Accidental Grace

Spiritual teacher, writer, rabbi, and poet, Rami Shapiro has taught thousands of people in workshops across North America for a quarter century. His books have sold in the hundreds of thousands. But before he did any of those things he was writing poems, psalms, and prayers that were anthologized in the Jewish siddurim of several different denominations. He did most of this work while he was a pulpit rabbi in Florida. Still today, every week at services, Jews in the Reform and Reconstructionist movements read Rami’s verse in their prayer books. Now, those spiritual teachings have been gathered into one volume, incorporating all of Rami’s poetic work over the course of his long and varied career. The result is startling—as if we’ve discovered a new spiritual teacher of great importance, all in verse.