My People's Prayer Book Vol 7 Shabbat at Home [Paperback]

Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God, history and tradition, through the heritage of prayer.

The 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.

Framed with beautifully designed Talmud-style pages, commentaries from many of today's most respected Jewish scholars from all movements of Judaism examine Shabbat at home from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, Talmudic, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives.

My Peoples Prayer Bookis a momentous multi-volume series that opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book (the Siddur) as a spiritual resource. Commentaries by respected teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world provide the spiritual messages that make up the Siddur.

Sometimes awe-striking, sometimes surprising, but always deeply spiritual,My Peoples Prayer Bookis a gateway to the riches that the heritage of prayer offers us in our worship, and in our lives.

The seventh volume celebrates Shabbat as a central family ritual, tracing the development of this loosely structured liturgy from early prayer books that draw on the classical rabbinic era, through medieval Jewish practice and the influence of Lurianic mysticism. Pausing to explore the key moments that mark this sacred timeErev ShabbatwithKiddush, Kiddusha Rabbah,andMotsaei ShabbatwithHavdalahShabbat at Homecaptures the joy of this holy days prayers, blessings, andzmirot(table songs), emphasizing the renewal of home liturgy in Jewish life and reinforcing the importance oflsH