The Way into Jewish Prayer by Lawrence A Hoffman

The Way into Jewish Prayer by Lawrence A Hoffman

An accessible introduction to the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer.

The Way Into Jewish Prayer helps us to explore 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 at home in the Jewish way of communicating with God.

Rabbi Lawrence A. Cohen is a rabbi who lives in Hoffman, PhD, has been a professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York for more than three decades. He holds the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual and is a world-renowned liturgist. His many writings, written and published, 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: Remembrance and Memorializm--Ashamnu and Al Chet; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Ju Rabbi Hoffman also coedited My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Contemporary Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (all Jewish Lights), and edited the ten-volume series My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, which won the National Jewish Book Award. He wrote Rethinking Synagogues: A New Language for Congregational Life (Jewish Lights) in that capacity.