Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Books for a Jewish life.
Torah, poetry, prayer, and Jewish public thought. Books I have written and collections I have edited, in service of learning, moral imagination, and a more loving world.
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Da’at HaKahal: A High Holidays Sermon Anthology 5787/2026
Edited by Rabbi Menachem Creditor
A collection of High Holiday sermons for 5787/2026. Explore the voices and teachings gathered in this new anthology.
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Justice & Public Life
American Torah at 250
Co-edited with Rabbi Charles Savenor
A gathering of Jewish voices that encounters the American story through Torah’s moral imagination, exploring freedom, dignity across difference, democracy, justice, gratitude, leadership, grief, and hope.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
The Covenant of And
Four works brought together into a unified vision of Zionism as an unfolding expression of Jewish tradition: rooted and evolving, particular and universal, committed to Israel and at home in the world.
Holidays & Ritual
You Shall Love: An AJR Tu B'Av Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
Torah, poetry, prayer, and reflection on love as connection, Jewish resilience, hope, and spiritual resistance.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Antizionism is Not Normal: Jewish Sovereignty, Moral Responsibility, and the Boundaries of Communal Discourse
Foreword by Rabbi Tracy Kaplowitz, PhD
Essays affirming Jewish sovereignty, moral responsibility, and the need for principled boundaries within Jewish communal discourse.
Holidays & Ritual
In Every Generation: Immigration as a Jewish Value: A Passover Haggadah Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A sacred exploration of immigration through Torah, liturgy, Jewish memory, poetry, prayer, and artwork.
Essays & Collected Writings
Struggling with Holiness and Power: Selected Essays, 2025
One hundred thirty-eight essays on Torah, grief, antisemitism, Zionism, power, moral courage, and responsibility.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
At Home in the World: Musings Toward a Zionist-Diasporic Vision
A vision of Zionism and Diaspora as covenantal partners in Jewish belonging, responsibility, and redemption.
Torah & Jewish Thought
Genesis: Reflections on the Weekly Torah Portion
Book One of Timeless Torah; foreword by Rabbi Susan Silverman
Accessible weekly Torah commentary blending traditional interpretation, contemporary relevance, and spiritual reflection.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Anti-Zionists, Unwitting Zionists: When Obsession Becomes Proof of Attachment
A provocative argument about anti-Zionist fixation, Jewish sovereignty, pluralism, and responsibility.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Am Yisrael Chai: Special Combined Edition, 2025
Hundreds of poems, prayers, essays, and sermons created in the immediate aftermath of October 7.
Holidays & Ritual
Perhaps There is Hope: A Tisha B'Av Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
Contemporary voices on grief, mourning, resilience, faith, and the flickering possibility of hope.
Torah & Jewish Thought
At the Mountain: An Anthology of Jewish Reflections on God, Commandedness, and Spirituality
Rabbis, poets, activists, artists, and scholars wrestle with God, revelation, obligation, and spiritual life.
Holidays & Ritual
Redemption Unfinished: A Seder Supplement
A Seder companion connecting freedom, memory, hostages, oppression, Jewish resilience, and moral responsibility.
Essays & Collected Writings
Blessing in a Broken World: Selected Essays (2024)
Essays on grief, hope, Torah, Pride, leadership, justice, and sacred life in a fractured world.
Poetry & Prayer
Siddur Leivav Penimah: A Fully Transliterated Jewish Prayerbook for the Inner Heart
A traditional egalitarian siddur with full transliteration and partial translation, designed for access and spiritual depth.
Holidays & Ritual
An Upside-Down World: Esther and Antisemitism
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A Purim supplement on hatred, identity, courage, advocacy, allies, and communal resilience.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Zionism is Just
A concise exploration of Zionism, Judaism, self-determination, equality, dignity, and justice.
Torah & Jewish Thought
Plagues and Promises: A Post-October 7 Commentary on the Book of Exodus
The second post-October 7 Torah-commentary volume, joining contemporary trauma to the enduring strength of Torah.
Holidays & Ritual
We Rise: An Anthology of High Holiday Sermons Delivered the Year after October 7
Sermons from spiritual leaders across several countries on resilience, faith, grief, and collective strength.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
After October 7: Essays
Fifty-three reflections on devastation, testimony, memory, resilience, justice, and hope.
Essays & Collected Writings
Crackling and Alive: Selected Writings 2006–2023
A curated collection on faith, public life, Israel, justice, courage, and difficult conversation.
Holidays & Ritual
These Holy Days: A High Holiday Supplement After October 7
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A resource for prayer and reflection through Elul and Tishrei in the aftermath of October 7.
Torah & Jewish Thought
A Difficult Beginning: A Post-October 7 Commentary on the Book of Genesis
Co-edited with Daphne Lazar Price
The first post-October 7 Torah-commentary volume, bearing spiritual testimony through the book of Genesis.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
God Kisses: Selected Writings 2023
Spiritual responses to Israel’s judicial-overhaul protests, October 7, and a tumultuous year in Jewish history.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Israel Poems
Poetry of love, grief, prayer, belonging, history, and hope in relationship with Israel and the Jewish people.
Poetry & Prayer
Calling Out: Psalms for Today
Co-edited with Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Modern psalms expressing fear, healing, spiritual yearning, geopolitical tension, and hope.
Holidays & Ritual
Seder Interrupted: A Post-October 7 Haggadah Supplement
Co-edited with Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
A Passover resource for confronting freedom, captivity, sorrow, solidarity, and Jewish ritual after October 7.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
To Write of Love During War: Poems
Love letters from fourteen poets to Am Yisrael, written in the months after October 7.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Am Yisrael Chai: Essays, Prayers, and Poems: Volumes One and Two
An emergency-response anthology of global Jewish voices grieving and gathering strength after October 7.
