Rabbi Jules Harlow, who brought poetry and music to the style of prayer in Conservative Judaism, died on Feb. 12. He was 92.

Rabbi Harlow’s major works — prayer books for daily, Sabbath, festival and High Holy Days use — became the standards for worship in Conservative synagogues in North America. Several of his books sold well over 100,000 copies each, according to the Rabbinical Assembly, which published them.

Rabbi Harlow aspired to make the prayer book accessible to those who did not speak Hebrew, translating into English the rhyme and meter of the original Hebrew into Siddur Sim Shalom.

[Siddur Sim Shalom is the prayer book used at our synagogue here in Greenport.]