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February 2019 A prayer of thanksgiving for when it rains in a land needing rainfall. . . . A prayer of thanksgiving for when it snows in a land needing snowfall (and ultimately, snowmelt). . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 February 2019. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 May 2011. . . . Categories: Tags: 112th Congress, 2011 Joplin tornado, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 April 2011. . . . Categories: Tags: 112th Congress, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 June 2010. . . . Categories: Tags: 111th Congress, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): Suggestions for chaplains on offering public prayers in interfaith settings. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Where We Can Find God,” a prayer-poem inspired by passages appearing in David Frishman’s Hebrew translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, cosmic religion, is it Sikh or Hassidic?, Prayers as poems, universalist prayers Contributor(s): A memorial prayer for service members lost in times of war, given by a chaplain who sacrificed his life for others during WWII. . . . “Man Is Here for the Sake of Others,” a short excerpt from a longer essay by Albert Einstein, was included by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in his collection of supplemental prayers and texts for personal prayer and synagogue services: An Offering of Prayer (Temple Sinai of Summit, New Jersey, 1962). The full text of Einstein’s essay appeared under the title “What I Believe” in Forum and Century 84 (October 1930), no. 4, p. 193-194. David E. Rowe and Robert Schulman (in Einstein on Politics 2007, p. 226) note, “The text was reproduced several times under the title ‘The World as I See It,’ most notably in Mein Weltbild and Ideas and Opinions, and in 1932 the German League of Human Rights released a phonograph recording of Einstein reading a slightly variant version entitled ‘Confession of Belief.'” . . . Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🌐 International Workers' Day (May 1st), 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), 🌐 Human Rights Day (December 10th) Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anti-fascist, cosmic religion, democracy, determinism, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), Openers Contributor(s): A kinah/elegy for those massacred in the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648–1649 composed by a possible eyewitness to the tragedy. . . . A 42 Letter Divine Name acrostic piyyut to comfort someone in the process of dying. . . . Categories: Tags: 17th century C.E., 42 letter divine name, 54th century A.M., ascent, between life and death, caring for the dying, hospice, פיוטים piyyuṭim, thanatology Contributor(s): The Megillat Saragossa (also known as the Megillat Syracusa) in Hebrew and English, named after the tale of rescue and reversal of fortune in the cultural memory of some Sepharadi communities, to be read on the 17th of Shəvat. . . . Categories: Tags: 15th century C.E., 17 Shəvat, 52nd century A.M., local communal deliverance commemorations, medieval megillot, romanticism, second Purims Contributor(s): Chapter 1 of Pirqei Avot (Fundamental Principles [of Rabbinic Judaism]) with cantillation and English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The formula for the abbreviated Birkat Hamazon, in Hebrew with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Psalms 20 by David in Hebrew with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A Ladino translation of Psalms 22 first published in mid-19th century Izmir. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Izmir, Ladino Translation, למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ, מזמור Mizmor, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Jewry, תהלים Psalms, Psalms 22 Contributor(s): Psalms 84 in Hebrew with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Psalms 111, an alphabetic acrostic translated into English by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Psalms 113 in Hebrew with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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