of the Amidah into a berakhah series, each marked by the use of the closing berakhah formula.
		So in a poetic version of a Shabbat Amidah, there are still seven berakhot; it's just that the standard language has been replaced by a poem.
		The Tosefta, a legal compendium organized like the Mishnah and roughly contemporaneous with it (early third century), describes how different communities had different numbers of berakhot in their weekday Amidah: the preferred option was eighteen, but some communities were known to have nineteen, twenty and even twenty-one.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/monograph/masoret_holding.shtml (944 words)

	The Weekday Services
		The Shema and its benedictions are recited as usual, and the Amidah is shortened to seven benedictions, the middle one dealing with the santuary of the Sabbath or holiday.
		On the Sabbath, after Amidah, a passage from Genesis (2:1-3) is recited followed by a short prayer modeled on the Sabbatheve Amidah.
		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.
	www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de /rz3a035/weekday.html (1013 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first Amidah pertains to the evening service, while the second one is a makeup for the missed afternoon service.
		Since the makeup Amidah is being said during the time for the evening service, the Amidah need not be repeated.
		If one does not say Atah Chonantanu in the first Amidah and says it in the second, it means that he said the first one as a makeup for Minchah and the second as the evening Amidah.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=1043 (2314 words)

	Conservative Responsa in Israel - Masorti Responsa - Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies - SIJS
		According to the Mishnah (Berakhot 3:3), women are required to recite the tefilah, and tefilah in the Mishnah does not mean "prayer" but rather the amidah or the eighteen benedictions.
		In such a case, it is preferable to rely on the early sources and, according to the plain meaning of the Mishnah and the Rambam, women are required to recite musaf and neilah just as they are required to recite shaharit, minhah and ma'ariv.
		Barekhu, kaddish and the loud repetition of the amidah are usually called devarim shebikedushah and many authorities forbid women from being counted in the minyan for these prayers.
	www.responsafortoday.com /engsums/6_5.htm (675 words)

	Dvar Torah on the Kedusha
		The Kedusha has several unique features: it is the one part of the publicly recited Amidah for which we are all supposed to stand and reverently face the ark--it is improper to enter or leave the sanctuary during the Kedusha, or to engage in conversation.
		The Kedusha is the only part of the Amidah (apart from the priestly blessing) that we recite only during the public repetition of the Amidah, omitting it when we pray the Amidah silently.
		When we pray the Amidah silently, we still address the issue of God's holiness, but we substitute a single sentence in place of the full Kedusha, before concluding with the Kedusha blessing: "You are holy, and Your Name is holy, and they are holy who praise You daily.
	www.tifereth-israel.org /DvarTfila/kedusha1.html (985 words)

	Halachah in Brief #36
		Others, however, note that Eloqai netsor began as private additions at the end of davening and therefore permit responding to these parts of the prayers—; qedushah, etc. That opinion is certainly helped by those who recite the words "yihyu le-ratson, etc." after the berakhah of hamevarekh et amo yisrael ba-shalom.
		Saying we can stop in the middle of the Amidah to listen to qedushah might be misleading, since in that situation we only stop and listen to two parts of the qedushah,the verses of qadosh, qadosh, qadosh, and the next verse barukh kevod Hashem mi-meqomo.
		In other portions of prayers—; even in the middle of pesuqei de-zimra, the psalms and verses we recite between barukh she-amar and yishtabah— we are permitted to respond to all berakhot that we hear.
	www.rjconline.org /hib36.htm (876 words)

	Hebrew Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Amidah is the core of every prayer service, which is done three times per day by Orthodox Jews.
		The Amidah is always done standing (from the root word "AMAD") and is done silently.
		The Sabbath version of the Amidah is slightly different than the weekday version.
	www.hebrewresources.com /discus/messages/2/360.html (166 words)

	Velveteen Rabbi: Amidah tensions
		What a shocker, eh?) On the one hand, the amidah is regarded as the replacement for Temple sacrifice, intended to strengthen our communal connection with our source; on the proverbial other hand, it's also regarded as the time to stand before God and speak the personal words of our hearts.
		When I'm using the amidah as a door into meditation, or into praying in my own words on the set themes the amidah offers (which some scholars argue is the original way the amidah was used), I can sidestep these thorny sentiments.
		Which would make the amidah, as the Talmud suggests, both communal and personal: something we say together, words we all know, but capable of changing in the hearts and minds of we who davven it.
	velveteenrabbi.blogs.com /blog/2004/11/amidah_tensions.html (1594 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES 1800 Years of Liturgy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We know this by examining the earliest written references to Jewish liturgy, which can be found in the Mishnah (edited by the year 200), along with those found in the Talmud (edited by around the year 550).
		Through the centuries, the Amidah has consisted of nineteen berakhot (with minor local variations); the Shema has been preceded by two and followed by one; and Birkat Hamazon has been made up of four.
		This unchanging nature of our liturgy is due largely to the fact that the Mishnah and Talmud present the Shema unit, the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon as mandatory daily recitations.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/monograph/masoret_1800.shtml (1149 words)

	Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation: Miss Shul Manners
		In beginning the Amidah, traditionally, one bends the knee at Baruch, bows at Atah (one siddur notes not lower than the waist, in order not to seem overly pious!) and straightens at Adonai.
		The second paragraph of the Amidah, the G'vurot, or Divine Power, is a part where, traditionally, one does not bow.
		The Amidah begins with Avot and Imahot, and continues through the Gevurot, the Kedushah and the silent part, which ends with the singing of "Oseh Shalom".
	www.adatshalom.net /shulmanners.html (1310 words)

	NJOP Shabbat Amidah Intro Copy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This repetition was instituted for those who cannot yet pray on their own, for the Sages understood the spiritual hunger of those still learning to pray.
		By listening intently and repeating Amen at the end of each blessing, these worshippers are considered to have fulfilled their obligation to recite the Amidah.
		When we recite the Amidah, we are standing in the presence of G-d.
	www.njop.org /Shabbat/Amdhintr.htm (275 words)

	What is Shacharit? \| AskMoses.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Amidah (pronounced ah-MEE-dah) is the central, critical section of Shacharit, around which the other sections were built.
		The Amidah, which means “standing” in Hebrew, is a series of 12 requests of G-d recited silently while standing at attention, as if before a king, introduced by three praises of G-d and capped by three thank-yous.
		Because of the eighteen sections, the amidah is also known as the Shmoneh Esrei, meaning “eighteen” in Hebrew (although it’s really nineteen, because of one extra request added later).
	www.askmoses.com /qa_detail.html?h=287&o=134 (818 words)

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