My People s Prayer Book Kabbalat Shabbat welcoming Shabbat in the synagogue

• Author : Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
• Release : 06 July 1997

Unique, fresh, honest translations, with notes comparing other translations. This volume of the My PeopleOs Prayer Book series explores the prayers that the Jewish community uses to welcome Shabbat together."

• Author : Kenneth E. Berger
• Publisher : ISD LLC
• Release : 15 March 2019

Minhag (custom) played a far greater and far more important role in medieval Ashkenazic society than in any other Jewish community. In upholding the authority of a custom, halakhic authorities frequently asserted that "custom prevails over halakhah." Furthermore, Ashkenazic authorities asserted that Ashkenazic custom is more authentic than the customs of other Jewish communities, including those of Sepharad (Spain). Given the importance attributed to minhag and the influence of the siddur commentaries of the circle of Hassidei Ashkenaz, which emphasize

• Author : Rabbi Harvey J. Fields,Rabbi Hilly Habor,Cantor Sarah Grabiner,Rabbi Sonja Pilz, Phd
• Publisher : CCAR Press
• Release : 05 February 2021

This extensively revised third edition, now compatible with Mishkan T'filah, offers many voices and unique, contemporary perspectives on our siddur, the order of the service, and the meaning of individual prayers. It reflects on the ways in which our prayer practices continue to evolve. This is an essential educational resource and is indispensable for bar/bat mitzvah and confirmation preparation, as well as for Introduction to Judaism courses and general adult education. "This timely and creative update of a timeless

• Author : Daniel Sperber
• Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
• Release : 06 July 1999

Explanations on the whys and wherefores of many Jewish customs.

• Author : George Robinson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 12 April 2016

You’ll find everything you need to know about being Jewish in this indispensable, revised and updated guide to the religious traditions, everyday practices, philosophical beliefs, and historical foundations of Judaism. What happens at a synagogue service? What are the rules for keeping kosher? How do I light the Hanukah candles? What is in the Hebrew Bible? What do the Jewish holidays signify? What should I be teaching my children about being Jewish? With the first edition of Essential Judaism,

• Author : Ronald H. Isaacs
• Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
• Release : 06 July 2022

• Author : Samuel E. Balentine
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 06 July 2022

"The conceit in the title of this volume is that ritual, however expansively it may be defined, is ineluctably tethered to religion and worship. It has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths

• Author : Sara E. Karesh,Mitchell M. Hurvitz
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 06 July 2022

An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 800 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to the religion of Judaism.

• Author : Behrman House,Bruce Kadden,Barbara Binder Kadden
• Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
• Release : 01 June 2005

Parts I through IV of Teaching Tefilah contain fifteen chapters, each dealing with a section of the worship service or a topic related to prayer. Part V, new in this expanded revised edition, contains six new essays reflecting on recent trends in Jewish worship.

• Author : Naomi Pasachoff,Behrman House
• Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
• Release : 06 July 1986

Through enjoyable stories from the Torah, this book helps young people learn about Jewish tradition and what it means to be Jewish.

• Author : Kerry M. Olitzky,Marc Lee Raphael,Marc Raphael
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 06 July 2022

Provides historical background and explains the meaning of rituals in the American Jewish community.

• Author : Marvin J. Heller
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 01 October 2010

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.

• Author : Ron Wolfson
• Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
• Release : 06 July 2022

Synagogues should be effective and relevant centers of Jewish life but too often the focus is on programs not people, on revenue not relationships. The end result is frequently a corporate atmosphere where membership lacks commitment, core leadership and spiritual fulfillment. In this empowering, practical guide, Dr. Ron Wolfson shows you how to transform your synagogue congregation into a sacred community by focusing on strategies for successful change. Using a case-study format for creating an inviting spiritual center, Wolfson defines

• Author : Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 22 January 2015

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In reality, however, much of Jewish culture has a basis in Jewish law. Similarly, Jewish law produces Jewish culture. A cultural analysis paradigm provides a useful way of understanding the Jewish tradition as the product of both legal precepts and cultural elements. This paradigm sees law and

• Author : Rabbi Arthur Green Phd,Arthur Green
• Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
• Release : 06 July 2022

Judaism itself is a language, a group's way of expressing beliefs, longings, aspirations and dreams. The vocabulary of Jewish life is the framework that Jews use to hand their past down to their children. It is, also, the vocabulary that people of other faiths need to know to understand Judaism and Jewish life. In this revised edition of the ultimate Jewish primer, one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time takes readers on a historical and spiritual journey through