mitpallel

One who prays.

Noun

  1. One who prays.
    • In this connection, the Siddur and the act of Jewish prayer merit honored status within the curriculum of the Jewish school, because they can reinvigorate the mitpallel with faith in teshuvah and remind the teacher and...
    • While it is necessary to have ten men to form a minyan, it is also important that the minyan become a tzibbur of mitpallelim and that the worship experience be a positive one. - 1991, Basil Herring, The Rabbinate as...
    • For simple prayer, kavvana means simple sincerity. It means that the mitpallel means what he says to God and feels it very deeply - 1997, Seth Kadish, Kavvana:

Origin

Borrowed from Hebrew מִתְפַּלֵּל.

Forms

mitpallelim mitpalel