Aleinu
" Alejnu leschabe'ach [ ... ] " (Hebrew " עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ "; German " [ it is ] to us ...") is part of the three Jewish day prayers.
Description
Main subject of prayer is the idea of a kingdom of God on earth and the hope of uniting all people in worship of the one God, for which even a slightly modified form of expression tikkun olam is used in the text. It is traced back to about 1300 as part of the daily prayers.
In each case, presented at the end of every prayer, so it is referred to in prayer books with German translation as a closing prayer. It stands at the end of the morning prayer ( Shacharit ), of the noon prayer ( Mincha ) and evening Gebes ( Maariv ). It is spoken in the blessing of the new moon in the port, and after a circumcision. Only the Kaddish is recited frequently.
A popular tradition attributes this prayer to the biblical Joshua at the time of his conquest of Jericho zu.Eine other assignment is. To the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period
In German prayer books, the text was censored since about 1400, so that the phrase " for they pray impermanence and emptiness and pray to a god that does not help " is passed down only in the non-German prayer books.