Includes services for weekdays, festivals, and other occasions of public worship. Mishkan T'filah reflects the full diversity of our Movement, including texts for more than a hundred songs.
This volume is for weekdays and festivals only and does not include Shabbat 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
Two-color printing to enhance usability
Introduction Acknowledgments A Note on Style and Usage
Prayers for Weekdays Weekday Evening Weekday Morning Weekday Afternoon Ashrei, Psalm 145 Chatzi Kaddish T’filah Weekday T’filah Mei-ein Sh’moneh Esrei Seder K’riat HaTorah Prayers of Our Community
Prayers for Festivals and Sacred Occasions Kabbalat Panim Candles Kiddush for Festival Evening Festival Evening Festival Morning Festival Afternoon Ashrei, Psalm 145 Chatzi Kaddish T’filah Festival T’filah Seder K’riat HaTorah for Festivals and Atzeret–Simchat Torah Prayers of Our Community Yom HaShoah Yom HaZikaron Yom HaAtzma-ut Liturgical Insertions for Yom HaShoah Hodaah for Yom HaAtzma-ut Hodaah for Chanukah Hodaah for Purim Hodaah Hallel I Hallel II Counting the Omer Waving the Lulav Chanukah Candle Blessings Purim Blessings Yizkor
Aleinu and Kaddish
Blessings for the Home and Synagogue Blessing for a Woman / for a Man Blessing for a Child Kiddush for Festival 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″
