Tuesday, January 27, 2009

"Jews face Jerusalem when we pray"


As part of his description of how Jews face Jerusalem when we pray, Rabbi Steinsaltz writes:

“Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Lyady writes in his halakhic work, known as Shulhan Arukh ha-Rav, that in order to establish the exact direction it is necessary to use spheric trigonometry.”

--Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz


From A Guide to Jewish Prayer, p. 291, by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz