רְפָאֵנוּ ה' וְנֵרָפֵא "Cure us, Oh God, so we will be cured..."   In this berakha we acknowledge that God is the ultimate healer.  When we are...

ראה נא בענינו וריבה ריבנו Please see our suffering and fight our fights, and to grant us a complete salvation, for the sake of...

סלח לנו אבינו כי חטאנו , מחול לנו מלכנו כי פשענו "Forgive us, our Father, because we have inadvertently sinned; pardon us, our King, because...

Rabbi Binyamin ben Emanuel Musafia was born in Spain in 1606. He belonged to a family of "conversos", Jews that were forced to convert...

כי לא תחפוץ במות המת, כי אם בשובו מדרכו וחיה In this berakha we ask God to assist us in the process of our teshuba (=repentance). Literally,...

Ata honen la-adam da'at...,  You grant humans wisdom... This berakha inaugurates the second section of the 'amida, "Request" (baqasha), the blessings in which we ask God...

The third blessing of the 'amida is also the shortest one. In this berakha we state that HaShem is "qadosh"; and that so is...

The second berakha (=blessing) of the 'amida is called geburot, "God's powers". This blessing asserts, in the first place, that God is Omnipotent (Atta gibbor...

Rabbi David ben Yehuda Messer-Leon (דוד מיסיר-ליאון) was born in Venice, Italy, 1470.  He was educated at Naples in the school of his father...

The 'amida consists of nineteen blessings, or short prayers which end with a blessing. The first blessing of the Amida is called "Abot", which...