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2017 —⟶ November 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 October 2017 📅 December 2017 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in November 2017 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The Blessing over Separations was first read by Shelby Handler on Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev at the 2017 ADVA Reunion, a reunion of the community of Adamah Farm fellows and Teva Learning Center educators at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Adamah Farm, blessings, ברכות brakhot, English vernacular prayer, הבדלות havdalot, North America, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): This Yom Kipur, our congregation (Beth Jacob Synagogue in Hamilton) requested a reworking of the piyyut, “Amits Koaḥ” (text, audio) since the language is very tough and resists plain translation into English. I was also commissioned to write a poem describing the history of the world from a Jewish perspective, from scratch and in English, for use at the beginning of the Avodah service. It turned out to be just as obscure as the original so I put in a little column to the right with a little reference what I was talking about. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Amits Koaḥ, drash, English piyyutim, mytho-history, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): A Mi Sheberakh prayer for those affected by natural disasters. This prayer uses many standard liturgical phrases in a new context to stress that God, while full of great power, is not a God of destruction but one of peace and life. Quoting the famous vision of Elijah at Ḥorev, this prayer is for those who seek comfort and tranquility from their God. From resurgent neo-fascist movements to religious extremist attacks, hate crimes are on the rise all over the world right now. At times like this many people live in fear – fear of being attacked or maligned, physical, mental or emotional. Hatred is not new to the Jewish people, but traditionally it was considered “just the way it is.” As Americans, we should believe better. The midrash (Devarim Rabbah 5:10) says that hateful speech kills three – the speaker, the listener, and the subject. This Mi Sheberakh was written as a prayer for all those of every people and nation that are affected by hatred and bigotry. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A ḳinah (lamentation) for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzḥak Rabin, assassinated on 4 November 1995, the yahrzeit of which is י״א בְּמַרחֶשְׁוָן (11 Marḥeshvan). Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., assassination, Assassination of Yitsḥaq Rabin, elegies, English vernacular prayer, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Prayers for leaders, prime minister, קינות Ḳinōt, ישראל Yisrael, Yitsḥaq Rabin Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Reb Arthur Waskow, and others helped to formulate this grammatically feminine Hebrew blessing for an oleh in their blessing over the Torah reading, in the early years of Congregation Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia (1988-1983). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aliyah, Divine Feminine, North America, Philadelphia, Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet, Renewal Contributor(s): The Yiddish resistance song, “Partisaner Lid” (The Partisan Song) was composed by Hirsh Glick in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Ḥanukkah, 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (28-29 April) Tags: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-fascist, anti-fascist action, anti-Nazi, Guerrilla warfare, partisan resistance, resistance, the Holocaust, Ukrainian translation, Vilna, World War Ⅱ, Yiddish songs, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Yiddishland Contributor(s): To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ כִּסְלֵו (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev”) which appeared in תחנות מקרא קודש (Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Widow and Brothers Romm, Vilna 1877). English translation adapted slightly from Techinas: A Voice from the Heart “As Only A Woman Can Pray” by Rivka Zakutinsky (Aura Press, 1992). –A.N. Varady Before potatoes entered the diet of Ashkenazi Jews, latkes were cheese pancakes, or cassola, as described in the poem “Even Boḥan” (Touchstone) by Rabbi Kalonymus b, Kalonymus ben Meir. Categories: Tags: 14th century C.E., 51st century A.M., anti-predatory, dairy foods, אבן בוחן Even Boḥan, Late Middle Ages, Megillat Antiokhus, Megillat Yehudit, the Rainbow Contributor(s): A prayer for the welfare of the government in Yiddish from A Naye Shas Tkhine Rav Pninim (after 1933). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, paraliturgical hanoten teshuah, תחינות tkhines, United States, World War Ⅱ, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of “Yehi Kh’vod” in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with the verses comprising the piyyut. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אשרי Ashrei, centos, devotional interpretation, English Translation, interpretive translation, leket psukim, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Psalms 145, Psukei Dezimra, remixed biblical verse Contributor(s): Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman introduced the tradition of reading these verses from Isaiah during the month of Kislev through the end of Ḥanukkah in his Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev of Kehillat Kol HaNeshamah (R’ Levi Weiman-Kelman, R’ Ma’ayan Turner, and Shaul Vardi, 2007). The translation provided here was adapted from the one made by Shaul Vardi in Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev. –Aharon Varady. | ||
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