<p style="margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nehalel</em></strong>&nbsp;is modeled on the&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nevarech</em>&nbsp;bencher, which in 1999 pioneered the idea of juxtaposing prayers with photographs portraying their meanings. Messages still continually come in from people discovering&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nevarech</em>, telling us that&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Birkat Hamazon</em>&nbsp;(Grace After Meals) ¢‚¬ a prayer they may have recited every day since childhood ¢‚¬ is suddenly brought to life by the photographs alongside its text.&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nehalel</em>&nbsp;now brings this coming-to-life effect to the full orthodox liturgy.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With this use of photographs,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nehalel</em>&nbsp;makes us powerfully aware of the themes that intersect in the Siddur.</strong>&nbsp;The liturgy celebrates the Creator of our spectacular environment ¢‚¬ the cosmic, earthly and Eretz-Yisraeli, the universal human environment as well as the national. It speaks our thanks for the gift of our lives within these; and through it we plead for personal, national and human welfare. Repeatedly, the Siddur recounts the catastrophes in our history, of destruction and exile, and then turns to our redemptions ¢‚¬ the pattern intensely realized during the last century; and on almost every page we point to Jerusalem as the central symbol of the complete redemption we yearn for.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.8em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The images in&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nehalel</em>&nbsp;reflect these different themes. The photos are partly contemporary and partly historical; partly of the natural order, partly of human reality; partly from Eretz Yisrael, partly from a much wider panorama. Many are drawn from various archives ¢‚¬ some documenting the dark times in Europe, others showing the triumphs of modern Zionism.</p>