Including services for Shabbat and texts for more than a hundred songs, Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement.
This volume is for Shabbat only and does not include weekday and festival liturgy.
This Siddur includes:
Broad selection of readings, including beloved passages from our Reform liturgical tradition and great poetic writings from throughout Jewish history
Faithful, elegant translations
Contemporary, gender-inclusive English
Theological and stylistic diversity
Full transliteration
Extensive commentaries, source notes and usage guides
More than 100 contemporary and traditional song texts
Innovative design in two-page spreads (additional Shabbat services in linear style also included)
Two-color printing to enhance usability
Introduction Acknowledgments A Note on Style and Usage
Prayers for Shabbat Kabbalat Panim Candles Kiddush for Shabbat Evening Welcome Shabbat Songs Kabbalat Shabbat Shabbat Evening I Magein Avot v’Imahot Shabbat Morning I Shabbat Evening II Shabbat Morning II Shabbat Afternoon Seder K’riat HaTorah Prayers of Our Community Liturgical Insertions for Chanukah Hodaah Hallel I Hallel II 268 Counting the Omer Chanukah Candle Blessings
Aleinu and Kaddish
Blessings for the Home and Synagogue Blessing for a Woman / for a Man Blessing for a Child Kiddush for Shabbat Morning HaMotzi and Birkat HaMazon Havdalah
Songs and Hymns
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″
