Around the Family Table: A Comprehensive Bencher and Companion for Shabbat and Festival Meals and Other Family Occasions with Insights and Comm

by Shlomo Riskin and RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN

Book Overview

Intended to serve as a guide for meaningful expressions of the Jewish experience at home, this practical and inspiring book of devotion and prayer includes blessings and songs celebrating the entire year of Jewish festivals and Sabbaths in Hebrew, with English instructions and translations. From blessings for Hanukkah candle lightings to birth celebrations for boys and girls, marriage ceremonies, and dedications of new homes, the book offers traditional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9657108616
• ISBN13: 9789657108611
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Urim Publications
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Around the Family Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jewish Home

Brilliant!!! Rabbi Shlomo Riskin shares his insights of Judaism's meaningful and humane family rituals with the reader.

Shabbat company

This has been a wonderful addition to Shabbat's in our home. It is full of insight and wisdom. We enjoy using this as part of our family Shabbat Celebrations.

Songs and prayers for the Family Table

This collection of songs and prayers for the Jewish home is collected and annotated by one of the great Jewish teachers of our day, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin the communal Rabbi of Efrat. Rabbi Riskin's teachings about the importance of the Jewish family table in Jewish life are also presented in his very moving and special 'Haggadah'. This collection should add to the 'Oneg' around the Shabbat table.

A truly enriching work

Rabbi Riskin is one of the most important and dynamic Jewish teachers and leaders of our generation. He is among other things one of the founders of the community of Efrat in Israel. I have for some years now used his outstanding Haggadah at our Pesach table. In this present work as with the Haggadah he provides explanations and commentary which deepen and enrich the experience of celebrating around the family table. A truly enriching work.