Lawrence A. Hoffman 
My People’s Prayer Book Vol 1 [EPUB ebook] 
The Sh’ma and Its Blessings

MINHAG AMI: OUR DIARY OF PRAYER ACROSS THE CENTURIES Lawrence A. Hoffman INTRODUCTION TO THE LITURGY: WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE SERVICE INTRODUCTION TO THE COMMENTARIES: HOW TO LOOK FOR MEANING IN THE PRAYERS THE LITURGY 1. BAR’KHU Call to Prayer 2. YOTSER Blessing on Creation 3. BIRKAT HATORAH Blessing on Revelation 4. SH’MA A. ‘ACCEPTING THE YOKE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN’ (DEUTERONOMY:4–8) B. “ACCEPTING THE YOKE OF THE COMMANDMENTS” (DEUTERONOMY:13–21) C. “THE SECTION ON TASSELS” (NUMBERS:37–41). Contents 0a Frontmatter/18/08:56 PM Page v 5. G’ULLAH Blessing on Redemption About the Commentators List of Abbreviations Glossary About Jewish Lights

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph D, 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, Ph D, 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.