Invite your students to create their own commentary, questions, poetry, and responses to the prayers in Mishkan T'filah. For b'nai mitzvah students, confirmation class, and youth groups. Some pages will have creative, challenging prompts to stimulate thoughts, and other pages will be entirely blank, allowing users space to explore and reflect. Created by Michelle Shapiro Abraham and Joel Abraham.
Note: Page numbers in this special edition are meant to be consistent with the page numbering of the standard, complete edition of Mishkan T'filah. However, because the Journal Edition does not contain some of the material from the complete edition, there are several jumps in page numbering in this edition.
How Do I Use This Book? How Do I Pray with This Prayerbook? Introduction to the Original Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Style and Usage
Prayers for Weekdays Weekday Evening Weekday Morning Weekday Afternoon Ashrei, Psalm 145 Chatzi Kaddish T’filah Weekday T’filah Mei-ein Sh’moneh Esrei Seder K’riat HaTorah Prayers of Our Community
Prayers for Shabbat Kabbalat Panim Candles Kiddush for Shabbat Evening Welcome Shabbat Songs Kabbalat Shabbat Shabbat Evening I Magein Avot v’Imahot Shabbat Morning I Shabbat Afternoon Seder K’riat HaTorah Prayers of Our Community
Aleinu and Kaddish
Blessings for the Home and Synagogue Blessing for a Woman / for a Man Blessing for a Child Kiddush for Shabbat Morning Kiddush for Festival Morning HaMotzi and Birkat HaMazon Havdalah
Songs and Hymns
Permissions Source Citations
Rabbi Joel Abraham served as Rabbi of Temple Sholom from 1999 to 2025, guiding the Temple in its move from Plainfield, through its time in the wilderness in Fanwood, to its new location in Scotch Plains. During his tenure, he served as a leader in social and racial justice, in civic community, and in interfaith relations.
Before becoming Rabbi at Temple Sholom in 1999, he served pulpits in California, Nevada, Virginia, and West Virginia. Rabbi Abraham is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis; and the Past President (and current Secretary) of the New Jersey-West Hudson Valley Association of Reform Rabbis; mazkir of the NFTY-GER Clergy team; member of the Central New Jersey Va'ad haRabbanim and the Steering Committee of the MetroWest Rabbis' Roundtable; a member of the steering committee for the Union County Interfaith Coordinating Committee; (twice) past president of the Scotch Plains/Fanwood Ministerium; he is a co-founder and Board member of Social Justice Matters, and Board Secretary of Faith in New Jersey, and is fiercely committed to increasing justice in our turbulent world. In 2019, he was the joint recipient of the Union County Human Relations Commission's Unit Award for Achievement for the work of Social Justice Matters, and was awarded the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Martin Luther King Day of Service award in 2022.
Rabbi Abraham lives in Fanwood with his spouse, Michelle Shapiro Abraham, DRJE, the Executive Director of JBI Library. They have two children, Avital and Ezri.
CCAR Press has created a Mishkan T’filah bookplate template for congregations and individuals to customize and print. Please follow the instructions:
1. Download the template page as a Word document
2. Add your dedication
3. Print using Avery labels number 5168, 3 1/2″ x 5″
