The Song of Songs: Love Poems from the Bible

Marcia Falk

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

INNER EAST: Illuminated Poems and Blessings

Oak & Acorn Press

<p>We are delighted to bring Marcia Falk's groundbreaking book of creative liturgy back into print. With new essays by scholars Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Rabbi Naamah Kelman, Rabbi Dalia Marx, and Rabbi David Ellenson, this volume will inspire a new generation and re-ignite those who encountered this innovative collection when it was first published in 1996. Offering a complete liturgy in English and Hebrew for weekdays, Shabbat, and Rosh Chodesh, The Book of Blessings is guide and inspiration to all who seek an authentic connection to the divine. With this 20th-anniversary edition, which includes a new preface by the author as well as the original commentaries, Marcia Falk's visionary work is poised, once again, to help communities all over the world to shape the conversation around Jewish prayer in essential and novel ways.</p>

The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, The Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

CCAR Press

Winner of the Spirituality & Practice's Spiritual Book of the Year (2014)The Jewish High Holidays—the ten days beginning with the New Year Festival of Rosh Hashanah and culminating with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—constitute the most sacred period of the Jewish year. During this season, religious as well as nonaffiliated Jews attend synagogue services in unparalleled numbers. Yet much of what they find there can be unwelcoming in its patriarchal imagery, leaving many worshipers unsatisfied. For those seeking to connect more deeply with their Judaism, and for all readers in search of a contemplative approach to the themes of the fall season, poet and scholar Marcia Falk re-creates the holidays’ key prayers and rituals from an inclusive perspective. Among the offerings in The Days Between are Hebrew and English blessings for festive meals, prayers for synagogue services, and poems and meditations for quiet reflection. Emphasizing introspection as well as relationship to others, Falk evokes her vision of the High Holidays as “ten days of striving to keep the heart open to change.”Accessible and welcoming to modern readers, The Days Between is steeped in traditional sources and grounded in liturgical and biblical scholarship. It will serve as a meaningful alternative or supplement to the traditional liturgy for individuals, families, synagogues, and communities small and large—that is, for all who seek fresh meaning in the High Holidays.

The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season (HBI Series on Jewish Women)

Brandeis

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