Heschel’s Wonder-11/01/2021

Prayer and the Community

It is not safe to pray alone. Tradition insists that we pray with, and as a part of, the community, that public worship is preferable to private worship. Here we are faced with an aspect of the polarity of prayer. There is a permanent union between individual worship and community worship, each of which depends for its existence upon the other. To ignore their spiritual symbiosis will prove fatal to both.

Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism