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Joshua Gutoff
Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, and later received a Doctorate in Jewish Education there, writing on Talmud education and the development of the moral imagination. A writer and teacher, he lives in Philadelphia.
על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh | עלינו Aleinu | baby daughters | ברכות brakhot | ceremony | Conservative Judaism | Constructivism | English Translation | Essays on Prayer as Praxis | infants | interpretive translation | Late Antiquity | liturgical theory | liturgy and ethics | Mask Making | naming | naming ceremonies | North America | Parents blessing children | particularism and universalism | Rosh Hashanah | teaching prayer | tolerance of difference | צדקה tsedaqah | weltanschauung | why prayer | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ | Aleinu, interpretive translation by Joshua Gutoff
Contributed by Joshua Gutoff | Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution) | ❧
A “redemptive translation” of Aleinu emphasizing universalist Jewish values. . . .
