ArtScroll makes it into academia
“For a comprehensive expression of the equivalency between the rites of the Temple and those of the synagogue, see the penitential prayer of the eleventh-century German, Rabbi Meir Bar Isaac (Sheliaḥ Tsibbur), Tefillah tiqaḥ (The Complete ArtScroll Selichos), ed. A. Gold, Sefarad [Minhag Polin]) (Brooklyn, 1993)”
Reuven Kimelman, “Rabbinic Prayer in Late Antiquity” in The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4-The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period, 579 n. 33.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
i wish i knew what “equivalency between the rites of the Temple and those of the synagogue” meant. any idea? there are traditions that say the prayers are replacements for sacrifice in the temple. but “equivalency”? yikes.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Here are two other quotes:
“In Tannaitic times, the synagogue already assumed many of the activities associated with the Temple, such as the priestly benediction (by barefoot priests), blowing of the ram’s horn on a New Year which coincides with the Sabbath, shaking the palm branch and citron during all of Sukkot along with the reciting of the Hoshannas, reciting the Levitical hallel psalms and the psalm for the day, saying the priestly benediction, blowing the shofar to announce the onset of the Sabbath, and the consoling of mourners in public.”
p. 574
“The problem was how to appropriate Temple terminology to create a religious continuum without creating a religious equivalency.”
p. 575
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Wow — I imagine he figured that the ArtScroll was simply the most accessible place for most people in America to find the relevant piyyut.