Naming God

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, has served for more than three decades as professor of liturgy at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is a world - renowned liturgist and holder of the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair in Liturgy, Worship and Ritual. His work combines research in Jewish ritual, worship and spirituality with a passion for the spiritual renewal of contemporary Judaism. His many books, written and edited, include the previous five volumes in the Prayers of Awe series: Who by Fire, Who by Water - Un'taneh Tokef; All These Vows - Kol Nidre; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism - Ashamnu and Al Chet; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism - Yizkor; and All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days. Hoffman also edited the ten - volume series My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and coedited My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (all Jewish Lights). Rabbi Hoffman cofounded and developed Synagogue 2/3000, a transdenominational project to envision and implement the ideal synagogue of the spirit for the twenty - first century. In that capacity, he wrote Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life (Jewish Lights). Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, is available to speak on the following topics: âEUR¢ A Day of Wine and Moses: The Passover Haggadah and the Seder You Have Always Wanted âEUR¢ Preparing for the High Holy Days: How to Appreciate the Liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur âEUR¢ The Essence of Jewish Prayer: The Prayer Book in Context and Worship in Our Time âEUR¢ Beyond Ethnicity: The Coming Project for North American Jewish Identity âEUR¢ Synagogue Change: Transforming Synagogues as Spiritual and Moral Centers for the Twenty - First Century