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2014 —⟶ September 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 August 2014 📅 October 2014 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in September 2014 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A prayer to be recited upon donating blood. In Israel, there are major blood drives around the times of Rosh Hashana and Pesaḥ, so the prayer borrows themes from both of those holidays. It emphasizes both the tzedaka aspect of blood donation and the ancient symbolic resonances of blood sacrifice. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., blood, English Translation, giving blood, כוונות kavvanot, life giving, matanat dam, self-sacrifice, תחינות teḥinot, ישראל Yisrael Contributor(s): This Haraḥaman (prayer to the merciful or compassionate One) for the Shmitah or sabbatical year can be added to Birkat Hamazon (blessing after meals) during the whole Shmitah year, in order to remember and open our hearts to the sanctity of the land. Say it right before the Haraḥaman for Shabbat, since Shmitah is the grand shabbat, and right after the paragraph beginning with Bamarom (a/k/a, Mimarom). After struggling with the requests in Aneinu, read during Seliḥot, I composed a list of requests and questions for this upcoming Shmitah year. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ḥeshbon nefesh, סליחות səliḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): A prayer for the peaceful resolution of Israel’s conflicts with her neighbors and a mutually agreeable end to her dominion over the Palestinians, in Hebrew and in English, appropriate for inserting in the Birkat HaMazon especially on Shabbat and Festivals, or for reciting at any time. Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Blessings After Eating, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel) Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Establishing borders, HaRaḥaman, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Needing Vocalization, the Occupation Contributor(s): A selection from Jewish Theology after Google: Post-Rabbinic and Post-Denominational Judaisms in a Digitized World (a Masters thesis for the University of Basel, 2014), specific to the Open Siddur Project. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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