Mas'as Kappai On Tefillah I

"Enlightening comments on the daily, Sabbath and Festival services." That is ArtScroll's description of Mas'as Kappai on Tefillah, and this is the first volume - the entry point to Rabbi David Cohen's running treatment of the words we say every day and rarely stop to examine.

Most people daven the same text thousands of times. A commentary on tefillah earns its place by making a familiar phrase strange again for a moment, long enough to notice what it is actually saying. That is the work this series does, across the weekday davening as well as Shabbos and Yom Tov.

It is a 6.00 x 9.00 inch hardcover. The publisher's record does not give a page count for this volume, so that line is absent from the specifications below rather than estimated. What we can say is that the trim and binding match the rest of the series, so volumes bought over time will sit together properly.

The natural use is a few minutes before davening rather than during it: read one comment, then say the tefillah it belongs to. Volume 1 is where to start if you are considering the series and do not want to commit to the whole run at once.

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