At present, the tradition or writing hanhagot continues. At the back are two neo-Chasidic hanhagot, by Hillel Zeitlin, a writer and martyr of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Arthur Green, a contemporary scholar and theologian, who is the author\’s mentor.
Lori Justice-Shocket thought that the traditional praying experience was just a bit too black and white. Not the prayers, themselves, per se, but the siddurim (prayer books), with their plain black typeface on white pages and the archaic traditional language, made davening, for her at least, formal, stiff and lacking in the visual and emotional engagement that she thought prayer should have.
So Justice-Shocket, vice president of conceptual development at the Los Angeles-based nail polish company, OPI, decided to take matters into her own presumably well-manicured hands and create a prayer book that could visually and intellectually inspire worshippers.
Rabbi Harold Kushner\’s son, Aaron, died two days before he turned 14 following a battle with a rare and horrific childhood disease.
Chayim Frenkel, cantor at Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades, conceived \”Nishmat Tzedek\” (\”A Righteous Soul\”) in 1993 after his brother Tzvi, 39, died suddenly, the victim of an undetected blood disease.
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