Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God history and tradition through the heritage of prayer. The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul. Framed with beautifully designed Talmudstyle pages commentaries from many of todays most respected Jewish scholars from all movements of Judaism examine Shabbat at home from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians as well as feminist halakhic Talmudic linguistic biblical Chasidic mystical and historical perspectives. My Peoples Prayer Book is a momentous multivolume series that opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book the Siddur as a spiritual resource. Commentaries by respected teachers from all perspectives of the Jewish world provide the spiritual messages that make up the Siddur. Sometimes awestriking sometimes surprising but always deeply spiritual My Peoples Prayer Book is a gateway to the riches that the heritage of prayer offers us in our worship and in our lives. The seventh volume celebrates Shabbat as a central family ritual tracing the development of this loosely structured liturgy from early prayer books that draw on the classical rabbinic era through medieval Jewish practice and the influence of Lurianic mysticism. Pausing to explore the key moments that mark this sacred timeErev Shabbat with Kiddush Kiddusha Rabbah and Motsaei Shabbat with HavdalahShabbat at Home captures the joy of this holy days prayers blessings and zmirot table songs emphasizing the renewal of home liturgy in Jewish life and reinforcing the importance of Shabbat in the Jewish conception of time. Vol. 7Shabbat at Home features the traditional Hebrew text with a new translation that lets people know exa