Tefillah

Most day schools are committed to cultivating Jewish prayer, tefillah, as a spiritual practice. In practice, they often find the obstacles formidable: lack of curriculum, knowledgeable and passionate prayer leaders, student interest, awareness of goals, to name a few. Articles here aim to help schools clarify their approach and strengthen the educational bases of school tefillah.

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Articles From This Issue

Reimagining Prayer

Susan Wall and Judy Markose
A Week of Tefillah Moments

Harry Pell
Tefillah as a Journey, on a Journey

Yoseph Chaiton
Cain’s Prayer and Abel’s Prayer: Struggling with the Challenge of School Tefillah

Elyasaf Tel-Or Sternberg
Storytelling: Inspiration for Kavannah

Israel (Billy) Lewkowicz
From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Prayer in a Newly Merged School

Cheryl Maayan
The RAVSAK Chair

Barbara Davis
Creating Community through Tefillah, Tefillah through Community

Aytan Kadden
Good & Welfare

HaYidion Editor
Iyyun Tefillah Through the Eyes of Inquiry

Suzanne Messinger and Beth Fine
Dear Cooki

Cooki Levi
Tefillah as a Leadership Opportunity

Yonatan Rosner
Teaching for Prayer

Moshe J. Yeres
Supporting Minyan Leaders

Reuven Margrett
A Vision of Tefillah Education

James Jacobson-Maisels
Answering Parents’ Prayers

Judd Kruger Levingston
Core Rabbinic Sources on Kavannah

James Jacobson-Maisels
The Real Estate of Tefillah

Yaakov Green
The Problem of Prayer in Orthodox Yeshivot

Chana Tanenbaum
Absence and Presence

By Peg Sandel, <a href="http://www.jchsofthebay.org/">Jewish Community Day School of the Bay</a>
What We Can Learn from Prayer in Christian Schools

Sarah Levy
Student Prayers for Sandy Hook

<a href="http://www.bhds.org/">Brandeis Hillel Day School, San Francisco</a>
Prayer in Dialogue with Tanakh: A Novel Approach to Tefillah Education

Elie Kaunfer
Why Pray?

Sharon Freundel, <a href="http://www.jpds.org/">Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital</a>
Tefillah: Poetry of the Sublime

Elliott Rabin
Meaningful Prayer: Focus on the Goal

Mark Stolovitsky