We are grateful to Amit Gvaryahu for sharing his sourcesheets for his Siddur class at Yeshivat Hadar’s 90@190 Open Beit Midrash this past summer 5771/2011, and for sharing his translations with a CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license. . . . → Read More: Siddur Class: Sourcesheets from Amit Gvaryahu’s Shiur on Tefillah
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We are grateful to Alan Scott Belsky for translating his favorite Prayer for the Government. The version below is included in the סדור שְׂפַת אֱמֶת הֶחָדָשׁ — Siddur Sfat Emet HeḤadash “Daily Prayer with English Directions” (1916, Hebrew Publishing Co., New York, NY) p.195-196. Thank you to Aharon Varady for his transcription of the Hebrew . . . → Read More: A Civic Minded Prayer for the Government (translated by Alan Scott Belsky) Language is simultaneously a portal and a barrier to prayer. Jews have prayed in Hebrew for millennia, yet our oldest sources also speak of prayer in other languages. Come explore the history of the language of prayer, how our linguistic preferences define what prayer is about, and how we might approach this issue today. . . . → Read More: It’s All Greek To Me–Praying in Languages Other than Hebrew: halakhic discourse with translations by Rav Ethan Tucker 
Ruler of Creation, Master of the world: Have mercy on all those who are suffering from the raging waters and the storming waves. Have compassion on Your creatures – Look, O Lord, and see their distress; Listen, God, and hear their cries. Strengthen the hands of those who would bring relief, comfort the mourners, Heal, please, the wounded. Grant us wisdom and discernment to know our obligations, and open our hearts so that we may extend our hands to the devastated. Bless us so that we may walk in Your ways, “compassionate ones, children of compassionate ones.” Grant us the will and the wisdom to prevent further disaster and death; Prevent plague from descending upon Your earth, and fulfill Your words, “Never again shall there be another flood to destroy the earth.” Amen. So may it be your will. . . . → Read More: Prayer in the Wake of the Tsunami 
Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953) Rabbi Louis Ginzberg’s “A Prayer for the Government,” was originally published in 1927 in the Festival Prayer Book, edited by Jacob Kohn and Maurice H. Farbridge. In his article “Conservative Prayerbooks” written for the Jewish Spectator in 1976, Dr. Eric Friedland had this to say about the Festival Prayer Book and Louis . . . → Read More: A Prayer for the Government by Louis Ginzberg (translation by R’ Tim Bernard) Many thanks to Dr. Devora Steinmetz and Rabbi David Silber for sharing the Simḥat Bat ceremony they prepared for their oldest daughter in 1987. From the Simhat Bat explanatory notes: We name our daughters on their fifteenth day of life. This is based on Vayiqra 12:1-5, which describes the length of a woman’s period of . . . → Read More: Simḥat Bat (by Dr. Devora Steinmetz and Rabbi David Silber, 1987) Rabbi Ethan Tucker of Mechon Hadar was gracious in sharing the sourcesheet below which he prepared in 2009 to accompany a shiur, an interactive lecture on the spectrum of halakhic opinion concerning changes made in Jewish liturgy. The sourcesheet is also available for download as a PDF and as an ODT (open document file). משנה . . . → Read More: The Limits of Liturgical Change: selections of halakhic discourse with translations by Rav Ethan Tucker R’ Elie Kaunfer and Lisa Exler kindly shared the Simḥat Bat ceremony they prepared for their daughter this past Monday, May 31st, at Fort Tryon Jewish Center. This Simḥat Bat is really distinguished by Rabbi Kaunfer’s innovation in using milk in the context of a covenant ceremony. From the explanatory notes: In place of the . . . → Read More: Simḥat Bat (by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer and Lisa Exler, 2010) |
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