January 2013 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

תפילה לבוחר טרם הבחירות | A Prayer for Voters Before the Israeli Election, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried

Contributor(s):	Esteban Gottfried, Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Josh Soref (translation)
Categories:	Yom Habḥirut, Elections & Voting
Tags:	מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Beit Tefillah Yisraeli, Parliamentary Election, democratic process, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., 2013 Israeli legislative election, Needing Proofreading
	A prayer for voting on election day in the State of Israel. . . .

Rosh Ḥodesh Shevat, a prayer-poem by Trisha Arlin

Contributor(s):	Trisha Arlin (liturgist)
Categories:	Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Rosh Ḥodesh Shəvat (שְׁבָט)
Tags:	שבת שירה shabbat shirah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer
	This is the month when we tell the story Of the escape from the narrow place. This is the month of Shabbat Shirah, When we sing the song of liberation. We give thanks for freedom. This is the month when we talk of wine and nuts and fruit, The New Year of the Trees. This is the month of Tu Bishvat When we eat the gifts of our planet. We give thanks to the earth. . . .

ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Rebirthing the Tree(s) of Life: Four Teachings for the Four Worlds of Tu BiShvat/Yah BiShvat by Arthur Waskow

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories:	Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
Tags:	Renewal, four worlds, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., neo-lurianic, Yah Bishvat
	The four teachings above are connected with the Four Worlds that the kabbalists saw as the architecture of the universe. When the Kabbalistic community of Tz’fat created the Seder for Tu BiShvat/ Yah BiShvat, they unfolded these Four Worlds in four cups of wine and four sorts of fruit and nuts (one sort so ethereal it was invisible and untouchable). This year, the full moon of Shvat will fall on Shabbat Shira itself, January 24-25. . . .

Adventures in Ancient Jewish Liturgy: the Birkat Kohanim

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady
Categories:	Liturgical traditions, Birkat Kohanim
Tags:	Kohanim, Priestly Blessing, קמעות qame'ot (amulets)
	The earliest artifacts recording Jewish liturgy (or for that matter any Hebrew formulation found in the Torah) are two small silver amulets, discovered in 1979 by Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay. He discovered the amulets in a burial chamber while excavating in Ketef Hinnom, a section of the Hinnom Valley south of Jerusalem’s Old City. The inscriptions on these amulets conclude with parts of the Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing), the three-part blessing in which the Kohanim are instructed to bless the people of Israel in Numbers 6:22-27. The script in the amulets dates them approximately to the reign of King Yoshiyahu (late 7th or early 6th century BCE) predating the Nash papyrus, and the earliest of the Dead Sea Scrolls by four centuries. . . .

Maḥzor Aram Tsoba (1560)

Contributor(s):	Sephardic Pizmonim Project
Categories:	Maḥzorim (Festival Prayerbooks)
Tags:	Nusaḥ Sefaradi, Minhag Aleppo Musta'arabi
	Maḥzor Aram Tsoba (1560), transcribed by David Betesh for the Sephardic Pizmonim Project. . . .

סֵדֶר ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Seder Rosh Hashanah La’Ilan: A four worlds seder for Tu Bishvat, by Rabbi R. Karpov

Contributor(s):	Rabbi R. Karpov, Ph.D.
Categories:	Seder l'Rosh Hashanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
Tags:	four worlds, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, neo-lurianic
	A four worlds, neo-ḥasidic haggadah for the Seder Tu BiShvat . . .

Source texts on Jewish Prayer and Spirituality, compiled by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman

Contributor(s):	Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation)
Categories:	Davvening, Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer
Tags:	sourcesheet, Silence, Breath, Music, Words, Community
	A few select source texts on prayer and davvenen of importance to Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman. . . .

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