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Shabbat Seder Booklet of Blessings and Songs

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This booklet is a companion to Wolfson's thicker volume, "The Shabbat Seder (Art of Jewish Living)" (also available at Amazon).

It leaves out the information, just providing the text and instructions for enacting the beautiful rituals around the family's weekly Shabbat dinner. For anyone who's attended a Passover Seder, it will seem familiar -- it's kind of like a Haggadah for the Shabbat meal.

I wouldn't recommend buying this on its own, but most people who begin having Shabbat meals will sooner or later want to share the experience with others. This book is priced low enough that you can buy a few copies and put them out for guests or newcomers to your own Shabbat table.

Like Wolfson's other book, the booklet version includes Hebrew text, English translations, and "transliterations" -- phonetic text of all blessings and prayers, so those who do not yet read Hebrew can follow allow. Very concise and accessible!

I was saying these prayers in Hebrew by rote on Friday nights. The English translations are so good, I've switched to English for the time being, reading the translations out of this little booklet. I really love this one.