The rope is used to help or as a focus in the saying of the 'Jesus Prayer': 'Lord Jesus Christ, take pity on me a sinner'. An aspect of Orthodox worship now finding a place in several Western ...

Personal prayer plays an important part in the life of an Orthodox Christian. For many Orthodox Christians an important form of prayer is the Jesus Prayer. This is a sentence which is repeated ...

The Brooklyn-based publisher of Jewish books put out the most widely used Orthodox prayer book, or siddur, as well as a popular text and translation of the Torah, or chumash. But that dominance ...