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Title: Seven Prayers That Can Change Your Life by Leonard Felder ISBN: 0-7407-1895-9 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great insights for living a more meaningful life
Comment: I liked this book because it was an unthreatening and insightful introduction to prayer. No one ever talks much about prayer, at least not the daily kind of prayer one might do in the morning, before meals, and at night. This book explains how to do it from a Jewish perspective, and makes a strong case for the benefits of prayer to a person's life. Since reading this book, I've tried to say a prayer before eating - it's great because it slows down my eating and adds some holiness to my day. If you're looking for a way to focus some of that nervous energy we all generate to something larger and wiser than yourself, this book will help you start.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ten stars. Utterly wonderful and life changing
Comment: This is simply one of the most powerful and enjoyable books on prayer I have ever read.
The prayers are wonderful because they have been a part of the Jewish liturgy for centuries and because included with each prayer is a translation a discussion and suggestion for their useful applications.
Here is an illustration from the first chapter titled A Prayer to Help You Start Each Morning with a Much Better Frane if Mind:
"Modeh ani (men) I am so thankful
Modah ani(women)
I'fanekah in front of You,
melekh khai v'kayam Ruling Force of life and existence
she'hekhe-zarta be Who restores and renews
nishmatee b'khemla my soul with compassion
rabbah emunatekha You are dependable beyond measure
At six A M on and oldies station, the youthful 1970's voice of Carole King (born Carole Klein in NYC) floats out of my clock-radio and creeps into the auditory passages of my sleeping brain. She sings "My lie has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue..." These lyrics about appreciating the underlying weave of correctness in a hectic life, nudge me out of a dream. It's time to wake up. But my eyes are still closed, and my body pleads for another half hour of sleep......I oove music and the memories it can stir up. But I need to get going and start the day. I switch off the radio. For a moment there is silence in the bedroom as my eyes slowly begin to let in a few rays of early morning light. In Judaism there are teachings that say how you deal with this half-awake moment can have an enormous impact on how your day will feel and how it will turn out. There is a traditional prayer recited first thing in the morning, when your eyes are not yet fully open and your conscience hovers between the unseen and the visible worlds".
The author then continues on with series of questions. In this chapter the questions are How do you want to start your day? What do you believe it means to have a soul? When this prayer talks of G-d's dependability does it make you wonder about unanswered prayer?
It really is a wonderful book that I would recommend to others and one I will be giving as a gift to those I love. Simply a life changing and life enhancing book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reclaiming Jewish Prayer
Comment: When I picked up this book, I expected not to like it. It was, after all, exploring tradional Jewish prayers, so I expected it to be patriarchal and devoid of spirit. Instead, I have found a way to say these old prayers with new understanding.
Each chapter offers an everyday situation, and a traditional prayer to help one find the holiness in that moment. The reader is encouraged to think deeply about the words of the prayer, to question, to wrestle with it, to learn the roots of the words and think about all the different possible meanings.
Felder discusses the wisdom of the prayers, of the rabbis, in terms of our psychological needs, and much of his argument is convincing. Each chapter ends with the opportunity to pray in your own words, from the heart, so that each prayer is new.
Through reading this book, the Shema has opened up to me as an opportunity to affirm both the boundlessness and the indwellingness of G-d, rather than being an affirmation of G-d's maleness (Lord of the Universe.) That is what I hope for in any book - that it will nourish my mind and spirit.
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Title: The Bedside Torah : Wisdom, Visions, and Dreams by Bradley Shavit Artson, Miriyam Glazer ISBN: 0737305878 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Talking to God : Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration by Naomi Levy ISBN: 0375409823 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices: Clal's Guide to Everyday & Holiday Rituals & Blessings by Irwin Kula, Vanessa L. Ochs ISBN: 1580231527 Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning by Jack Riemer, Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0815607334 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Lord Is My Shepherd : Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm by Harold S. Kushner ISBN: 1400040566 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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