Books
Books by Rabbi Menachem Creditor, organized for easier browsing by recent releases, essays, Torah, prayer and holiday resources, anthologies, poetry, justice, children’s books, and out of print titles.
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Recent releases
Newest titles and newest editionsIn Every Generation: Immigration as a Jewish Value: A Passover Haggadah Supplement
A Haggadah supplement on immigration as a Jewish value, rooted in Torah, liturgy, collective memory, and the commandment to love the stranger.
Co edited by Dr. Ora Horn Prouser and Rabbi Menachem Creditor.
Struggling with Holiness and Power: Selected Essays, 2025
Urgent essays written amid rising antisemitism, war, grief, Zionism, Jewish power, LGBTQ dignity, and moral responsibility after October 7.
At Home in the World: Musings Toward a Zionist Diasporic Vision
A meditation on Jewish peoplehood in which Zionism and Diaspora are covenantal partners, each incomplete without the other.
Genesis: Reflections on the Weekly Torah Portion
Book One of Timeless Torah, offering accessible weekly Torah reflections grounded in tradition and contemporary spiritual life.
Foreword by Rabbi Susan Silverman.
Anti-Zionists, Unwitting Zionists: When Obsession Becomes Proof of Attachment
An argument that anti-Zionist fixation paradoxically affirms the centrality of Jewish self determination and invites transformation into responsibility.
Am Yisrael Chai: Special Edition, 2025
A combined edition of poems, prayers, essays, and sermons created in the immediate aftermath of October 7.
Holiday resources
Passover, Tisha B’Av, High Holidays, Purim, Hanukkah, and morePerhaps There is Hope: A Tisha B’Av Supplement
A contemporary anthology on grief, resilience, brokenness, and hope.
Co edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser.
Redemption Unfinished: A Seder Supplement
A Seder companion linking Exodus memory, hostages, oppression, freedom, and the unfinished work of redemption.
These Holy Days: A High Holiday Supplement After October 7
A resource for Elul and Tishrei after October 7, supporting prayer, memory, grief, and communal strength.
Co edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser.
An Upside Down World: Esther and Antisemitism
A Purim resource on antisemitism, courage, advocacy, concealed identity, allies, community, and joy in a changed world.
Co edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser.
Seder Interrupted: A Post October 7 Haggadah Supplement
A Passover supplement for processing freedom, sadness, Israel, hostages, antisemitism, and spiritual connection after October 7.
Co edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser.
Slavery, Freedom, and Everything Between
A collection exploring the why, how, and what of Passover and its call to expand freedom.
To Banish Darkness: Modern Reflections on Hanukkah
Contemporary Jewish reflections on the Festival of Lights and the power of light to banish darkness.
Selected writings and essays
Collected essays across yearsBlessing in a Broken World: Selected Essays, 2024
Essays on grief, hope, Torah, leadership, Pride, justice, and Jewish resilience in a fractured world.
After October 7: Essays
Fifty three reflections on devastation, witness, memory, resilience, justice, compassion, and Jewish strength after October 7.
Crackling and Alive: Selected Writings 2006 to 2023
A curated collection of writings on justice, faith, women, poverty, gun violence, communities of color, Israel, and tikkun olam.
God Kisses: Selected Writings 2023
Essays from a tumultuous Jewish year, from Israel’s judicial overhaul protest movement to the horrors of October 7.
The Consequences of Listening: Selected Writings 2018 to 2022
Essays responding to pandemic, January 6, racial injustice, antisemitism, polarization, populism, hope, wisdom, and strength.
A Rabbi’s Heart: Selected Writings 2006 to 2017
A foundational collection of essays and reflections, with a foreword by Rabbi David Wolpe.
Open to Wonder: Selected Essays, 2015 to 2017
Essays on questions, home, justice, sacred meaning, violence, political corruption, and contemporary religious life.
Intense Beginnings: Selected Writings 2014
Essays on religious moral values, social justice, gun violence, communities of color, Israel, and tikkun olam.
What Does it Mean? Selected Writings 2006 to 2013
Selected writings on Judaism, universal values, meaning beyond synagogue walls, and the divine image in every soul.
Torah and Jewish learning
Commentary, learning, prayerbooks, and Jewish thoughtPlagues and Promises: A Post October 7 Commentary on the Book of Exodus
The second Post October 7 Torah commentary volume, following A Difficult Beginning on Genesis.
A Difficult Beginning: A Post October 7 Commentary on the Book of Genesis
The first Post October 7 Torah commentary volume, bearing spiritual testimony to a deeply difficult time in Jewish history.
Co edited with Daphne Lazar Price.
Impossible Torah: The Complete AI Torah Commentary
An experimental AI Torah commentary generated through ChatGPT, with Rabbi Creditor’s introduction and conclusion.
A Year of Torah
A contemporary Torah commentary born from UJA-Federation daily broadcasts that began March 18, 2020.
