שפתי תפתח

S'fatai Tiftah: Mastery & Meaning is a three-volume series designed to teach prayer mastery and meaning. The three volumes take students through the major sections of a Shabbat morning service-from Barekhu through the concluding prayers.

S'fatai Tiftah has been designed to teach prayer mastery and meaning and to enable students to successfully achieve four major goals:

• to perform basic prayers.
• to develop a generalized understanding.
• to explore personal meaning.
• to understand how Hebrew is constructed.

Each prayer has:

• An introduction that sets the prayer's theme and locates it in the service.
• A drill text and translation that is a source for the unit.
• Key roots that build a language connection.
• Practice sounding out keywords and phrases to help build fluency.
• The opportunity to translate a short portion of the prayer builds a further language connection.
• A story that offers an insight into the prayer's spiritual meaning.