Hannah's prayer

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1. The Character of Chana (part 1)

   Chapter 1

   Rabbi Amnon Bazak

   Hannah's powerful character is at the center of the first story in the Book of Shmuel. Hannah copes with emunah and extraordinary strength of character with extreme difficulties, while forging new paths toward Avodat Hashem.

2. Chana's Prayer

   Chapter 3

   Rabbi Amnon Bazak

   The structure and content of Tefillat Chana uncovers various problems with attributing the authorship of this prayer to Chana. This lesson will resolve these difficulties in the context of a greater challenge: the incompatibility between psalms and their titles.

3. Hannah

   HaTanakh.com Staff

4. Prayer is not a Plea

   Rabbi Dr. Yoel Bin Nun

5. Know how to Pray

   Rabbi Moshe Cohen

6. The Power of Prayer

   Rabbi Amnon Bazak

7. Why Did the Sages Compare Chana to a Sotah Woman?

   Dr. Adina Sternberg | Hour and 8 minutes

   How is Chana's story portrayed in midrashic literature, and what can we learn from this portrayal? A close reading of the text of the story reveals how the sages came to their surprising interpretations, and teaches us how to view the goals and purposes of midrashim.  

8. The Anatomy of Prayers in I Shmuel Chapters 1-2

   Rabbi Dr. Avraham Walfish | Hour and 11 minutes

   What makes Chana's prayer unique? What spiritual messages and inspiration can we learn from Chana's story? Through a close reading of the text as well as an examination of parallels with Sefer Shoftim, we learn about the essence of prayer, and about the power of prayer in changing God's decrees. 

9. Nitzavim Vayelekh - Engaging with God

   Rabbi Jonathan Snowbell | 17 minutes

   This parasha proclaims that the Torah is "not in the heavens, nor beyond the sea" - it is not far removed from us, or out of our reach. The Torah challenges us to relate to the Torah. We have the capacity to reach out directly toward a relationship with God. Hannah, who prayed for a child in the Mikdash at Shiloh, serves as an example of such direct engagement.

10. I Shmuel 1-2

    Matan Al Haperek

    Matan Al HaPerek - Neta Shapira

    The story of Shmuel’s birth begins a new chapter in the history of the Jewish people. Both the book and the influential character of Shmuel serve as the transition between the national tragedies recounted at the end of Shoftim and the glorious heights the nation reached during the early days of the monarchy. 

11. The Lord killeth and maketh alive" (1Sam. 2) – A Rabbinic Reading of a Biblical Text

    Dr. Yonatan Feintuch | 58 minutes

    This shiur deals with the relationship between midrash and pshat (the simple reading of biblical verses). It addresses the question whether midrashic narratives that do not appear to have a textual basis in the biblical narrative, are rabbinic ideas that are artificially attached to the biblical text, or are actually an alternative, sophisticated reading of various implicit elements that exist in the text itself . The large part of the shiur will address these questions specifically through the lens of a brief midrashic narrative, which describes the biblical character of Channa (Shmuel's mother) as praying on behalf of the sect of Korach, and elevating them from the netherworld where they sank after their rebellion against Moshe.