This version of Mishkan T'filah has been adapted to allow for the more traditional practices of the Progressive communities in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, but can readily be used in all English-speaking regions of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Specifically, this version of Mishkan T'filah reflects a different approach to seasonal references. It includes longer versions of certain prayers in accordance with regional customs, extended annotations and page notes, a variety of new readings and prayers, as well as various new indexes to navigate the book, including an index of all the English readings by category. Even for the communities in North America, this version of Mishkan T'filah is a valuable reference and would be a welcome addition to the bookcase of every rabbi, cantor, and layperson.
Introduction and Acknowledgments — Original Edition Introduction and Acknowledgments — World Union Edition Committees Notes on Style and Usage
Weekdays Evening Service Morning Service Afternoon Service Reading the Torah / K’riat HaTorah
Shabbat Kindling Lights / Kabbalat Panim Kiddush for Shabbat Evening Shabbat Songs Welcoming Service / Kabbalat Shabbat Evening Service I Morning Service I Evening Service II Morning Service II Afternoon Service Reading the Torah / K’riat HaTorah
Festivals and Sacred Occasions Kindling Lights / Kabbalat Panim Kiddush for Festival Evening Evening Service Morning Service Afternoon Service Reading the Torah / K’riat HaTorah Holocaust Memorial Day / Yom HaShoah Israeli Memorial Day / Yom HaZikaron Israeli Independence Day / Yom HaAtzma-ut Liturgical Insertions for Hodaah Hallel I (brief excerpt) Hallel II (fuller version) Counting the Omer Waving the Lulav Kindling the Chanukah Lights Purim Blessings for Megillah Yizkor and House of Mourning
Aleinu and Kaddish Aleinu Meditations before Kaddish Mourner’s Kaddish
For the Home and Synagogue In the Sukkah Personal Prayers Kiddush for Shabbat Morning Kiddush for Festival Morning Before and After a Meal Ending Shabbat or Festival / Havdalah Chanukat Habayit / Dedication of a Home Shiva or Yahrzeit Candle Meetings The Decalogue
Psalms, Hymns and Songs Table of Psalms Hymns / Piyutim Songs for the Days of Awe for the Three Pilgrim Festivals for Chanukah for Tu Bishvat for Purim of Memory for Meditation and Healing
Indexes Permissions Source Citations
Ordained in 1981, Rabbi Elyse Frishman served as Rabbi of The Reform Temple of Suffern (NY) for 14 years, and then as Senior Rabbi of The Barnert Temple (Franklin Lakes, NJ) for 22 years, retiring in 2017. Her rabbinate focused on the shaping of sacred community grounded in adult study, spiritual life, and service.
She currently serves as faculty for The Wexner Foundation, an organization that focuses on leadership development in the Jewish communities of North America and Israel.
Rabbi Frishman is nationally recognized for her work transforming Reform Jewish worship, and as a writer and editor of liturgy. She edited the Reform movement’s prayerbook, Mishkan T’filah (CCAR Press, 2007), as well as Haneirot Halalu (CCAR Press, 2009) and Blessings for the Table (CCAR Press, 1997). She was identified as the second most influential American Jew in The Forward newspaper’s “Top Fifty Jews” list of 2007.
Married to Rabbi Daniel Freelander, their family includes Adam and Julie, Jonah and Sarah, Devra, z”l, and granddaughter Aviva.
CCAR Press has created a Mishkan T’filah bookplate template for congregations and individuals to customize and print. Please follow the instructions:
1. Download the template page as a Word document
2. Add your dedication
3. Print using Avery labels number 5168, 3 1/2″ x 5″
