World Famous Comics: An Invitation to Shabbat: A Beginner's Guide to Weekly Celebration
An Invitation to Shabbat: A Beginner's Guide to Weekly Celebration
By: Ruth Perelson Publisher: Urj Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Urj Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 88 Publication Date: November 01, 1997
Product Description: A Project of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Department of Education Our invitation to you: Encounter books that will enrich the Shabbat experience for you and your entire family.
Explore Shabbat step-by-step and blessing-by-blessing from candle lighting to Havdalah. Discover the essential elements of tradition along with modern options for enhancing spiritual awareness. Explore the many paths to a satisfying Shabbat celebration through the words of those who began to observe Shabbat as adults. Blessings in Hebrew, transliteration, and English are included, alongside descriptions of rituals, as well as their history and folklore. Rounding out this extraordinary guide are traditional recipes--Ashkenazic and Sephardic--a bibliography, and a CD recording for learning and pleasure that brings to life the music of Shabbat.
Good book, good disc We got this book for our own home Shabbat celebrations. It has all we were looking for and more. The accompanying disc is good as well and has been a big hit with our girls (age 3).
Concise, helpful, and comes with a CD I bought this book because I wanted to not only learn about Shabbat, but I also wanted to learn how to pronounce some of the words typically sung in Shabbat songs. The back of the book has sheet music from several traditional Shabbat songs as well as the transliterated Hebrew words. Unfortunately, the English translations are not included. The book comes with a CD with various soloists singing these songs. I was expecting some really tacky singers, but was pleasantly surprised to find their voices lovely, and the sound quality quite good.
The rest of the book was also very helpful. It's not a particularly deep book about the traditional significance of Shabbat, but more ways to celebrate it and make it a special weekly vacation. The book isn't only written by Ruth Peterson; several different authors have written about Shabbat.
Included also are blessings, a glossary, lists of reference materials, and a list of weekly parashah (Torah reading) and accompanying haftarah (reading from the prophets). A very helpful, but not overwhelming, book for a beginner.
A nice introduction I found this book to be a nice introduction to celebrating the most important of holidays. For those who are rediscovering their Jewish roots, or are looking to Judaism for the first time, Shabbat can seem like a complicated affair. This book can take a lot of the mystery out of the how-to aspects so you can really experience Shabbat. A must-buy for anybody trying to sort out and understand Jewish observance.
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