This “behind the scenes” look at prayers examines prayers under the following headings:

1. Context - how does this prayer fit into the siddur (in terms of what precedes it and what follows)? What is its purpose?

2. P’shat - What does it actually say?  Some of the text might surprise you.

3. Choreography - How do we approach it at DN (silent, responsive, singing, listening . . etc) and how well does that work?

4. Some sort of conclusion if that is possible. It could be the Reconstructionist angle, it could be some thoughts about changing our choreography, or...

Presented by Robert Schwartz