Essays & Collected Writings
The Consequences of Listening: Selected Writings 2018–2022
Essays on pandemic, January 6, racial justice, antisemitism, polarization, populism, beauty, and hope.
Torah & Jewish Thought
Impossible Torah: The Complete AI Torah Commentary
An experimental commentary generated through AI voices reflecting on each Torah portion.
Justice & Public Life
Ending Gun Violence: Essays, Prayers, and Poems
Foreword by Fred Guttenberg
A decade of spiritual writing and advocacy confronting America’s gun-violence epidemic.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Exploring the Complicated Place of Progressive American Jewish Zionism
Co-edited with Amanda Berman
Diverse voices on progressive Zionism, political loneliness, moral complexity, Israel, and American Jewish belonging.
Essays & Collected Writings
A Rabbi’s Heart: Selected Writings 2006–2017
Foreword by Rabbi David Wolpe
Essays, stories, and reflections on the world, the soul, moral growth, and Jewish life.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Loud, Proud, and Jewish
A diverse anthology of unapologetic Jewish pride amid vulnerability and rising antisemitism.
Torah & Jewish Thought
A Year of Torah
A contemporary Torah commentary born from daily online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Poetry & Prayer
When We Turned Within: Reflections on COVID-19: Volumes One and Two
Co-edited with Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Reflections, prayers, and poems from 165 contributors on loss, loneliness, faith, adaptation, and shared humanity.
Essays & Collected Writings
Open to Wonder: Selected Essays (2015–2017)
Essays on home, justice, sacred meaning, violence, political corruption, and the questions of contemporary life.
Justice & Public Life
We Will Not Be Silent: Voices of the #JewishResistance
Voices of moral action, radical empathy, faith, liberty, and resistance in a narrow political moment.
Holidays & Ritual
To Banish Darkness: Modern Reflections on Hanukkah
Contemporary Jewish voices on light, vulnerability, dedication, courage, and ritual.
Poetry & Prayer
yes, my child: poems
Prayer-poems of pain, joy, spiritual vision, and the soul’s encounter with the world.
Essays & Collected Writings
Intense Beginnings: Selected Writings 2014
Essays connecting religious moral values, Jewish learning, social justice, and public courage.
Essays & Collected Writings
What Does it Mean? Selected Writings 2006–2013
Early writings on Judaism’s universal values, human dignity, faith, and public life.
Torah & Jewish Thought
The ShefaNetwork Archive
A collection of visionary voices and dreams from within Conservative/Masorti Judaism.
Poetry & Prayer
And Yet We Love: Poems
Poems of compassion, nature, conflict, pain, gun violence, breath, and love.
Poetry & Prayer
Primal Prayers: Spiritual Responses to a Real World
Prayers for the joys, wounds, challenges, and healing possibilities of daily life.
Holidays & Ritual
Siddur Tov LeHodot I & II
Fully transliterated, partially translated prayerbooks for Shabbat morning and Shabbat evening.
Holidays & Ritual
Slavery, Freedom, and Everything Between: The Why, How and What of Passover
A collection exploring Passover’s history, ritual, spiritual values, freedom, and world-repair.
Justice & Public Life
All Who Can Protest: A Rabbinic Call to End the American Gun Violence Epidemic
Co-edited with Rabbis Rachel Timoner, Isaiah Rothstein, and Michelle Dardashti
Rabbinic moral witness following mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, and Laguna Woods.
Torah & Jewish Thought
Honey from the Rock: A Pandemic-Era Rabbinic Anthology
Foreword by Betsy Stone, PhD; afterword by Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz
A diverse gathering of rabbinic meaning-making, vulnerability, adaptation, and comfort during COVID-19.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
Jewish Resilience: Rabbinic Reflections After Colleyville
Foreword by Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Rabbinic reflections on presence, prayer, trauma, resistance, and resilience after the Colleyville hostage crisis.
Justice & Public Life
Remember and Do Not Forget
Co-edited with Rabbi Jesse Olitzky
A collection on January 6, collective memory, moral interpretation, and civic responsibility.
Justice & Public Life
The Rabbis Against Gun Violence Anthology: None Shall Make Them Afraid
Faith leaders move beyond silence and prayer toward legislation, intervention, advocacy, and culture change.
Justice & Public Life
Holding Fast: Jews Respond to American Gun Violence
Jewish voices responding to the Tree of Life massacre and demanding an end to America’s gun-violence epidemic.
Justice & Public Life
Not By Might: Channeling the Power of Faith to End Gun Violence
Foreword by Shannon Watts
A collection of American faith voices speaking, preaching, organizing, and acting against gun violence.
Israel, Zionism & Jewish Peoplehood
The Hope: American Jewish Voices in Support of Israel
Diverse American Jewish voices expressing solidarity, peoplehood, love, and hope for Israel.
Justice & Public Life
Peace in Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence
Rabbinic voices asking hard questions and offering a hopeful, faith-rooted response to national violence.
Children’s Books
A Seder Rhyme
A rhyming children’s companion to the Seder, illustrated by children and designed to explain while entertaining.
Children’s Books
Avodah: A Yom Kippur Story
A rhyming retelling of the High Priest’s Yom Kippur service and the difference one person can make.
Children’s Books
Rabbi Rebecca and the Thanksgiving Leftovers
A Jewish Thanksgiving story of Torah, wisdom, teaching, generosity, and love.
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Out of print
Thanksgiving Torah: Jewish Reflections on an American Holiday
Five rabbinic reflections on gratitude, American civic life, and transforming thanksgiving into responsibility.
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