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Thank You, God!: A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers (Shabbat)

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As the foreward of this book says, daily Jewish prayers instill values in children. When we say a prayer before we eat, children understand that it's important to be thankful for what we have, including food on the table. When we pray before going to sleep for our safety, kids learn to be thankful for their lives. The bottom line: we love this book. It has prayers for greeting the new day, and bedtime prayers. When our beloved pet cat passed away this week, we opened the book to the prayer for mourners. By coincidence, the page included an illustration of an elderly woman with a cat! The words and illustrations are right on target for children, and parents will appreciate it, too. I highly recommend this book, and plan to buy it as baby gifts for family and friends.

When our first child was five, she asked us for her very own prayer book. This was the one we chose, and it has been wonderful both for her and her brother.

The book is only 25 pages, but it is filled with the most important prayers in the Jewish liturgy, beginning, after the prayer thanking God for a good night's sleep, with the Shema, the watchwords of the Jewish faith. As the English text explains, "Every morning and every night when we say the Shema, we are saying 'God is everywhere and God is One'."

These pages also include the beginning of the Veyahavta, which states, "We will love God with all our hearts, with all our souls and with all our might."

There are prayers for before and after meals, for lighting the Shabbat candles and blessing the Sabbath wine, and for saying good bye to Shabbat with the Havdalah blessings, with which the Jewish people welcome a new week.

The book also includes the most important blessings for four of the major holidays, Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Chanukah.

Children are also introduced to prayers in thanks for nature, for trees, prayers for good health, prayers for escaping from danger or good health, for peace, and to remember those who have died. The book ends with the traditional Jewish benediction, which I noticed at a Catholic service some years ago, is also a Christian tradition--

"May God bless you and keep you.
May God watch over you in kindness.
May God grant you a life of good health, joy and peace."

--Alyssa A. Lappen

My husband was raised observant. I still have trouble with reading Hebrew and I wanted a book to help me with some morning and evening rituals. My one complaint is that they should have used the extended version of the Shema

When our daughter began attending a Jewish day school, the panic set in. What would I do when my child came home from school on Friday night expecting to have Shabbat? The chicken I could cook, but the prayer over the candles? I got on Amazon and ordered everything Judaic I could find. This little book was about half-way through the pile of books and DVDs I'd ordered and I wish it had been the first. The book is small, beautifully illustrated, and serves like a Jewish "Top Ten" list of prayers. It includes prayers written in Hebrew characters, transliteration, and English translations. Perfect! Included for each prayer is a brief (1 or 2 sentence) explaination of what the prayer is for and when it is or is not said. Genius!

Thank You, God!: A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers (Shabbat) I purchased this book for my daughter when she was around 3 years old and she woke up every morning and went to bed every evening with the book - she just loved it. She is now in college and wanted to bring the book with her as a memory from home. When we couldn't locate it I purchased it again for her to take to school. I don't think you can have a better review than that for a book. One that took her through her young childhood and had such an impact on her she remembered it and wanted it with her at college.

THANK YOU, GOD! An outstanding book for jewish children to learn that prayer is a part of jewish life. It is a book that every parent or grandparent should put into the child's library.

This beautifully illustrated book contains more than a dozen Jewish prayers for a variety of special occasions. The prayers are printed in Hebrew, phonetics, and English. It is an excellent resource for adults and children alike.

As an interfaith "post nuclear" family, we often need some help with Jewish things. This is a fantastic book with both traditional prayers and simplified versions of elaborate prayers. When I showed it to our Rabbi she said she'd like to get copies for our parent group. You can't ask for much higher praise than that!

I love the fact that the prayers are divided into sections, day, night, meal, shabbat, etc and includes Hebrew, Transcription and English!
Simple, but meaningful. I would recommend this book to all who want children and youth to learn prayers in a fun and artistic manner.
I will continue to buy this book as a gift for many children to come.

The title of the book, caught my eye because my 7 year old son, is always saying just that "Thank you G-d" so it was appropriate to buy it for him, he and I have read together and he reads on his own, it is a must have in a child's library! Thanks Amazon.Com

Emma Snipes