Cooper, David A. The Handbook of Jewish Meditation Practices: A Guide for Enriching the Sabbath and Other Days of Your Life. Jewish Lights, 2000.
A work exploring meditation as a Jewish practice with roots in ancient customs, texts, and liturgies.
Falk, Marcia. The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath and the New Moon Festival. Harper, 1996.
A collection of Jewish blessings from a feminist perspective; original prayers and translations into English of poems written by Jewish women in Hebrew and Yiddish, intended as alternatives to the patriarchal nature of traditional Jewish prayers.
Hammer, Reuven A. Entering Jewish Prayer: A Guide to Personal Devotion and the Worship Service. Schocken Books, 1994.
A scholarly and sensitive introduction to Jewish prayer and survey of the traditional liturgy.
Hoffman, Lawrence A. The Way into Jewish Prayer. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000.
An engaging and informative first look at Jewish prayer.
Hoffman, Lawrence A. My People’s Prayer Book. Jewish Lights Publishing, beginning 1997.
This multi-volume work-in-progress brings together commentary on the classical liturgy by scholars from many disciplines (Bible, history, language, and law) and ideologies; it is ideal to consult more than one edition of the Jewish prayer book in conjunction with this book.
Piercy, Marge. The Art of Blessing the Day. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Contains beautiful liturgical poetry, some on Sabbath themes.
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