December 2017 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

תְּפִלָּה לַעֲצֵי הַיַּעַר עַל ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Prayer for the Trees of the Forest on Tu biShvat, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

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North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Trees, Forests, Clean Air, deforestation, eco-conscious

A Tu biShvat prayer for the trees of the land of Israel and the world over, that they not be victims of deforestation. . . .

Prayer for the Centennial of the Inauguration of George Washington, by Rabbi Yaakov Yosef (1889)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Yaakov Yosef and Judah David Eisenstein (translation)

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Inauguration Day (January 20th), Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), United States of America

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George Washington, American Jewry of the United States, Prayers for leaders, 19th century C.E., Benjamin Harrison, United States, Presidents Day, 57th century A.M., New York City, Needing Vocalization

The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration . . .

תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ טֵבֵת | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet (1877)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

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Shabbat Məvorkhim, Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet (טֵבֵת)

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57th century A.M., paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, 19th century C.E., in the merit of our ancestors, judgement, Mazal G'di, תחינות tkhines, Capricorn, winter, Rain, Tribe of Dan, new moon, Uriel, שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim, Bilhah, תחינות teḥinot, Avraham Avinu

To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ טֵבֵת (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet”) 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 . . .

Prinzessin Sabbat | Princess Shabbat, by Heinrich Heine (1851)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Margaret Armour (translation) and Heinrich Heine

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

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57th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, Elysium, lycanthropy, 19th century C.E., German orientalism, food, German romanticism, Sardonic poetry

“Prinzessin Sabbat” by Heinrich Heine, in Romanzero III: Hebraeische Melodien, (“Princess Shabbat,” in Romanzero III, Hebrew Melodies.), 1851 was translated into English by Margaret Armour (1860-1943), The Works of Heinrich Heine vol. 12: Romancero: Book III, Last Poems (1891). We have replaced “schalet” (unchanged in Armour’s translation) with cholent. . . .

מָעוֹז צוּר | Maoz Tsur, attributed to Mordecai ben Yitsḥak haLevi (adapted by R’ Joseph H. Hertz, trans. by Solomon Solis-Cohen)

Contributor(s):

Solomon da Silva Solis-Cohen (translation), Joseph Herman Hertz and Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi

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Ḥanukkah

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מעוז צור Maoz Tsur, Mainz, post-Holocaust liturgical adaptations, פיוטים piyyutim, British Jewry, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature

Maoz Tsur as translated by Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, with Hebrew adapted in the first stanza by Joseph Herman Hertz, chief rabbi of the British Empire. . . .

הֲרֵינִי מְקַבֵּל עָלַי | A kavvanah to love your fellow as yourself, before prayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yitsḥak Luria

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Birkhot haShaḥar, National Brotherhood Week, Davvening

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Openers, כוונות kavvanot, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., school of the ARI z"l, Leviticus 19, fellowship, love your fellow as yourself, love

The custom of reciting this intention is attributed to Rav Yitzḥak Luria, circa 16th century, on Leviticus 19:18, recorded in Minhagei ha-Arizal–Petura d’Abba, p.3b by R’ Ḥayyim Vital. . . .