Each month, Rabbi Julie invites the Community to read a single book and then gather to discuss it.

In December we will be discussing Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi with Joel Segel
Forward by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Experience the living taste of prayer in your heart, the deep and gentle glow of prayer in your soul.

"Many who live their lives as Jews, even many who pray every day, live on a wrapped and refrigerated version of prayer. We go to synagogue dutifully enough. We rise when we should rise, sit when we should sit. We read and sing along with the cantor and answer 'Amen' in all the right places. We may even rattle through the prayers with ease. We sacrifice vitality for shelf-life, and the neshameh, the Jewish soul, can taste the difference."

—from the Introduction

This fresh approach to prayer is for all who wish to appreciate the power of prayer's poetry and song, jump into its ceremonies and rituals, and join the age-old conversation that Jews have had with God. Reb Zalman, one of the most important Jewish spiritual teachers in contemporary American Judaism, offers you new ways to pray, new channels for communicating with God and new opportunities to open your heart to God’s response.

Books read over the past include:

• Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There) by Sarah Hurwitz

• The Jew in the Lotus by Roger Kamenetz