My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 5 : 'Birkhot Hashachar' (Morning Blessings) Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries
Dr. Marc Zvi Brettleris the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University. He contributed to all volumes of the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and toMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef;All These Vows—Kol Nidre;May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; andWe Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor ofThe Jewish Annotated New TestamentandThe Jewish Study Bible, which won the National Jewish Book Award; co-author ofThe Bible and the Believer; and author ofHow to Read the Jewish Bible, among other books and articles. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio’sFresh Airby Terry Gross.Dr. David Ellensonis president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. Dr. Ellenson was ordained as a rabbi at HUC JIR and received his PhD from Columbia University. His bookAfter Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernitywon the National Jewish Book Award. His most recent book,Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa, was coauthored with Daniel Gordis.Ellen Frankel, LCSW, a member of Congregation Shirat Hayam, is a popular author and speaker on spirituality and wellness. Her work has been featured on TV nationally and inThe Boston Globe, The Jewish Journal North of BostonandThe Jewish Advocate.Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman,PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world-renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism.He has written and edited many books, includingAll the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor, We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet,Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef andAll These Vows—Kol Nidre, the first five volumes in the Prayers of Awe series; the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and he is coeditor ofMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries(all Jewish Lights), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.Rabbi Hoffman is a developer of Synagogue 3000, a transdenominational project designed to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century.Rabbi LawrenceA. Hoffman, PhD, is available to speak on the following topics:A Day of Wine and Moses: The Passover Haggadah and the Seder You Have Always WantedPreparing for the High Holy Days: How to Appreciate the Liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurThe Essence of Jewish Prayer: The Prayer Book in Context and Worship in Our TimeBeyond Ethnicity: The Coming Project for North American Jewish IdentitySynagogue Change: Transforming Synagogues as Spiritual and Moral Centers for the Twenty-First CenturyClick here to contact the author.Rabbi Lawrence Kushneris one of the most widely read authors by people of all faiths on Jewish spiritual life. He is the best-selling author of such books asInvisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary; God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning; Honey from the Rock: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism;The Book of Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alphabet;The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness;The Book of Words: Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk;Eyes Remade for Wonder: A Lawrence Kushner Reader;I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion and other Disguises of the Ego;Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians;The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness;The Way Into Jewish Mystical Tradition; and co-author ofBecause Nothing Looks Like God;How Does God Make Things Happen?;Where Is God?;What Does God Look Like?; andIn God's Hands.He is the Emanu-El Scholar at San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El and an adjunct professor of Jewish mysticism and spirituality at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is available to speak on the following topics:• Jewish Mystical Imagination• Rymanover's Silent Aleph: What Really Happened on Sinai• Zohar on Romance and Revelation• What Makes Kabbalah Kabbalah• Sacred Stories of the Ordinary: When God Makes a Surprise Appearance in Everyday LifeClick here to contact the author.Rabbi Nehemia Polenis professor of Jewish thought at Hebrew College. He is theauthor ofThe Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, theRebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto andThe Rebbe's Daughter, recipient of a NationalJewish Book Award. He is also a contributor to the award-winningMy People'sPrayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries(Jewish Lights).Rabbi Daniel Landesis the director androsh hayeshivahof the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Pardes brings together men and women of all backgrounds to study classical Jewish texts and contemporary Jewish issues in a rigorous, challenging and open-minded environment.Rabbi Landes is also a contributor to the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award andMy People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts,Modern Commentaries,a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef;We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—AshamnuandAl Chet and All These Vows—Kol Nidre (all Jewish Lights).