January 2012 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

A Prayer before Candle-lighting, by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Contributor(s):	Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Categories:	Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
Tags:	Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer
	Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . .

In Search of Seraḥ: A Prayer to Seraḥ by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Contributor(s):	Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Categories:	Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags:	Ancestors, Artists, Healing, inspiration, Parashat Vayigash, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English poetry, prayers in the name of ancestors, Prayers as poems
	[In Parshat Vayigash] we read of the members of Jacob’s family who went down to Egypt. There were 53 grandsons listed, but only a single granddaughter – Seraḥ, the daughter of Asher. The commentators wonder, what was so exceptional about this girl that her name was recorded? The Midrash spills forth with stories portraying an image of a unique and endearing Biblical heroine. Seraḥ stands as a trusted, beloved sage of the people. She possessed an uncommon gift of healing through poetry and music. Somewhat as Orpheus is to Greek myth, so is Seraḥ to the Biblical myth – the archetypal poet and bard. . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eshet Ḥayil, adaption by Alex and Peri Sinclair

Contributor(s):	Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat
Tags:	Feminism, love, eros, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil
	Peri and Alex Sinclair’s adaptation of the traditional Eishet Ḥayil, replacing a number of verses with ones selected from Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs/Canticles), Genesis, and elsewhere in Mishlei (Proverbs). . . .

Testing Web browsers as Platforms for Hebrew Text Publishing

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady
Categories:	Development
Tags:	testing, publishing, browsers, web-standards, @font-face
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תורה, נביאים וכתובים: תּרגום ייִדיש פֿון יהואש | The Yiddish Translation of the TaNaKh by Yehoyesh Shloyme Blumgarten

Contributor(s):	Yehoyesh Shloyme Blumgarten (translation), The Yehoyesh Project (transcription) and the Hierophant
Categories:	Targumim (Translations)
Tags:	Teutsch, תרגום targum, Yiddish translation
	The Open Siddur Project is pleased to distribute a masterful Yiddish translation of the Tanakh by “Yehoyesh” (Yehoash) Shloyme Blumgarten (1870-1927) as published in Torah, Neviʼim, u-Khetuvim (New York: Yehoʼash Farlag Gezelshaft, 1941) that now resides in the Public Domain. . . .

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