The inaugural first post here at the Open Siddur Project website. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): I began by explaining that in the experience of religion there is a contradiction between the individual’s desire for authentic experience and their need for relevant tools to engage individual growth vis-à-vis the project of Judaism. This contradiction is actually a design challenge for useful tools in Judaism’s toolkit of educational and spiritual resources for its participants. The imperfect present is expressed in many current expressions of the Siddur. Although a siddur’s nusaḥ is an authentic expression of a tradition, its utility as a static tool for engaging the creative improvisation required for sinciere spiritual expression (as well as its ability to serve as the traditional tool for educating Jews in sourcetext) is certainly questionable. Our solution is a siddur that is a Siddur that users can build for themselves. Ingredients from all available siddur texts (i.e., copyright permitting) will be available for building siddurim ranging from unchanged nusaḥ Ashkenaz, to mashups of different nusḥaot with additional prayers and art added by the user, with user edited translations they contribute to, and with commentary they share with other users. In this way, a siddur user becomes a sophisticated master of t’fillah, seriously engaged in the prayer authored and offered by Jewish tradition with the freedom to enrich the tradition from their own experience privately or publicly. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The logo of the Open Siddur Project, as derived from the “color wheel” of the Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten (1961). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Open Siddur Project Development Status as of 8/23/2009 This is our first development status post. Normally, this post will try to wrap up what we’ve achieved in the past week. Since this is our first, I’ll be summing up some of the progress we’ve made in the last month or so. It will serve as […] Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Open Siddur Project Development Status as of 9/22/2009 Our second development status covers progress on the Open Siddur made since our last update 8/23/09. Email [email protected] if you want to include something we haven’t covered. For now we’ll be sending these out once a month but if you’d like to get news of Open Siddur […] Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Open Siddur Project Development Status as of 11/11/2009 Our third development status covers progress on the Open Siddur made since our last update 9/22/09. Email [email protected] if you want to include something we haven’t covered. For now we’ll be sending these out once a month but if you’d like to get news of Open Siddur […] Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Lead developer, Efraim Feinstein, recently contributed this helpful diagram of Open Siddur’s architecture. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Jewish Day School systems are filled with many talented students, and we would like to reach out to those interested in technology and computer science, particularly in high schools. The Open Siddur Project offers an opportunity for these students to participate in a real free software and open source project that is also relevant to the entire Jewish community. We invite them to participate in development discussions, provide original research, learn and write programs in a number of computer languages, edit, proofread, and correct texts, and work with others of many different backgrounds, in a pluralistic Jewish context. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The mark of a particularly valuable dictionary is how long it is still being used years after it’s introduced. Marcus Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature (1903), Brown-Driver-Brigg’s Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), and James Strong’s Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible […] Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Open Siddur Project Development Status as of February 2010/Adar 5770 Friends, The communal project of Jewish spirituality can only be improved through cooperation and collaboration. The creative work used in our traditional liturgies is the common cultural heritage of the Jewish people. Most of this work resides in the public domain. The Open Siddur is your […] Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Hello friends, Check out our progress! This development status update chronicles progress on the Open Siddur made since our last update, February 15, 2010. If you’d like to get news of Open Siddur Project development as it occurs, make sure to follow @opensiddur at Twitter, or join the opensiddur-announce email list. We also recommend following […] Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): In education, technology is a means to an end, not an end in itself. There are some problems technology can solve, and others it can’t. As Joel Grishaver said better than I can, technology is a “plus” not “or” proposition. Learners will have different success rates using technological solutions, such as distance learning, and the use of computers cannot take the place of a real-world social community. On the other hand, technology also has the potential to transform learning and learning environments and to make both learning materials and the teachers to guide their use accessible where they would not have otherwise been. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A series of tests to determine how well some popular and some less well-known web browsers perform in supporting the technology for displaying Hebrew text. In particular, I’m interested to see which browsers are failing to use a web standard called CSS @font-face to properly display Unicode Hebrew fonts that support the full range of Hebrew diacritics and which contain excellent font logic for diacritical positioning. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A list of all the miscellaneous resources shared through the Open Siddur Project, sorted by date. (Some dates are approximate.) Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A list of all the siddurim, maḥzorim, birkonim, haggadot, etc., scanned (imaged) and shared through the Open Siddur Project, sorted by date. (Some dates are approximate.) Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is a generated list of all the prayers, piyyutim, pizmonim, etc., shared through the Open Siddur Project, sorted by date. (Some dates are approximate.) Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A list of all the public readings and liturgical sources shared through the Open Siddur Project, sorted by date. (Some dates are approximate.) Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A test page for testing new wordpress code. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A Wordpress plugin that renders the Unicode character “Vulcan Salute” (U+1F596) together with its mirror image as inline, bidi-safe markup — in order to display, via shortcode, the traditional nesíăt kapayim (“lifting of the hands”) gesture used by Kohanim during the Birkat Kohanim (a/k/a dukhenen) service. The display defaults to showing both hands side by side (right hand before left hand, thumbs facing inward), however, either hand alone is also selectable. Supports full-color emoji vs. line-art (“vs15”) rendering, and fluid display sizing via CSS clamp(), if desired. Skin tone is available from light to medium to dark with ‘medium-light’ and ‘medium-dark’ also available. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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