Pathway to Prayer – Shemoneh Esray and Musaf for Rosh Chodesh

description of book A translation and explanation of the Shemoneh Esray and Musaf for Rosh Chodesh. Rabbi Mayer Birnbaum is a scholar of tefillah and mashgiach of a major yeshivah. In this splendidly useful phrase-by-phrase work, he combines his scholarship and experience to shed light on the prayers that matter enormously to most people: the Shemoneh Esrai and Musaf prayers of Rosh Chodesh. Rabbi Birnbaum combs the major commentators and adds his own knowledge and sensitivity to produce a volume that belongs alongside every machzor (prayer book). It is slim, but packed with information, inspiration, background — and the ideas and intent that every serious Jew wants to pour into his prayers. It is rare indeed to find an English-language volume that offers such a combination of clarity and depth, authoritatively presented in a down to earth manner. Rabbi Birnbaum is both a thinker and a teacher, and both those qualities are beautifully displayed in this work. Not only does he offer invaluable ideas, he is practiced in presenting them.  The book includes 50 suggestions about how to concentrate during prayer and how to pray.