Praying in Hard Times: The Soul's Imaginings (12 pk)
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Book details
- Author
- LifeLights
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Miscellaneous print
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice
Religion › Prayer - Topics
- prayer · Jewish spirituality · faith in difficult times · healing and wholeness · pastoral care · grief and doubt · Jewish practice
- ISBN-13
- 9781683366126
About the author
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. His recent books include Encountering God: El Rachum V'chanun—God Merciful and Gracious, Naming God: Avinu Malkeinu—Our Father, Our King and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days.
Hoffman holds the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. He edited the ten-volume My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and coedited My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
When not writing, Hoffman cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a transdenominational project to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty-first century. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism.