Revitalizing Jewish Prayer

     An article about revitalizing Jewish prayer discusses how discovering better ways to pray will keep us from losing a core of Jewish religious life. From my point of view, the core of Jewish religious life will be lost if we continue to change the ways of Jewish prayer. I can understand the concept of wanting to adjust our beliefs, and some of the laws of הלכה, to adapt to the modern world, but adapting to the modern world and completely changing the base of our religion. The idea of revitalizing Jewish prayer is flawed simply because of the way it's defined (according to this article). It states that revitalizing Jewish prayer is a way of altering what each of the laws mean. I would define revitalizing Jewish prayer as adapting the practices of  הלכה to apply more towards the modern world, while still keeping the basic laws and beliefs that can still be practiced in the modern world. For example, the sacrifice of animals is no longer an applicable law to our current day and age, but saying a short blessing before eating something is something that can still be done today without negatively affecting our daily lives. I personally say a prayer before anything I eat or drink to constantly remind me to be thankful for the life I have, and although I do not follow some of the other rules of הלכה, that does not mean that I don't understand the concept and relation in in faith to God.