"True Prayer Breaks Spells"

In this reflection, primarily in dialog with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Martin Buber, I consider what it means for us to pray Israel’s Psalms—the same prayers Jesus learned from his mother and taught to his disciples. We live on borrowed breath and borrowed prayers, after all, and only Israel’s prayers, prayed by the God of Israel, can save us from the spellbinders.