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Gates of Prayer for Shabbat and Weekdays (Hebrew): Gender-Inclusive Edition-Hebrew opening

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This is a perfect and lovely little prayer book to take with you, includes a wide variety of prayers and occasions. Includes weekday evening, morning and an afternoon after giving three Shabbat services. A Torah service. Kiddush, Havadalh, Halel, Chanukah, Purim, etc.

Major prayers are transliterated many prayers in Hebrew script with English have other lovely alternative English prayers.

Prayers are traditional and modern, ancient and new, reflective, lovely, highly recommended! If you are looking for an easy personal prayer book you can take with you anywhere, this is for you!

Shalom! :)

This book is really pretty lame. It has virtually no choice of services, the so-called "translations" (actually cheesy semi-poetic synopses) try so hard to be politically correct that they virtually lose all meaning, and the transliterations are virtually unintelligible. (In my experience, even the poorest hebrew-readers have an easier time following the Hebrew text than trying to puzzle out the choppy and unnatural latin-alphabet version. You'd probably do better to just attend services often enough to memorize the hebrew.) I would strongly encourage you to lobby your synagogue board to invest in the full-length siddur, and certainly don't buy this for your own personal use.