In this course, Dr. Gesundheit will present selected texts from the daily Siddur and Festival Machzor and compare them through a detailed study of the Hebrew sources from the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi. The similarities and differences between these texts are of philosophical relevance and have potential messages for contemporary Jewish identity in the diaspora and Eretz Yisrael and provide a glimpse into the intellectual and spiritual life of the Jewish communities in Eretz Yisrael and in the Babylonian exile.