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A companion to The Way Into Jewish Prayer, an accessible introduction to the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. This guide helps you explore with a group the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. It opens the door to 3,000 years of Jewish prayer, making available all you need to feel
Publié par
Date de parution
27 février 2017
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EAN13
9781683367390
Langue
English
For everyone who wants to understand Jewish prayer, this book shows the way into an essential aspect of Judaism, and allows you to interact directly with the sacred texts of the Jewish tradition.
Guided by Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, rabbi and professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, The Way Into Jewish Prayer helps us explore the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. Offering an invitation and a roadmap to becoming a more prayerful person, it leads us to an in-depth understanding of:
Why we pray . The Jewish paths to God and the many ways that Jews can think of a God who is beyond description: a surprising invitation to consider the images of God that have moved the greatest Jewish minds to know they are not alone.
How we pray. Fixed prayer and spontaneous prayer, the standard prayer service and the prayer of the heart: the many modes by which Jews transcend the self.
Where we pray. In synagogue and home, in sacred community and by ourselves: the Jewish paths to the sacred on which we walk each day.
What we pray. The great ideas of Jewish prayer that have sustained Jewish worshipers through time: Jewish views on the universe, human nature, human destiny, and life after death.
Here is a book that opens the door to 3,000 years of Jewish prayer, making available all you need to feel at home in the Jewish way of communicating with God.
Adult instruction masterfully modeled. . . . A first step in the exploration of Jewish prayer and a paragon of pedagogy directed at adult novice learners.
-Conservative Judaism
A fine addition to an important series on the Jewish religion.
-American Library Association s Booklist
Creatively weaves examples from the entire range of Jewish texts-Psalms, the daily liturgy, Talmud, non-synagogue prayers-to buttress his case for a life of prayerful consciousness as a Jewish spiritual discipline. . . . A rich invitation to contemporary readers to appreciate the wisdom and depth of historical Jewish liturgy while nurturing kavvanah each person brings.
-Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly
Other Jewish Lights books by Lawrence A. Hoffman
Israel-A Spiritual Travel Guide: A Companion for the Modern Jewish Pilgrim
My People s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries (Two Volumes; coedited with David Arnow, PhD)
Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life
Who by Fire, Who by Water -Un taneh Tokef
The Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only (from SkyLight Paths, Jewish Lights sister imprint)
My People s Prayer Book Series Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries
Vol. 1- The Sh ma and Its Blessings
Vol. 2- The Amidah
Vol. 3-P sukei D zimrah (Morning Psalms)
Vol. 4-Seder K riat Hatorah (The Torah Service)
Vol. 5-Birkhot Hashachar (Morning Blessings)
Vol. 6-Tachanun and Concluding Prayers
Vol. 7- Shabbat at Home
Vol. 8-Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming Shabbat in the Synagogue)
Vol. 9- Welcoming the Night: Minchah and Ma ariv (Afternoon and Evening Prayer)
Vol. 10- Shabbat Morning: Shacharit and Musaf (Morning and Additional Services)
For Children
What You Will See Inside a Synagogue (from SkyLight Paths, Jewish Lights sister imprint)
The Way Into
Jewish Prayer
Lawrence A. Hoffman
The Way Into Jewish Prayer
2010 Quality Paperback Edition, Third Printing
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
For information regarding permission to reprint material from this book, please mail or fax your request in writing to Jewish Lights Publishing.
2000 by Lawrence A. Hoffman
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoffman, Lawrence A., 1942-
The way into Jewish prayer / Lawrence A. Hoffman.
p. cm. - (The way into -)
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-68336-445-0 (hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58023-201-2 (pbk.)
1. Prayer-Judaism. 2. Judaism-Liturgy. I. Title. II. Series.
BM669.H64 2000
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Manufactured in the United States of America Cover design by Glenn Suokko Text design by Glenn Suokko
Published by Jewish Lights Publishing www.jewishlights.com
About The Way Into . . .
The Way Into . . . is a major series that provides an accessible and highly usable guided tour of the Jewish faith and people, its history and beliefs-in total, a basic introduction to Judaism for adults that will enable them to understand and interact with sacred texts.
