October 2014 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

📖 סידור ולא נבוש | Jewish Prayer as Shame Resilience Practice: Siddur v’Lo Nevosh for Shaḥarit by Rabbi Shoshana Friedman

Contributor(s):

Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

Categories:

Personal & Paraliturgical Prayer collections, Morning siddurim

Tags:

Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., shame resilience

A prayerbook of paraliturgical reflections on the weekday morning prayers composed for a shame resilience practice. . . .

הַוִּדּוּי הַמַּשְׁלִים | HaVidui haMashlim (Complementary Confession), by Rabbi Binyamin Holtzman

Contributor(s):

Joseph B. Meszler (translation) and Binyamin Holtzman

Categories:

Yom Kippur

Tags:

וידוי vidui, Maale Gilboa, acrostic, acknowledgment, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, ישראל Yisrael, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui

A complementary (positive vidui) to supplement the harsh communal and personal vidu’im (confessions) being offered during the Zman Teshuvah. . . .

💬 The Rainbow Haftarah by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1993)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Jack Kessler (trōpification), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Arthur Waskow, Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality and the Shalom Center

Categories:

Parashat Noaḥ, Yom haḲeshet (27 Iyyar) Readings, Modern Miscellany

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פרשת נח Parashat Noaḥ, שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu, 58th century A.M., Hebrew translation, Rainbow Day, prophetic revelation, Renewal, 20th century C.E., eco-conscious

A declaration in 1993 by Rabbi Arthur Waskow in response to the impending danger of global warming and other ecotastrophes brought about by the callous harm of human industry and land use decisions. Translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . .

תפילה קודם למוד הקבלה | Prayer Before Studying Ḳabbalah, by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translated by Aharon Varady)

Contributor(s):

Yitsḥak Luria and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, Torah Study

Tags:

school of the ARI z"l, קבלה ḳabbalah, esoteric Judaism, 16th century C.E., Lurianic, 54th century A.M.

Master of the worlds and Lord of Lords, Father of Compassion and Forgiveness, we give thanks before you [haShem] Elohainu, Elohai of our ancestors, by bowing and kneeling for having brought us near to your Torah and to your sacred work, and for granting us a portion in the hidden insights of your holy Torah. . . .