About My People's Prayer Book
Anxiety and Opportunity: The Mood of Nighttime Prayer
Lawrence A. Hoffman
Introduction to the Liturgy: The Shape of Minchah and Ma’ariv
Lawrence A. Hoffman
The Halakhic Status of Minchah and Ma’ariv
Daniel Landes
Introduction to the Commentaries: How to Look for Meaning in the
Prayers
Lawrence A. Hoffman
The Liturgy
1. Ma’ariv (Weekday and Shabbat)
A. Opening Verses
I. Psalm 134
II. Miscellaneous Verses
III. V’hu Rachum ("He Is Merciful")
B. The Sh’ma and Its Blessings
I. Blessing on Creation: Ma’ariv Aravim (“Who Brings on
Evening”)
II. Blessing on Revelation: Ahavat Olam (“Eternal Love”)
III. Blessing on Redemption: Emet Ve’emunah (“True and
Trustworthy”)
IV. Blessing for a Safe Night: Hashkivenu (“Lie Us Down to
Peace”)
V. A Fifth Evening Blessing: Barukh Adonai L’olam (“Blessed Is
Adonai Forever”)
C. Announcement Of Sacred Time
D. The Amidah
I. A Havdalah in the Amidah for Saturday Night
II. The K’dushat Hayom (“Sanctification of the Day”) for Shabbat
Ma’ariv
III. The Ma’ariv Blessing for Peace: Birkat Shalom
E. Magen Avot (“Protecting Our Ancestors”)
F. The Synagogue Kiddush
G. Counting the Omer
I. Kavvanah (Introductory Meditation)
II. Blessing on Counting
III. Counting
IV. Psalm 67
V. Ana B’kho’akh (“By the Might”)
VI. Kavvanah (Closing Meditation)
H. Closing Prayers
I. Psalm 27
II. Psalm 49
2. Minchah (Additions for Shabbat)
A. The Amidah
I. The K’dushat Hayom (“Sanctification of the Day”) for Shabbat
Minchah
II. Tsidkat’kha Tsedek (“Your Righteousness Is Right”) for Shabbat
Minchah
About the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical
Studies at Brandeis University. He contributed to all volumes of
the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern
Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and
to My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern
Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef; All These
Vows—Kol Nidre; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in
Judaism—Yizkor; and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in
Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor of
The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Jewish Study Bible,
which won the National Jewish Book Award; co-author of The Bible
and the Believer; and author of How to Read the Jewish Bible, among
other books and articles. He has also been interviewed on National
Public Radio’s Fresh Air by Terry Gross.
Dr. David Ellenson is president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish
Institute of Religion. Dr. Ellenson was ordained as a rabbi at HUC
JIR and received his PhD from Columbia University. His book After
Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity won the
National Jewish Book Award. His most recent book, Pledges of Jewish
Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa, was coauthored with Daniel
Gordis.
Ellen Frankel, LCSW, a member of Congregation Shirat Hayam, is a
popular author and speaker on spirituality and wellness. Her work
has been featured on TV nationally and in The Boston Globe, The
Jewish Journal North of Boston and The Jewish Advocate.
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.
He has written and edited many books, including All the World:
Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days; May God
Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, We Have
Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet, Who by
Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef and All These Vows—Kol Nidre, the
first five volumes in the Prayers of Awe series; the My People's
Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series,
winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and he is coeditor of My
People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries
(all Jewish Lights), a finalist for the National Jewish Book
Award.
Rabbi Hoffman is a developer of Synagogue 3000, a
transdenominational project designed to envision and implement the
ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century.
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, is available to speak on the
following topics:
A Day of Wine and Moses: The Passover Haggadah and the Seder You
Have Always Wanted
Preparing for the High Holy Days: How to Appreciate the Liturgy of
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The Essence of Jewish Prayer: The Prayer Book in Context and
Worship in Our Time
Beyond Ethnicity: The Coming Project for North American Jewish
Identity
Synagogue Change: Transforming Synagogues as Spiritual and Moral
Centers for the Twenty-First Century
Click here to contact the author.
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is one of the most widely read authors by
people of all faiths on Jewish spiritual life. He is the
best-selling author of such books as Invisible Lines of Connection:
Sacred Stories of the Ordinary; God Was in This Place & I, i Did
Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning; Honey
from the Rock: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism; The Book of
Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alphabet; The Book of Miracles: A Young
Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness; The Book of Words:
Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk; Eyes Remade for
Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader; I'm God, You're Not:
Observations on Organized Religion and other Disguises of the Ego;
Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians; The River
of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness; The Way Into Jewish Mystical
Tradition; and co-author of Because Nothing Looks Like God; How
Does God Make Things Happen?; Where Is God?; What Does God Look
Like?; and In God's Hands. He is the Emanu-El Scholar at San
Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El and an adjunct professor of
Jewish mysticism and spirituality at Hebrew Union College–Jewish
Institute of Religion.
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is available to speak on the following
topics:
• Jewish Mystical Imagination
• Rymanover's Silent Aleph: What Really Happened on Sinai
• Zohar on Romance and Revelation
• What Makes Kabbalah Kabbalah
• Sacred Stories of the Ordinary: When God Makes a Surprise
Appearance in Everyday Life
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Rabbi Nehemia Polen is professor of Jewish thought at Hebrew
College. He is the
author of The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman
Shapira, the
Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto and The Rebbe's Daughter, recipient of a
National
Jewish Book Award. He is also a contributor to the award-winning My
People's
Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries (Jewish
Lights).
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the director and rosh hayeshivah of the
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Pardes brings
together men and women of all backgrounds to study classical Jewish
texts and contemporary Jewish issues in a rigorous, challenging and
open-minded environment.Rabbi Landes is also a contributor to the
My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries
series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and My People's
Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a
finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Who by Fire, Who by
Water—Un’taneh Tokef; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in
Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet and All These Vows—Kol Nidre (all
Jewish Lights).
"Like being surrounded by a group of specially learned and
accessible study partners."
—Houston Jewish Herald-Voice
"An excellent place to begin [study].... Helps readers understand
the different ways our ancestors looked at the close of day and the
dark hours of the night."
—Vestal (NY) Reporter
"An immensely rewarding volume.... Speak to the possibilities of a
life dedicated to prayer and the study of its purpose."
—Louisville Community
"Informative, powerful and moving."
—Liberal Judaism
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