Touched By A Prayer Volume 1

In Touched By A Prayer, world-acclaimed storyteller Rabbi Yechiel Spero provides an escorted tour through the passageways of tefillah, Jewish prayer.

This book is chock-full-of stories and insights that will transform the way you pray.

Each of its 40 chapters includes an insightful thought, followed by an inspiring story rendered in Rabbi Spero’s signature style.

Through its pages, we will come to appreciate how tefillah can transport and completely transform us. And we will learn that tefillah is dynamic — as we utter its words, they offer us guidance, wisdom, comfort and assurance.

Its approach will speak to everyone — from someone new to Jewish prayer to a seasoned Torah scholar. And educators and parents will find this delightful book the perfect resource for making prayer meaningful and inspiration to children.

This first volume of Rabbi Spero’s treatment of the prayers examines the start of the morning prayer, from the morning blessings, birchos hashachar, and birchos haTorah, korbanos, pesukei dezimrah and Yishtabach.

Touched By A Prayer Volume 2

Sometimes we lift our eyes to Heaven in deep, sincere prayer. Sometimes we recite each word of our tefillah with awe, reverence, and sincerity. But, sadly, sometimes we don’t.

Touched by a Prayer 2 will surely help upgrade the quality and the beauty of the tefillos of those of us who struggle to invest our daily prayers with more meaning. Rabbi Yechiel Spero has already touched our hearts and minds with his inimitable Touched by a Story series. His bestselling book, Touched by a Prayer, brought a new dimension to his work, and to our lives, by combining insightful and fascinating essays on the daily prayers with stories that illustrate the major themes of the prayer. Rabbi Spero touched our souls in ways only a master educator, storyteller, and writer could.

In Touched by a Prayer 2 Rabbi Spero continues elevating our prayers to a new, higher level while at the same time deepening our understanding of them. Beginning with the blessing of Yotzer Ohr and continuing to the end ofShacharis, the Morning Service, the essays and stories of this book show us the meaning and significance of the words we recite each day. We will understand how Shema can be the Jewish people’s “mission statement,” and develop a new perspective on each of the blessings of Shemoneh Esrei, the centerpiece of our prayers. And, of course, at the same time we will read inspiring stories that take us from a Chassidic Rebbe’s courtyard to a Cleveland bakery, from a Moscow cafe to an oncology ward in a Seattle hospital. This is a book filled with heartwarming stories that will touch our hearts, our minds — and most assuredly, our prayers.

Touched by a Prayer 2 is a must-have for teachers looking to ignite a fire in their students – or for anyone searching to find Hashem as their constant companion. And isn’t that all of us?