Israel—A Spiritual Travel Guide (2nd Edition): A Companion for the Modern Jewish Pilgrim
Be spiritually prepared for your journey in Israel.
The only travel guide to Israel that will help you to prepare spiritually for your visit. Combining, in quick reference format, ancient blessings, medieval prayers, biblical references, and modern poetry, it helps today’s pilgrim tap into the deep spiritual meaning of the ancient—and modern—sites of the Holy Land. For each of 25 major tourist destinations—from the Western Wall to Masada to a kibbutz in the Galilee—it gives guidance in sharply focused, four-step sections:
- Anticipation: To read in advance. Information to help orient you in the site’s historical context.
- Approach: To read on the way there. Readings from traditional and modern sources to orient you in the site’s spiritual context.
- Acknowledgment: To read at the site. A prayer or blessing to integrate the experience into your spiritual consciousness.
- Afterthought: Journaling space for writing your own thoughts and impressions.
More than a guidebook: It is a spiritual map of the Holy Land.
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Book details
- Author
- Lawrence Hoffman
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Travel › Middle East › Israel
Religion › Judaism
Travel › Special Interest › Religious - Topics
- Jewish pilgrimage · Israel travel · spiritual journey · Jewish prayer · holy sites · Judaism · Western Wall · biblical history
- ISBN-13
- 9781684429301 (Paperback)9781684429318 (Hardcover)
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.