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An indispensable guide to understanding synagogue prayer
This book is now widely recognised as the best Introduction to the synagogue service and guide to the daily and Sabbath liturgy.
Written in lively, user-friendly, style, for those with inquiring minds, it offers paragraph-by-paragraph, page-by-page, service-by-service, commentary (cross-referenced in the margin to both Singer's prayers Book and Art Scroll), as well as guidance as to what to do at each stage of the service: when to stand, sit, bow, sing aloud, pray silently, etc., and when and what to respond. For the non-Hebrew reader, there is a transliterated section, enabling prayers to be recited in their original Hebrew form. There is also a 'Test Your Hebrew Reading Skills,' providing a 'Key to Hebrew Reading,' with graduated Hebrew vocabulary and its corresponding transliteration, making this book, in addition, a multi-purpose educational tool.
For those who seek succinct general information on the nature of Jewish prayer, and the character, ethos and organisation of the synagogue, the opening chapters are highly rewarding. They discuss a wide-range of related issues, such as the need to pray, spontaneity, the appeal of the Siddur (prayer book), the synagogue, decorum, the minyan (prayer quorum), swaying during prayer, the synagogue officials, appurtenances, the rabbi, cantor, shammash (sexton), the ark, scrolls of the law, the bimah (central dais), ladies gallery, tallit (prayer shawl), tefillin (phylacteries), kipah (skull-cap), etc.
There are also sections on the history and efficacy of Jewish prayer, women's prayer obligations and the liturgy of their prayer groups. Other chapters include a selection of the laws of mourning and how to observe a yahrzeit (annual memorial observance).
"Rabbi Dr Jeffrey M Cohen's books can now be found in many Jewish homes, here and abroad...Combining sound learning with grace of expression, his works are both substantial and attractive."
(From the Foreword by the late Lord Immanuel Jakobovits)
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