Jewish Men Pray: Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources

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"