What's Inside

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Guide to Transliteration
  • Notes on Translation and Usage
• Candle Lighting
  • For Shabbat
  • For Yom Tov
• Kabbalat Shabbat
  • Songs to Welcome Shabbat
  • Complete Traditional Text of Kabbalat Shabbat Liturgy
• Maariv for Shabbat and Festivals
  • Alternatives for Amidah, Alenu
• Kiddush
  • For Shabbat Evening and Morning
  • For Yom Tov Evening and Morning
  • For Rosh Hashanah Evening and Morning
  • Blessings for Apples and Honey, Lulav and Etrog
• Birkat HaMazon (Grace after Meals)
  • Traditional Complete Birkat HaMazon
  • Sheva Brachot for Honoring Bride and Groom
  • Popular Alternative Birkat HaMazon blessings and songs
  • A Shorter Birkat HaMazon
• Prayers Recited Throughout the Year
  • Havdalah
  • Announcing the New Month
  • Chanukah Candle Lighting
  • Al HaNissim for Chanukah and Purim
  • Yom HaShoah
  • Counting the Omer
  • Psalm for the Days of Awe
• Psalms
  • Selections from Psalms for singing and study
• For The Study of Torah
  • Blessings for Studying Torah
  • Verses and Songs Celebrating the Torah
  • Kaddish D'Rabbanan
• Songs Based on Jewish Texts
  • Selections from Jewish Texts for singing and study
• Songs and Texts of Israel
• Shabbat Zemirot
  • Eighteen popular Shabbat songs usually sung at the table, with references to relevant Biblical verses explained
• New Rituals
  • A Service for Healing
  • Blessings for Those Leaving our Community (and Traveler's Prayer)
  • Blessings for Those About to Be Married
  • Personifying the Liturgy: A Midrash on Prayer

plus readings, explanations, and inspirations by Ellen Dannin, Mark Frydenberg, Jeremy Golding, Judy Kerman, Larry Milder, Jim Propp, Joe Rosenstein, David Seidenberg, Lisa Stark, and others!

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