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.
After 50 years guiding major congregations in Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta, Rabbi Goodman continues to inspire and inform with his weekly Torah interpretations from Jerusalem. Ma Nishma draws on his wide secular learning, his abiding love of Torah and a passion for Jewish destiny in the American Diaspora and in Israel to prove that these timeless texts hold profound lessons for us all." Melvin Konner, MD, PhD, professor at Emory university has authored eleven books including The Jewish Body and Unsettled: A n Anthropology of the Jews Rabbi Goodman finds the link between the text of Torah and the story of our lives in each of these lovely and inspiring teachings. My favorite part is his weekly conclusion, often introduce with the words "may we..." I am encouraged each time to become a little better version of what I can be. Rabbi Jack Moline, Rabbi Emeritus of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, VA Arnold Goodman's "Ma Nishma from Jerusalem" is an inspiring combination of wisdom and intellect. If you ever wondered whether the weekly parshiyot could really be relevant to the spiritual, intellectual and emotional challenges of everyday life, read these "touches" of Torah from a master of interpretation will put your mind at ease. Laurie Patton, Durden Professor of Religion, Duke University, and author of Angel's Task: Poems in Biblical Time $19.95 U.S. Rabbi Arnold M. Goodman was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary. During his fifty years in the active Rabbinate he served congregations in Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta. He now lives in Jerusalem.
Many people lead multi faceted lives. Arnold Goldberg is one of these. He is a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, a teacher, a supervisor, an editor, and an author. He was Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, editor of the journal Progress in Self Psychology and is famous for having begun his career as Heinz Kohut's most original student and later his closest colleague. After Kohut died Goldberg finished How Does Analysis Cure? His writings are incredibly wide ranging, his interest in all things psychoanalytic breathtaking as the selections in this book testify. I especially love his work on Behavior Disorders not simply because I was fortunate enough to write for the Case Book he edited on the subject, but because his ideas changed forever my thinking on acting out patients and transformed my clinical results with them. Kohut may have originated the idea of the vertical split in self psychology, but Goldberg has taken the idea to places no other self psychologist has gone.
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