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Tzvee Zahavy reintroduces the traditional prayer service to anyone who has ever been in a synagogue, from the most devout to the most irreverent, and even to those who are not Jewish. He seeks to breathe life and a variety of contemporary flavors into a set of prayers that often seem to be boring, ritualistic, and irrelevant. Zahavy does so by presenting the people in the synagogue not as a minyan (although he does that, too), but rather as six personalities or archetypes whom he identifies as (1) the performer, (2) the mystic, (3) the scribe, (4) the priest, (5) the meditator, and (6) the celebrity. In each case, Zahavy describes the personality in an abstract way and then identifies a person who personifies the personality, in some cases the people whom he admires most and who directly influenced his life. Zahavy’s volume covers the structure of synagogue worship, examines the prayer service as a theatrical event, complete with a theatrical dramatis personae and as a concert consisting of many instruments, and elaborates his points with discussions of some of the religious highpoints of his life, including biographical highlights of some of the people who molded his character
Review of Rabbinic Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2012
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