"Praying" Psalms

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The Jewish Bible is comprised of Torah, Prophets, Writings.

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Torah is what we call The Five Books of Moses. It is sacrosanct above all else.

Prophets are what we call the following 8 books in the Bible. At this very second, all over the world, people of all tongues are reading, writing, speaking, and praying the words of The Prophets.

Writings are what we call the final 11 eclectic books of the Bible. They include matter as unfamiliar as (the all too familiar) pseudo-piety of Elifaz the Yemenite whose soul is too holy to hear his one-time friend Job’s cries for understanding. But they also include Writings like The Story of Queen Esther which every Jewish child knows and loves before the age of 7.

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Unique among these Writings is The Book of Psalms, Tehillim, inasmuch as it is appended to tens of millions of Prayer Books and printed Torahs. Odder yet, despite the immense place it has in the daily life of millions of Jews today it is only very very rarely actually studied, perused or mentally apprehended. It is prayed.

In fact…