The Birkhat ha-Mazon as an Early Modern Supplementary Prayerbook
The Birkhat ha-Mazon as an Early Modern Supplementary Prayerbook Morris M. Faierstein Ph.D. morrisfaierstein.academia.edu The opportunity to meet the liturgical needs of the Jewish community in the age of printing presented both possibilities and problems for the publishers and printers who wished to publish prayerbooks. Unlike biblical and rabbinic texts that were the same for all Jewish communities, prayerbooks were very diverse with different communities having their own rites and sub-rites. Another problem was what to include and what not…
