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0761867368 epub Keeping God at the Center is informative as well as instructional. It contains four kinds of teaching: first, insights derived from pondering the meaning of selected phrases and prayers from the traditional liturgy second: four chapters on the personalist theology behind traditional Jewish prayer third, meditations on the liturgy and clear instructions on how to pray certain prayers and, fourth, instructions on how to pray certain prayers mystically. Both those well-acquainted with the prayerbook and those completely unfamiliar with it will be able to derive benefit from this book. It is a continuation of the main themes of Blumenthals earlier work in Jewish spirituality, theology, and mysticism.