Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University. He contributed to all volumes of the My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and to My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water-Un'taneh Tokef; All These Vows-Kol Nidre; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-Yizkor; and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism-Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Jewish Study Bible, which won the National Jewish Book Award; co-author of The Bible and the Believer; and author of How to Read the Jewish Bible, among other books and articles. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio's Fresh Air by Terry Gross.

About My People's Prayer Book
Introduction to the Liturgy: The Shape Of The Daily Service
Lawrence A. Hoffman
Blessings and Study: The Jewish Way to Begin a Day
Lawrence A. Hoffman
On Gentiles, Slaves, and Women: The Blessings "Who Did Not Make Me"
A. Historical Survey
Yoel H. Kahn
B. Halakhic Analysis
Daniel Landes
The Halakhah of Waking Up
Daniel Landes
Introduction To The Commentaries: How to Look for Meaning In the Prayers
Lawrence A. Hoffman

The Liturgy
1. Preparation for Prayer
A. Entering the Synagogue: Mah Tovu
B. Putting on the Tallit
C. Putting on T¿fillin
D. Exodus 13:1¿16
E. Adon Olam
F. Yigdal

2. Preliminary Blessings

3. Study and Blessings

4. The Akedah

5. The Sh¿ma

6. Korbanot: (¿Sacrifices¿)
A. Thirteen Principles of Rabbi Ishmael
B. Kaddish D¿rabbanan (¿Rabbis¿ Kaddish¿)

7. Dividing Kaddish
A. Psalm 30
B. Mourner¿s Kaddish

About the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Glossary