Machzor, Volume 2

Name: Machzor, Volume 2
Author: Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher
ISBN: 9780881232165

Challenge and Change

Edited by Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher

514 Pages6.00 × 9.00 × 1.10 in

Paperback

ISBN: 9780881232165
Published: 1st Jan 2014

$22.95

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The CCAR has just recently developed and published the new Reform machzor, the biggest liturgical project of this generation. Machzor: Challenge and Change, V2 is a comprehensive resource that provides material for communal engagement and study of the machzor. The book includes presentations from scholars and thought leaders on liturgical themes and concepts such as N'ilah, Avodah, Eilah Ezkarah, and High Holy Day Torah portions, as well as machzor-related essays from the CCAR Journal. It also includes discussion questions throughout. A terrific adult-study packet.

Acknowledgments

Preface, Rabbi Elaine Zecher

Opening Questions

Part1. Continuing Conversations about the Machzor

Editor's Note

Traditional Torah Readings Reconsidered Session 1: Akeidah

Traditional Torah Readings Reconsidered Session 2: Nitzavim

Shofar Service

Seder HaAvodah: Its Structure and Contemporary Possibilities

Eilah Ezkarah

Yizkor

N'ilah

Hin'ni: Liturgical and Homiletic Approaches

Part 2. Between Faith and Protest: Bringing Back to Life the Challenging Metaphors in the Machzor

Machzor Presentations from the CCAR Convention, 2013, Long Beach

Discussions and Questions

Biographies of Presenters

Part 3. Related Articles and Poems from CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Summer 2013

Additional DIscussion Questions

Glossary

Suggestions for Further Reading

Innovation in ritual and prayer, profound engagement in social action, leadership, scholarship, and a palpable love of Jewish life are hallmarks of Rabbi Elaine Zecher’s rabbinate. As the senior rabbi of Temple Israel of Boston, she leads the largest congregation in New England, forging close personal relationships within the congregation and the larger community.

Rabbi Zecher is outspoken on matters of justice and liberty, a tireless worker in interfaith partnerships, and an advocate of progressive legislation and policy. She is noted as well for personal warmth, deep humanity, quick wit, and humor. She is an engaging teacher who makes scholarship accessible and engaging.

Active as well in the national Reform Jewish Movement, she was instrumental in developing new prayer books for Shabbat and weekdays, as well as the machzor, which is used on the High Holy Days. Additionally, she served as Vice President for Leadership of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR).

A graduate of Brandeis University, she was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1988. She is married to Dr. David Eisenberg and has three adult children.