By Lawrence A. Hoffman,Marc Zvi Brettler,Elliot N. Dorff,David Ellenson,Marcia Falk,Judith Hauptman,Joel M. Hoffman,Lawrence Kushner,Nehemia Polen,Daniel Landes
"The prayer ebook is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a set of prayers composed via generations of these who got here sooner than us, as they endeavored to specific the which means in their lives and their courting to God. The prayer ebook is the essence of the Jewish soul."
My People's Prayer publication provides various and intriguing commentaries to the normal liturgy, written through a few of modern day most precious students and lecturers from all views of the Jewish international. They discover the textual content from the views of old Rabbis and glossy theologians, in addition to feminist, halakhic, medieval, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historic perspectives.
This lovely paintings, an empowering entryway to the religious revival of our occasions, permits we all to say our connection to the history of the normal Jewish prayer publication. It is helping rejuvenate Jewish worship in state-of-the-art global, and makes its energy obtainable to all. The My People's Prayer Book sequence belongs at the library shelf of each domestic, each synagogue—every sanctuary of prayer.
Introductions inform the reader what to seem for within the prayer provider, in addition to tips on how to actually use the commentaries, to look for—and find—meaning within the prayer book.
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