What You Will See Inside a Synagogue
A colorful, fun-to-read introduction that explains the ways and whys of Jewish worship, faith, and religious life.
What You Will See Inside a Synagogue will:
- Satisfy kids’ curiosity about what goes on in synagogues attended by their friends, broadening awareness of other faiths at an important age when opinions and prejudices can first form.
- Provide Jewish children with a deeper understanding of the practices of their own religious tradition.
- Give children the opportunity to ask questions, making them more active participants.
Colorful full-page photographs set the scene for concise but informative descriptions of what is happening, the objects used, the clergy and laypeople who have specific roles, the spiritual intent of the believers, and more.
The What You Will See Inside… series is designed to show children ages 6–10 the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of traditional houses of worship, liturgical celebrations, and rituals of different world faiths, empowering them to respect and understand their own religious traditions—and those of their friends and neighbors.
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Book details
- Author
- Ron Wolfson, Lawrence Hoffman
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Juvenile Nonfiction › Religion
- Topics
- Judaism · Jewish worship · Jewish religious life · children's religious education · interfaith awareness
- ISBN-13
- 9781594732560
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.