Chaim Raphael, ‘A Jewish Book of Common Prayer’

Originally published in the Jewish Quarterly, 34.4 (128) (1987), pp. 63-4. A JEWISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: THE SABBATH EVENING SERVICE WITH COMMENTARY by Chaim Raphael (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986, £10.95). Like Chaim Raphael’s widely-used A Feast of History, on the Passover Haggadah, this book is in two parts. First, the Hebrew text of the…