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Though Jews gather to worship, each is responsible to pray for herself or himself. But here I am, charged by this community to 'lead' their service. How can I both fulfill my office and step aside to give the individuals their prayer space? This book begins when service leaders pause to review what they are about to do and how they are going to do it. It is a guide designed to help any service leader, professional clergy or lay leader, conduct services that foster spiritual engagement among Jews at all levels of observance. In it, you will find an extensive catalogue of practical, useful techniques to enhance Shabbat and holiday services and services for life cycle events, including bar mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals. The book also includes insights into what it means to be a prayer leader and into the dynamics of traditional services.

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Trained as a classical singer, invested as a cantor, and ordained as a rabbi, Robert Freedman has had extensive experience with congregations of all kinds, large to small, formal to casual, traditional to creative. Currently the cantor at Society Hill Synagogue in Philadelphia, Pa., he previously served as rabbi at Israel Congregation of Manchester, Vt., and as cantor at the Jewish Center of Princeton, N.J.

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