Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, has served for more than three
decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish
Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist
and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy,
Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual,
worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal
of contemporary Judaism.
His many books, written and edited, include seven volumes in the
Prayers of Awe series: Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef;
All These Vows—Kol Nidre; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in
Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet; May God Remember: Memory and
Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; All the World: Universalism,
Particularism and the High Holy Days; Naming God: Avinu
Malkeinu—Our Father, Our King; and Encountering God: El Rachum
V'chanun—God Merciful and Gracious. Hoffman also edited the
ten-volume series My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers,
Modern Commentaries, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and
coedited My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern
Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (all
Jewish Lights).
Rabbi Hoffman cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a
transdenominational project to envision and implement the ideal
synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century. In that
capacity, he wrote Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for
Congregational Life (Jewish Lights).
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