On Changes in Jewish Liturgy

On Changes in Jewish Liturgy
Author: Daniel Sperber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This book demonstrates the complexity, fluidity and variety in Jewish liturgy, and discusses the possible parameters of change, be it in additions, deletions, alterations, and/or corrections, so as to reflect the contemporary situation and its sensitivities. It will stimulate thought and discussion and lead to a deeper appreciation of the nature of the liturgy, and an ability to find greater meaning in prayer.

The Littlest Owl

The Littlest Owl
Author: Caroline Pitcher
Publisher: Little Tiger Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Birds
ISBN: 9781845066222

Four, the last to hatch and smaller than his sibblings, cannot fly as soon as One, Two and Three can. Yet he never gives up trying, and in the end his efforts pay off.

Sefer Ha-berakhot

Sefer Ha-berakhot
Author: Marcia Falk
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780807010174

A collection of blessings, poems, meditations, and rituals presented in English and Hebrew offers a traditional perspective to weekday, Sabbath, and New Moon festival observances.

Sacred Sound and Social Change

Sacred Sound and Social Change
Author: Lawrence A. Hoffman
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 301
Release: 1993-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268160570

Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors trace Jewish music from its place in Hebrew Scriptures through the nineteenth-century Reform movement. Similar accounts of Christian music describe its growth up to the Protestant Reformation, as well as post-Reformation development. Other essays explore liturgical music in contemporary North America by analyzing it against the backdrop of the continuous social change that characterizes our era.

Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship

Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship
Author: Albert Gerhards
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047422414

Presenting new insights into the history and interaction between Jewish and Christian liturgy and worship, the various contributions offer a deeper understanding of the identity of Judaism and Christianity. It addresses issues such as: – Is the Eucharistic Prayer a ‘Berakha’ and what information is available for the reconstruction of the history of the Jewish ‘Grace after Meals’? – How does Jewish liturgy rework the Bible, and are Christians and Jews using similar methods when they create liturgical poetry on the basis of a biblical text? – Which texts of the Cairo Genizah are of direct importance for the history of Christian liturgies, and are Christian creeds in fact Prayers or Hymns? – What does it mean that both Jews and Christians recite Isaiah's "Holy, Holy, Holy" at important points in their respective liturgies? Questions like these brought together scholars and specialists from different disciplines to share their recent insights at a conference in Aachen, Germany, and to offer the reader a fascinating discourse on a broad range of aspects of Jewish and Christian liturgies.

From Ideology to Liturgy

From Ideology to Liturgy
Author: Eric Caplan
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2022-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0878207031

In the 2002 edition of From Ideology to Liturgy, Eric Caplan examined Reconstructionism's interpretation and adaptation of the traditional Jewish liturgy and its creation of new prayer texts to convey and express the movement's changing ideology. Further insight into Reconstructionist liturgy was gained through comparing these prayerbooks to the contemporaneous liturgies of Reform and Conservative Judaism and to the work of Jewish Renewal. In this new supplemented reprint edition, Caplan offers an expansive study of liberal Jewish prayerbooks published in the decades since From Ideology to Liturgy first appeared and revisits his earlier conclusions in light of more recent expanded access to Mordecai Kaplan's diaries and archives.

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199280322

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

שערי תפלה

שערי תפלה
Author: Chaim Stern
Publisher: CCAR Press
Total Pages: 804
Release: 1975-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780916694012

Profoundly rooted in Jewish tradition, Gates of Prayer has become the standard liturgical work for the Reform Movement. This prayerbook contains a variety of services for weekdays, Shabbat and festivals, Israeli Independence Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Tisha Be-av. Also contains special readings, meditations and 70 songs complete with transliterations.

Judaism and Hebrew Prayer

Judaism and Hebrew Prayer
Author: Stefan C. Reif
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521483414

A scholarly but readable guide to the history of Jewish prayer from biblical times to the modern period.

Ki Anu ʻamekha

Ki Anu ʻamekha
Author: Lawrence A. Hoffman
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 158023612X

A comprehensive series of lively introductions and commentaries examines the history of confession in Judaism, its roots in the Bible, its evolution in rabbinic and modern thought, and the very nature of confession today.