The Authors
Each book in the series is written by a leading contemporary teacher and thinker. While each of the authors brings his or her own individual style of teaching to the series, every volume s approach is the same: to help you to learn, in a life-affecting way, about important concepts in Judaism.
The Concepts
Each volume in The Way Into . . . Series explores one important concept in Judaism, including its history, its basic vocabulary, and what it means to Judaism and to us. In the Jewish tradition of study, the reader is helped to interact directly with sacred texts.
The topics to be covered in The Way Into . . . Series:
Torah
Jewish Prayer
Encountering God in Judaism
Jewish Mystical Tradition
Covenant and Commandment
Holiness and Chosenness ( Kedushah )
Time
Judaism and the Environment
Zion
Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World)
Money and Ownership
Women and Men
The Relationship between Jews and Non-Jews
The Varieties of Jewishness
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman to the creation of this series. In his lifelong work of bringing a greater appreciation of Judaism to all people, he saw the need for The Way Into . . . and inspired us to act on it.
Contents
About The Way Into . . .
Timeline
Acknowledgments
1. God and the Jewish People: To Whom Jews Pray
Surprisingly, prayer is mostly not about petitioning an all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing deity to grant our wishes. Provides a foundation for thinking deeply about what prayer is, along with a spectrum of modern Jewish thinkers views on the nature of the God to whom we pray.
2. Prayer as Discipline and as Art: How Prayer Works
Jewish prayer takes place spontaneously or in fixed form; in the synagogue, at home, or through blessings designed to greet the miracle of the sacred along the way.
3. The Synagogue Sanctuary: What s What and Why It Is So
Everything in a synagogue-from the ark to the reader s desk-has a history, as well as a symbolism that points all the way back to the desert wanderings of the Israelites and the First Temple built by King Solomon some three thousand years ago.
4. The Community at Prayer: Who s Who and What They Do
The nature of the Jewish community at worship. Explores the principles of prayer in Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Judaism, and why the various denominations have different views on some things yet agree on others.
5. The Ideas of Jewish Prayer: What Matters Most
Prayer makes a difference in how we live our lives, because it is a distilled and ritualized reminder of the things that are great, noble, and worth living for. Delves into the great truths of Jewish tradition-about God, human nature, the cosmos, and what we most hope happens at the end of time-as they are found in the prayer book.
6. A Prayerful Person at Home and on the Way: When the Ordinary Can Be Sacred
How we can become prayerful people who appreciate the miracles of daily life, greet the world with blessings, appreciate the feel of the year s different seasons, and build a life filled with moments of mystery.
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgments
Like many authors of this series, I suspect, my way into Jewish scholarship began with family history. I am the product of parents and grandparents who valued Jewish learning. Coming from a small town in southern Ontario, however, my learning was distinctly limited, informed primarily by an hour or two a week with a single devoted rabbi, Philip Rosenzweig, and my own father who sat me down to teach me the Hebrew alphabet when I was five. As a graduating high school student, I still knew no Hebrew, had never opened any of the classics of a rabbinic library, had yet to read a serious book in Jewish history or theology, and had never even heard of the word liturgy. One prominent rabbi said I knew so little that it was too late to consider a rabbinic calling. I mention all of this so people on the way into Jewish knowledge may recognize that it is never too late to begin.
My real beginning was at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where I encountered many devoted teachers. Leon Liebreich first introduced me to the academic study of liturgy, through a book-length syllabus that invited us to look up discussions and citations throughout rabbinic literature. Canadian high schools had taught me never to skip a homework assignment, and by the time the course had ended, I was hooked on the excitement of Judaism s prayer tradition. That excitement was enhanced by Dr. John Tepfer, who frightened me to death with his Socratic method of teaching, but who was reputed to know everything; he introduced me to rabbinic literature and advanced work in liturgy. Dr. Eugene Borowitz was virtually inventing the field of Jewish theology at the time, and, although I didn t recognize it until years later, he was making me into a theologian. More than anyone else, Gene has continued to be my mentor over the years. Dr. Martin Cohen and Dr. Stanley Dreyfus supervised my rabbinic thesis and they too added immeasurably to my learning. I thank the College-Institute for my doctoral work in the field also, particularly the late Dr. Jakob Petuchowski, z l , who supervised my work in liturgy.
