Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System - A Prayer-by-Prayer Explanation of the Nature and Meaning of Jewish Worship

Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major movements of American Judaism.

About the author

Arnold S. Rosenberg is an attorney in private practice in San Francisco, California. He grew up a Conservative Jew in Rochester, New York, where he learned much of what he knows about Judaism from Rabbi Abraham J. Karp and Cantor Samuel Rosenbaum. After graduating from Cornell University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he attended Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1976. Mr. Rosenberg spent the next four years as a poverty lawyer in a Mexican barrio in Chicago, Illinois. Following a stint as a labor lawyer in Chicago and New York, he moved to San Francisco, where he and his family have lived since 1983. He has two children, Julian and Nina.

Product details

• Authors: Arnold Rosenberg
• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1997
• EAN: 9781568219714
• ISBN: 978-1-56821-971-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 656 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism