Draw­ing on his vast knowl­edge of litur­gy, his­to­ry and lit­er­a­ture, Rab­bi Hoff­man guides vis­i­tors in plumb­ing the spir­i­tu­al sig­nif­i­cance of some 25 des­ti­na­tions in the Holy Land. For each des­ti­na­tion, Rab­bi Hoff­man briefly describes the site in mate­r­i­al to be read before the vis­it, pro­vides read­ings for the trip to the site, and — most sig­nif­i­cant­ly — deep­ens the vis­it with prayers and bless­ings to be recit­ed at the site. Space is left for the vis­i­tors’ per­son­al response to each of the destinations. 

In fol­low­ing Rab­bi Hoffman’s out­line, vis­i­tors will make both a spir­i­tu­al and per­son­al jour­ney — to his­to­ry, to their peo­ple, ​“to the place where it all began.” Index to places and occa­sions for which prayers are pro­vid­ed, illus­tra­tive maps, notes.