Modeh Ani: The Transcendent Prayer of Gratitude

Modeh Ani: The Transcendent Prayer of Gratitude is the fifth book of the 10-volume Mesorah Matrix series (see Mesorah1000.com). The prayer - typically the first prayer that Jewish children are taught - is typically glossed-over by scholars. However, the essayists will explore the theme in different dimensions from various angles of 'applied scholarship'. Mesorah Matrix is a major - and potentially landmark - intellectual-spiritual- philosophical endeavor. The plan well-underway is to publish 10 separate books - each on a very focused Jewish theme - under the Mesorah Matrix umbrella. By the end of 2018, over 150 leading authors/essayists globally will be involved in the decade- spanning project. The focused-purpose and raison d'etre of the series is to more fully draw-out the spiritual and transcendent embedded within Judaism. These are sometimes referred-to as Elyonoth or "Higher-Sphere" themes. The intent of the quite- unique 10-volume series is to be "transformational." The Editor-in-Chief of the over-all series is David Birnbaum of Manhattan, author of the Summa Metaphysica philosophy series. Mesorah Matrix, in turn, is under the greater umbrella of New Paradigm Matrix Publishing [see www.NewParadigmMatrix.com] which exclusively publishes "cutting edge" works - in metaphysics, philosophy, history and now, spirituality. Works by Manhattan Matrix are Course Texts at major universities around-the-world. For Modeh Ani, Senior Editor Martin S. Cohen; Associate Editor Saul J. Berman; Contributors: Rachel Barenblat, Reuven P. Bulka, Martin S. Cohen, Elliot N. Dorff, David Ellenson, Avraham Feder, Alon C. Ferency, Aubrey L. Glazer, Mark B. Greenspan, Daniel Greyberr, Jonathan Jacobs, James Jacobson-Maisels, Dalia Marx, José Rolando Matalon, Alan Mittleman, Avram Israel Reisner, Gidon Rothstein, Rebecca W. Sirbu, Elie Kaplan Spitz, Barbara Shulamit Thiede, Orna Triguboff, and Michael Wasserman.