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  2. Tele-webinars & Recordings

1. Articles and Publications

  1. An Interpretation of the Ashre Prayer by Reuven Kimelman, MyJewishLearning.com (reprinted with permission from the CLAL Rabbinic Community Online)
  2. A Translation of Ashre by Reuven Kimelman, MyJewishLearning.com (reprinted with permission from the CLAL Rabbinic Community Online)
  3. National Redemption: The blessings that conclude the Amidah's center section emphasize God's redemption of Israel by Reuven Kimelman, MyJewishLearning.com (reprinted with permission from the CLAL Rabbinic Community Online)
  4. The Tefilla Colloquium: Ashre by Reuven Kimelman, CLAL Rabbinic Community On Line
    1. Part 1
    2. Part 2
  5. The Tefilla Colloquium: Amidah by Reuven Kimelman, CLAL Rabbinic Community On Line
    1. Part 1: Its literary structure and its rhetoric of redemption: The Intermediate Blessings (4-9)
    2. Part 2: Blessings 10-16
    3. Part 3: Blessings 1-3
    4. Part 4: Blessings 17-19
  6. The Tefilla Colloquium: The Shema Liturgy by Reuven Kimelman, CLAL Rabbinic Community On Line
    1. Part 1: The structure, sequence and content
    2. Part 2: The first blessing
    3. Part 3: The second blessing
    4. Part 4: The third blessing
    5. Part 5: The first and third blessings
    6. Part 6: The Shema verse
    7. Part 7: The Shema and the decalogue
    8. Part 8: Pores et Shema
    9. Part 9: The rabbinic insertion
    10. Part 10: The ve-ahavta
    11. Part 11: The rhetorical structure of the Shema liturgy

2. Tele-webinars and Recordings

  1. The Brakha: From Individual to Community to Humanity
  2. The What, How and Why of The First Paragraph of the Shema