At the Mountain: An Anthology of Jewish Reflections on God, Commandedness, and Spirituality
A gathering of contemporary voices reflecting on God, revelation, commandedness, spirituality, doubt, devotion, and encounter.
The ShefaNetwork Archive
A collection of voices and dreams from within the Conservative and Masorti movement.
Prayer and poetry
Siddurim, psalms, poems, and spiritual responsesSiddur Leivav Penimah: A Fully Transliterated Jewish Prayerbook for the Inner Heart
A fully transliterated and partially translated Jewish prayerbook rooted in traditional egalitarian liturgy.
Siddur Tov LeHodot I and II
Fully transliterated and partially translated Shabbat prayerbooks for Shabbat morning and Shabbat evening.
Calling Out: Psalms for Today
Modern day psalms evoking the ache for healing, guidance, illumination, and prayer in a world of conflict and uncertainty.
Co edited with Sarah Tuttle-Singer.
Israel Poems
Poetry as a love letter to Israel and the Jewish people after October 7.
To Write of Love During War: Poems
Love letters from fourteen poets to Am Yisrael during war.
yes, my child: poems
Prayer poems of soul, pain, joy, and spiritual openness.
And Yet We Love: Poems
Poems of compassion, world conflict, personal pain, nature, gun violence, feeling, and breath.
Primal Prayers: Spiritual Responses to a Real World
Prayers for the joys and challenges of daily life.
Anthologies and edited collections
Collaborative works and multivocal Jewish responsesWe Rise: An Anthology of High Holiday Sermons Delivered the Year after October 7
High Holiday sermons from rabbis across Israel, England, Canada, and the United States one year after October 7.
Am Yisrael Chai: Essays, Prayers, and Poems, Volumes One and Two
A two volume emergency response anthology of global Jewish voices after the October 7 attacks.
Exploring the Complicated Place of Progressive American Jewish Zionism
A collection on Progressive Zionism, American Jewish identity, cancel culture, Israel, Palestinians, and moral complexity.
Co edited with Amanda Berman.
Honey from the Rock: A Pandemic Era Rabbinic Anthology
A diverse anthology of rabbinic reflection from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Foreword by Betsy Stone, PhD. Afterword by Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz.
Jewish Resilience: Rabbinic Reflections After Colleyville
Rabbinic reflections after the Colleyville hostage crisis, offering presence, resilience, and Jewish solidarity.
Foreword by Rabbi Angela Buchdahl.
Remember and Do Not Forget
A Jewish communal response to January 6, 2021 and the power of collective memory.
Co edited with Rabbi Jesse Olitzky.
When We Turned Within: Reflections on COVID-19
Two volumes of reflections, prayers, and poems from 165 voices responding to COVID-19.
Co edited with Sarah Tuttle-Singer.
Loud, Proud, and Jewish
Essays from Jewish leaders exploring unapologetic Jewish pride amid vulnerability and growing antisemitism.
The Hope: American Jewish Voices in Support of Israel
A diverse collection of American Jewish voices affirming support for Israel and Am Yisrael.
Justice, Zionism, and gun violence prevention
Moral response, advocacy, and public Jewish voiceZionism is Just
A concise reflection on Zionism, Judaism, universal justice, Jewish self determination, and moral clarity.
Ending Gun Violence: Essays, Prayers, and Poems
Collected essays, poems, and prayers from Rabbi Creditor’s leadership of Rabbis Against Gun Violence.
Foreword by Fred Guttenberg.
All Who Can Protest: A Rabbinic Call to End the American Gun Violence Epidemic
A rabbinic response to mass shootings and the ongoing call to end American gun violence.
Co edited with Rabbi Rachel Timoner, Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, and Rabbi Michelle Dardashti.
The Rabbis Against Gun Violence Anthology: None Shall Make Them Afraid
A rabbinic anthology calling for action toward a world without gun violence.
Holding Fast: Jews Respond to American Gun Violence
A Jewish response to the Tree of Life shooting and the American gun violence epidemic.
Not By Might: Channeling the Power of Faith to End Gun Violence
American faith voices speaking, preaching, and acting to end the gun violence epidemic.
Peace in Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence
A passionate rabbinic response to national pain, fragility, public violence, and the moral call to seek the peace of the city.
We Will Not Be Silent: Voices of the #JewishResistance
Jewish voices of spiritual resistance, moral action, radical empathy, liberty, and justice.
Children’s books
Rhyming Jewish stories and holiday companionsA Seder Rhyme
A rhyming children’s companion for the Passover Seder, with illustrations by children.
Avodah: A Yom Kippur Story
A rhyming story from the High Priest’s perspective about Yom Kippur and the difference one person can make.
Rabbi Rebecca and the Thanksgiving Leftovers
A Jewish Thanksgiving story of wisdom and love from Rabbi Rebecca, a teacher who travels the world sharing Torah.
Out of print
Archived and earlier titlesThanksgiving Torah: Jewish Reflections on an American Holiday
Five rabbinic voices reflecting on gratitude, thanksgiving, American community, and the Jewish obligation to translate gratitude into responsibility.
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