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
Categories:	Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
Tags:	eco-conscious, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Trees, Forests, Clean Air, deforestation
	A Tu biShvat prayer for the trees of the land of Israel and the world over, that they not be victims of deforestation. . . .

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

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Heinrich Heine and Margaret Armour (translation)
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah Shlishit
Tags:	19th century C.E., food, 57th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, Elysium, lycanthropy, German orientalism, 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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Shabbat Məvorkhim, Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet (טֵבֵת)
Tags:	19th century C.E., judgement, תחינות tkhines, Rain, new moon, שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, in the merit of our ancestors, Mazal G'di, Capricorn, winter, Tribe of Dan, Uriel, Bilhah, Avraham Avinu, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh
	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 . . .

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)
Categories:	Inauguration Day (January 20th), Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), United States of America
Tags:	19th century C.E., United States, Presidents Day, 57th century A.M., New York City, George Washington, American Jewry of the United States, Prayers for leaders, Benjamin Harrison, Needing Vocalization
	The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yitsḥak Luria
Categories:	Birkhot haShaḥar, Davvening
Tags:	love, 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
	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. . . .

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