P'nei Adonai resources for walking in the presence of God

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Liturgically Guided Prayer and Sharing

Small Service

This is currently the prayerbook we use most. It uses a minimum of liturgy to lead people in a prayer gathering according to the philosophy of sharing and prayer discussed in the Yirat Adonai essays.

Using this prayerbook requires 60 to 90 minutes, and can be a meaningful foundation for weekday prayer meetings, Erev Shabbat home fellowships, Havdalah celebrations, or even a time of "warm up" prayer before a full service begins.

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Full Service

From Pesach 2003 until Shavuot 2007 P'nei Adonai was a distinct Messianic Jewish congregation. During that time we developed our own morning Shabbat service prayerbook, now archived here.

This prayerbook is similar to the smaller one above, but it uses a bit more Jewish liturgy to create a longer service with the flavor of Messianic Jewish culture. It is still skimpy on liturgy compared to Rabbinic Judaism, but unlike the smaller prayerbook retains all of the most important traditional Jewish prayers.

Using this prayerbook requires two to three hours. It can be used by a new Messianic Jewish congregation that is starting out and needing free resources; pieces of it may be useful even to established Messianic Jewish congregations.

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Holiday Books

Machzor

This is the prayerbook we used as a congregation for our 2006 High Holy Day services. It contains the prayers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and makes use of many thought-provoking quotations from Jewish sages to help people grow in an understanding of teshuvah.

Unlike the above prayerbooks it does not explicitly use our philosophy of sharing and prayer discussed in the Yirat Adonai essays. We just knew to interrupt when God's Spirit told us to share something or ask the group to pray about something.

Using this prayerbook requires about three hours. As with our Shabbat prayerbook it can be used by a new Messianic Jewish congregation that is starting out and needing free resources and pieces (such as those wonderful quotations of sages) may be useful even to established Messianic Jewish congregations.

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Pesach Haggadah

This is the Haggadah we used as a congregation for our 2006 congregational Pesach seder. It is designed so that everyone attending the seder takes turns reading paragraphs, with a few exceptions for those given the traditional seder roles of "father", "mother", and "child who asks questions".

Because our congregational Pesach seder has many guests, we purposefully did not use our philosophy of sharing and prayer discussed in the Yirat Adonai essays. To keep the event comfortable for guests the evening was more an experience of remembring and learning than prayer. (We did have over an hour of dancing after the seder, but that is not part of the Haggadah.) Also in an effort to keep the event comfortable for all guests, nearly all explicitly Messianic teaching appears only in the Haggadah's footnotes; this allows everyone to be exposed to that teaching without being potentially expected to read it aloud.

Using this Haggadah requires about three hours, including the meal. As with our Shabbat prayerbook it can be used by a new Messianic Jewish congregation that is starting out and needing free resources, and pieces of it may be useful even to established Messianic Jewish congregations.

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