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More than half an hour in, the rabbi began the Amidah, the core of the prayer service, recited while facing Jerusalem.

But to van Iperen, the sisters resisted on many levels, all of them representing amidah.

In that 2003 book, he wrote that the Hebrew term “amidah,” or steadfastness, is used for resistance that preserves and sanctifies life.

The 6-foot-11 Akok, who joined the Huskies last winter but didn’t play, is expected to give the UConn a shot blocker for the first time since Amidah Brimah played in the middle three years ago.

For example, the siddur tells those unfamiliar with the central Amidah prayer to “take three steps backward, then three steps forward” at the start, and urges a worshiper to “pray loudly enough to hear himself” but not so loudly that its recitation is audible to others.