Why are certain prayers spoken corporately at Beth Yeshua?
Within the Hebrew Scripture there were two primary types of prayer–spontaneous and established. While we certainly encourage everyone to pray as the Holy Spirit directs, we also know that established prayers were part of the worship within the First Century Synagogue. At Beth Yeshua, we corporately pray some of the traditional blessings that existed during the lifetime of Yeshua, our Messiah. Because the Psalms (Hebrew–Tehillim) were already in use during the lifetime of Yeshua, we have also included them in our corporate prayers. Since we are commanded to pray for Jerusalem (Psalm 122), we collectively say a prayer every Sabbath for the nation of Israel.
