Publisher's Synopsis
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer-to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men-diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions-have convened in this collection to offer contemporary, compelling and personal prayers. The words published here are not the recitation of established liturgies, but the direct address of today's Jewish men to ha-Shomea Tefilla, the Ancient One who has always heard, and who remains eager to receive, the prayers of our hearts."
-from the Foreword by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL
This collection of prayers celebrates the variety of ways Jewish men engage in personal dialogue with God-with words of praise, petition, joy, gratitude, wonder and even anger-from the ancient world up to our own day.
Drawn from mystical, traditional, biblical, Talmudic, Hasidic and modern sources, these prayers will help you deepen your relationship with God and help guide your journey of self-discovery, healing and spiritual awareness. Together they provide a powerful and creative expression of Jewish men's inner lives, and the always revealing, sometimes painful, sometimes joyous-and often even practical-practice that prayer can be.
Jewish Men Pray will challenge your preconceived ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of prayerful expression, new paths for finding the sacred in the ordinary and new possibilities for understanding the Jewish relationship with the Divine. This is a book to treasure and to share.
Contributors:
Israel Abrahams Aharon of Karlin Daniel S. Alexander Alexandri (third century CE) Bezalel Aloni Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL Rabbi Samuel Barth Hillel Bavli (1893-1961) Shye Ben-Tzur Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) Sheldon H. Blank (1896-1989) Ben Zion Bokser (1907-1984) Harold Braunstein Daniel S. Brenner Eliezer Bugatin Shlomo Carlebach (1925-1994) Avraham Chalfi (1904-1980) Rabbi Howard Cooper Rabbi Menachem Creditor Abraham Danziger (1748-1820) Harry K. Danziger Elazar (end of first century CE) Elimelech of Lizhensk (1717-1787) Dov Peretz Elkins Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) Morley T. Feinstein Edward Feld Adam D. Fisher Ira Flax Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) Elihu Gevirtz Jeffrey Goldwasser James Stone Goodman Rabbi Arthur Green Sidney Greenberg (1917-2003) Judah HaLevi (1075-1141) Rabbi Jules Harlow Rabbi Shai Held Rabbi Hayim Herring Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Lawrence A. Hoffman Rabbi David A. Ingber Rabbi Ben Kamin Yehuda Karni (1884-1949) Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes Eliahu J. Klein Cantor Jeffrey Klepper Rabbi Michael Knopf Harold Kohn Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) Rabbi Andy Koren Rabbi Cary Kozberg Rabbi Elliot Kukla Rabbi Irwin Kula Harold S. Kushner Rabbi Lawrence Kushner Rabbi Robert N. Levine Rabbi Stan Levy Immanuel Lubliner (1923-1997) Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) Mar the son of Rabina (fourth century) Rabbi Craig Marantz Danny Maseng Daniel C. Matt Hershel Jonah Matt (1922-1987) Rabbi Ralph D. Mecklenburger Andrew Meit Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler Jay Michaelson Rabbi James L. Mirel Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) Louis Newman Dan Nichols Reb Noson (1780-1844) Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky Rabbi Jesse Olitzky Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky Natan Ophir (Offenbacher) Bachya ibn Pakuda (eleventh century) Daniel F. Polish Andrew Ramer Avrom Reyzen (1876-1953) Haim O. Rechnitzer Rabbi Jack Riemer Rabbi Albert Ringer Rabbi Brant Rosen James B. Rosenberg Joel Rosenberg Robert Saks Jeffrey Salkin Rabbi Neil Sandler Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Rabbi Robert Scheinberg Harold M. Schulweis Rabbi Arthur Segal Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro Rabbi Rick Sherwin Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812) Yaakov David Shulman Danny Siegel Rifat Sonsino Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz Chaim Stern (1930-2001) Rabbi Arnold Stiebel Rabbi Warren Stone Rabbi Neil A. Tow Roy A. Walter Simkha Y. Weintraub Rabbi David Wolpe Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1809) Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942) Rabbi Reuben Zellman Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel Rabbi Shawn Zevit Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman Rabbi Mishael Zion Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin
