Comments on: How Do Jews Pray?

By: Ahmad Firdaus

Ahmad Firdaus — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:27:38 +0000

Masha’Allah! This is a very insightful post. How inspiring to note the parallels between the religion of Judaism and Islam and how encouraging to read the positive spirit with which everyone speaks on this blog.

Truly, God is great. I hope and pray that we will all continue to enjoy our similarities and share our faith.

By: mikha'el

mikha'el — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:55:05 +0000

I do prostration for naphillath ‘appayyim at almost every prayer. It is halakhicly required to do so. Thos who don’t are trangressing.

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Dervish » Blog Archive » Life with the Benedictines — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:58:18 +0000

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By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:48:25 +0000

I wanted to thank you for this site. As a Christian joining my Muslim Brothers and Sisters in fasting for Ramadan for my second year, I try to study my bible as well as all three monotheistic religions. It is wonderful spirit here that we can share and learn from each other as our wonderful heavenly father molds and teaches each of us as we search for truth. As a Christian it has been my practice to pray when ever, how ever, but this site plus my reading has encouraged me to try some prayers in prostrate. I thank you and hope to enjoy future reading as well.

By: Vlad (Yosef Shalom)

Vlad (Yosef Shalom) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:31:13 +0000

Shalom aleichem, as-salaamu aleikum friends,
I hope it is OK to add my thoughts and another note on the topic as well. One other very nice parallelism between Jewish and Muslim prayer is a part of the ending prayer which goes at the end of the Amidah, or standing prayer. This small prayer is called the “Oseh Shalom” (Make, or send, peace; the same root words as my hebrew name, Yosef Shalom), where we ask G-d to make peace for all of us, our whole religious community, and the whole world. As we say the words of the prayer, we look to our right and to our left, then bow forward. This strikes me as very similar to the closing of salat, where the as-salaamu aleikum is given to the right and to the left. Additionally, the Amidah, being standing prayer, reminds me that salat also has a considerable standing component.
I really enjoy praying with my local Muslim community, since I have in the last few years (re)discovered for myself the Jewish custom of tahanun (prostration) during prayer. It’s interesting to note that the Yemenite Jews seem to conserve this custom, calling it hishTahawayya (see http://www.chayas.com/qidah.htm for description and photos), and in accordance to 4-5 biblical passages dealing with kneeling and lifting the hands in prayer, also seem to parallel the Muslim position of holding the hands before the face.
Sorry for such a long post–but the topic fascinates me. Rachel B, great to see your post up top–funny to notice again another circle in which we have crossed! l’shalom, ma’as-salaam to all—–Vlad

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By: Hakim

Hakim — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:21:42 +0000

wa ‘alaikum as-salaam to suki and 2Jay. OceanGuy and Therapydoc I appreciate your comments thank you very much.

By: Hakim

Hakim — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:16:53 +0000

wa ‘alaikum as-salaam

“Nice to see you back!”

Thanks sis… by the way you still have all of the same privileges to the site… feel free… ok.

By: therapydoc

therapydoc — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:18:16 +0000

I appreciate this post. I’ve heard Muslims referred to as “cousins” to the Jews. It drives me crazy, as a family therapist, that there’s so much enmity between us.