The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices; CLAL's Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals & Blessings
Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 338, [18--includind some advertisements] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, About the Contributors, Preface, and Introduction: Renew the Old, Sanctify the New. Chapters include Everyday Life, Parents and Children, Relationships, Special Moments, Healing, Life and Death, Learning, Leadership and Communal Life, Israel, Tzedakah (Charity), and Holy Days. Also includes How to Use this Book, and Questions You May Have. Irwin Kula (born November 29, 1957) is an American rabbi and author, currently serving as the president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL). In 2008, he was listed as 7th in Newsweek’s “50 most influential rabbis” list. Kula received his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University, B.H.L. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA), and M.A. in Rabbinics and Rabbinic Ordination from the JTSA. Kula is the author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life and a co-editor of The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices: CLAL’s Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals and Blessings. Vanessa L. Ochs (born November 2, 1953) is an American scholar of religion at the University of Virginia, an ordained rabbi and an important figure in the fields of Jewish feminism and Jewish ritual. She is a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University, where she teaches courses in Judaism, the anthropology of religion, and spiritual writing. Ochs' writing was recognized by a Creative Writing Fellowship through the National Endowment for the Arts and she is the winner of a National Jewish Book Award in the category Contemporary Jewish Life. Discover how to make virtually any moment in your day a significant part of a meaningful Jewish life.
Decades of experience by CLAL--The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in connecting spirituality with daily life come together in this one comprehensive handbook. In these pages, you have access to teachings that can help to sanctify almost any moment in your day.
Offering a meditation, a blessing, a profound Jewish teaching, and a ritual for more than one hundred diverse everyday events and holidays, this guide includes sacred practices for:
Lighting Shabbat candles
Blessing your parents
Running a marathon
Visiting the sick
Building a sukkah
Seeing natural wonders
Moving into a new home
Saying goodbye to a beloved pet
Making a shiva call
Traveling ... and much more
Drawing from both traditional and contemporary sources, The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices will show you how to make more holy any moment in your daily life.
Contributors:
Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, PhD * Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard, PhD * Rabbi Daniel Silberman Brenner * Shari Cohen, PhD * David M. Elcott, PhD * Rabbi Niles E. Goldstein * Michael Gottsegen, PhD * Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, PhD * Rabbi Steven Greenberg * Rabbi Brad Hirschfield * Janet R. Kirchheimer * David Kraemer, PhD * Rabbi Jennifer E. Krause * Rabbi Irwin Kula * Rabbi Benay Lappe * Rabbi Natan Margalit * Rabbi David Nelson, PhD * Vanessa L. Ochs, PhD * Rabbi Rachel T. Sabath * Robert Rabinowitz, PhD * Andrew Silow-Carroll * Rabbi Lawrence Troster. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Jewish, Sacred Practices, Shiva, Sukkah, Shabbat, Healing, Relationships, Death, Learning, Parents, Children, Teaching, Guests, Celebrations, Synagogue, Tzedakah, Holy Days, Shofar, Torah, Mishloach Manot, Chametz
ISBN: 1580231527
[Book #80263]
Price: $50.00