By one of Israel’s most popular spiritual educators, Prepare My Prayer is a “cookbook of prayer,” a unique attempt to develop a dedicated language for the worship of the heart, the language of prayer. This volume offers a variety of concise and practical ‘recipes’ for prayer by a creative and original thinker is a poetic volume aimed at opening the heart in a non-traditional way. For a more sustained analysis of Jewish prayer, pair this work with Rabbi Ezra Bick’s Shemoneh Esrei: Exploring the Fundamentals of Faith through the Amida Prayer. This work looks at the underappreciated depths of the Amida, paying close attention to the words of the Amida and tracing their sources in the Bible to consider the heart of Jewish prayer.

For much of human history, the world was felt to be an enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our control or understanding, or so the story goes. The rise of scientific thinking and mind-body divisions ultimately became a dominating paradigm, in the process leading to a disenchantment with the world as we know it. In God, Human, Animal, Machine, O’Gieblyn tackles the spread of digital metaphor and the rise of technology as forces that elide our understanding, reconsidering the nature of consciousness in thought-provoking ways. All by a former believer, haunted still by questions of her faith. Pair this with Phillip Goff’s Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness for a truly deep dive into consciousness, science, and what we might be finding out about the brain.