My People's Prayer Book Vol 2: The Amidah - Marc Zvi Brettler

Descriere My People's Prayer Book Vol 2: The Amidah - Marc Zvi Brettler

Designed to help make Jewish prayer accessible, informative, and inspiring to today's worshipers, this book in the popular series focuses on the familiar Amidah. This clear, new translation opens up the many facets of the Amidah liturgy to modern worshipers. \n \nThe prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul.\n My People's Prayer Book provides diverse and exciting commentaries to the traditional liturgy, written by some of today's most respected scholars and teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world. They explore the text from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, medieval, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives. \n\n \nThis stunning work, an empowering entryway to the spiritual revival of our times, enables all of us to claim our connection to the heritage of the traditional Jewish prayer book. It helps rejuvenate Jewish worship in today's world, and makes its power accessible to all. The My People's Prayer Book series belongs on the library shelf of every home, every synagogue--every sanctuary of prayer.\n \nIntroductions tell the reader what to look for in the prayer service, as well as how to truly use the commentaries, to search for--and find--meaning in the prayer book.\n \nContributors: \nMarc Brettler - Elliot N. Dorff - David Ellenson - Marica Falk - Judith Hauptman - Joel M. Hoffman - Lawrence A. Hoffman - Lawrence Kushner - Daniel Landes - Nehemia Polen\n \n

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Jewish Lights Publishing

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ENSTK

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9781683362128

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1

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