TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC

THE SHEMONEH ESREI COMPANION: JEWS WHO PRAY 3 TIMES A DAY FROM AGE 10 TO 80 WILL HAVE RECITED THE SHEMONEH ESREI/AMIDAH PRAYER OVER 90,000 TIMES. IDEALLY, EACH RECITATION IS TO BE UNIQUE. EACH RECITATION SHOULD SERVE TO DRAW THE SUPPLICANT TO THE LORD. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, MOST PEOPLE RECITE THIS IMPORTANT PRAYER BY ROTE. TO RECTIFY THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS, THE COMPANION SERVES TO MAKE THIS PRAYER MORE MEANINGFUL TO THE MASSES BY ANALYZING SHEMONEH ESREH ON MANY LEVELS, INCLUDING: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS STRUCTURE, THE IMPORT OF KEY TERMS AND THEIR RECURRENCE THROUGHOUT THE THREE MAIN SECTIONS OF THE AMIDAH, MEANINGFUL INSIGHTS THAT ARE OPEN TO ALL, THE HEAVENLY PERSPECTIVES OF THE SAINTLY, AND OF MOST IMPORTANCE, AS A TOOL TO MOTIVATE INDIVIDUALS TO EMULATE THE ALMIGHTY'S BENEVOLENCE, THEREBY ACCOMPLISHING TIKKUN O'LAM (THE RECTIFICATION OF HUMANITY).

THE NATURE OF TIME: THIS TWO-VOLUME WORK WILL BE VOLUMES 11&12 IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TALMUDIC DISPUTES AND PERSPECTIVESTHE GOAL OF TREATISE IS MANIFOLD: 1. TO REVIEW THE JUDAIC SOURCES THAT DEAL WITH THE NATURE OF " TIME" BEGINNING WITH TANACH AND TALMUD THROUGH CONTEMPORARY HALAKHIC WORKS TO DELINEATE THE DIFFERENT VIEWS OF TIME THAT ARE BEING ESPOUSED. 2. TO EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES OF VARIOUS MODELS OF TIME. 3. TO IDENTIFY THE HALAKHIC DISPUTES THAT IMPLICITLY ARE BASED ON DIFFERENT TIME MODELS. 4. TO CALIBRATE THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF TIME WITH THE WELTANSCHAUUNG OF YAHADUT. 5. TO STUDY THE ZOHAR'S CONTRIBUTION OF, "WHAT IS TIME?" 6. TO REVIEW THE TALMUDIC DOCTRINE OF RETROCAUSALITY (LE'MAFREI'A) IN LIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS. 7. TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF BEIN HA'SHEMASHOT (TWILIGHT). 8. TO BREATHE LIFE AND UNDERSTANDING INTO THE HOLY DAYS OF THE YEAR. 9. TO MAKE EACH MOMENT OF OUR LIVES PRECIOUS AND MEANINGFUL.