Phonetic transliterated Hebrew Prayer book for Reform Evening Service

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E. Linker
Hebrew Prayers Learning Series

Reform Study Guide for the
Friday Evening Shabbat Service

Exclusive HPLS Triple-Tier format has the Hebrew word in the middle, a phonetic transliteration below the Hebrew word, and a literal English translation above the Hebrew word.

All Hebrew Prayers Learning Series (HPLS) publications are for Orthodox and Conservative services except for the HPLS Shabbat Study Guide. Prepared for Temple Beth El, it is the only HPLS publication written specifically for the Reform Service.

The preface to the Study Guide was written Jeffery A. Freedman. I have quoted it in its entirety because he so aptly explains the benefits of the HPLS siddurim:

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Preface to the Study Guide By Jeffery A. Freedman

To My Adult Beginning Hebrew Students:

I have been searching for years to find the "right" presentation of materials to help in teaching this class. Adults tend to have different learning and memory wiring in their brains than do children; so it's necessary to format the teaching of this class differently. Children work better with repetition: the bah bah bah that you may have heard from your young ones after Hebrew School. In my 15 years of teaching experience - at least with Hebrew - adults favor pictures (pneumonics) where they can form basic relationships between the letters and the sound

My wife has struggled for years with "squiggles," as she calls them in reference to the Hebrew language. She sees the letters and vowels, and recognizes the sounds of them; but cannot associate written word to its meaning. Her struggle has provided me with the impetus to find a better way to teach Hebrew

For several years, I have been acquiring "interlinear" Hebrew/English texts: Siddurim, Psalms, Haggadot and other prayer-oriented books. These texts provide each line of Hebrew with word-for-word English translation. I gradually incorporated portions of these texts in my Hebrew classes with good success. However, one crucial aspect has been missing from a teaching standpoint: transliteration. We adults love to see a word in Hebrew and how it sounds in English; just look at the number of people who are reading from the back of the prayer book on Friday nights!

Some time ago I ran across a set of teaching guides produced by Mr. F. Ephraim Linker of Flushing, New York. To my excitement, the guides include Hebrew, English translation and transliteration. The critical test came when we took the Shabbat Evening Volume 4 to services; where my wife was able to follow the entire service - and actually understood what she was reading

The original guides are copywritten; and it is certainly not my intention to violate the law by reproducing parts of them. Accordingly, Mr. Linker and I have edited his original documents to create this primer as a teaching tool for you. I mention parts because the six volumes are designed for Chasidic observance - both Ashkenazic and Sephardic. Students of Temple Beth El may not feel comfortable "reading between the lines." So I have included those prayers, or portions of prayers commonly recited during our Shabbat Evening Service. The textbook you are reading will only be used in this class; and not distributed to the general Congregation

Ethically I feel it is important to mention that when you purchase this primer for use in my class, you will be paying for paper and reproduction costs only. I'm sure Mr. Linker would not turn away a donation for his intellectual contributions to this work (P. O. Box 670723, Flushing, NY 11367-0723). You may also visit his website at
http://www.HebrewPrayersLearningSeries.com.

I welcome your comments on this extracted version of the guide, and hope that it provides you the foundation to build on your study of the Hebrew language through further classes and seminars.

B'Shalom

Jeffrey A. Freedman
Tacoma, WA
August, 2005

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