Q&A: Jewish Laws
Jewish Laws
Question
Hello, honorable Rabbi. I would be very grateful if you could please tell me, in your opinion, what weekday and Sabbath prayer should contain, and likewise Grace after Meals, for a person who has currently decided not to follow teachings of Kabbalah, and who also finds repetitive recitation of long texts very difficult (and for the sake of the discussion and clarity—without taking into account any public implications that might result from this), but it is important to note that this should be optimal from the outset, and not merely a post facto allowance because it is difficult.
Answer
I did not understand what you mean by not following teachings of Kabbalah. Do you mean the esoteric tradition? In any case, see about this in the book Sidduran Shel Yechidim: http://www.files.org.il/BRPortalStorage/a/3/01/15/71-MuQb9un6dX.pdf
Discussion on Answer
I am not familiar with such a source. In my book on the roots there is a discussion in the sixth and ninth roots, and there is also a series of columns here on the site about types of commandments.
Column 414 and onward.
Thank you very much, honorable Rabbi. I so enjoy reading it. Yes, I did mean the esoteric tradition.
I have a question on another topic, if that's okay. I wanted to ask, with your permission, whether you could refer me to a source of information, or write some kind of classification and definition of the different types of Jewish law. I see that in everything I study this is the most basic thing one needs to know, and unfortunately it is not organized for me at all (existential, positive, prohibition, command, positive commandment, time-bound, enactment, concern, custom, decree, based on reasoning, based on citation, rational, received by tradition, rabbinic, Torah-level, and so on and so on).