What Is: Siddur?

Grades: 6-8     The What is? series is a basic introduction to Jewish literacy.

Siddur means order—and the siddur is the Jewish order of prayer. Unlike many other religions, but like a lot of others—Jews have a fixed order of prayers. Prayers go in the same order every day. This order evolves from the order and rhythm of the sacrifices in the ancient Temple. After the destruction of the Temple, services were created to replace sacrifices and the order of those services were described in the Talmud and put into practice in the Siddur.

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