Daven Your Age: An Adult Journey Through the Daily Prayer Service (Paperback)

from InsightsintoBooks

This is a good look at the act of prayer from a jewish perspective. I really enjoyed it. I think those interested in bringing more soul to their everyday prayers will enjoy this book.

from icadams

Prayer can often be superficial. It can simply be a habit we do on a regular basis, a matter of tradition and nothing more. Rabbi Grunstein wants us to go deeper into our daily prayer, to make it mean something beyond a blind recitation of words without meaning. Rabbi Grunstein wants us to stop p...

from BettyTaylor56

The premise of this book is to teach us about Jewish prayer beyond how we learned to pray as a child. Most people stop learning about "how to pray" once they complete their bar/bat mitzvah. For the adult Jews then this results in praying "in a language they don't know, in a place they don't want ...

from davemac

My daughter recently passed on to me a copy of The Prayer Book. I found it very interesting and thought-provoking, but also confusing. Not being Jewish, I was not at all familiar with the Jewish practice of Daily Prayer. This book, Daven Your Age, helped me understand both the content and purpose...

from singerji

Most Jews learn prayers by rote, as part of Hebrew school. However, rote memorization without real understanding of what the prayers mean and how they relate to one's adult life can lead to many Jews falling away from the synagogue as they grow older. Rabbi Grunstein attempts to give understandin...