March 2019 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan on 12 March 2019

Contributor(s):

United States Congressional Record and Claudio Kogan

Categories:

United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, 116th Congress, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 March 2019. . . .

Ceremony of Gender Affirmation and Name Change, by Lilah Rosenfield

Contributor(s):

Lilah Rosenfield

Categories:

Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31st)

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North America, transgender, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., naming ceremonies, gender transition

A public ceremony for celebrating the Gender Affirmation and Name Change of a man, woman, or non-binary person. . . .

Prayer for Israeli-Palestinian Solidarity, by Rabbi Ḥanan Schlesinger

Contributor(s):

Ḥanan Schlesinger

Categories:

Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession

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58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish particularism, particularism and universalism, Israelis and Palestinians, interdependence, human solidarity, interconnectedness, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E.

A prayer for Israeli-Palestinian solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identities greatly eclipse our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . .

Prayer for Human Solidarity, by Rabbi Ḥanan Schlesinger

Contributor(s):

Ḥanan Schlesinger

Categories:

National Brotherhood Week, United Nations Day (October 24th), Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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interdependence, human solidarity, interconnectedness, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish particularism, particularism and universalism, Israelis and Palestinians

A prayer for human solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identity as Bnei Yisrael greatly eclipses our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . .

A Prayer for the Greater Iowa City Church of the Nazarene, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

Categories:

Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry

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English vernacular prayer, solidarity, anti-fascist, standing together, Iowa City, Iowa, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.

A prayer in solidarity with the Greater Iowa City Church of the Nazarene, whose building was the target of hateful vandalism. . . .

Prayer for Universal Peace, by Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yisraëli (2019)

Contributor(s):

R' Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli

Categories:

National Brotherhood Week, United Nations Day (October 24th), Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer, Christchurch mosque shootings

A prayer for universal peace offered by Hillel Yisraeli-Lavery as an opening prayer to a talk given in Hamilton, Canada by 2011 Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee. . . .

From the Depths: A Prayer For Christchurch, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2019)

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

Categories:

Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Mass Shootings & Gun Violence

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers for municipalities, Christchurch mosque shootings

A prayer written in response to the massacre of Muslim worshipers during Friday prayers in Christchurch, New Zealand. . . .

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the Massachusetts State Senate: Rabbi Joseph Rudavsky on 24 March 1959

Contributor(s):

United States Congressional Record and Joseph Rudavsky

Categories:

Purim, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Massachusetts, Massachusetts Senate, Lawrence, 86th Congress

The opening prayer of the Massachusetts State Senate on 24 March 1959, added to the record of the U.S. House of Representatives. . . .

A Kavvanah on Praying, Singing, and Listening to Torah Readings, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1942)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Mel Scult and Mordecai Kaplan

Categories:

Before the Aliyot

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20th century C.E., Openers, 58th century A.M., Prayers for Praying, English vernacular prayer

A prayer on praying, singing, and Torah learning by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. . . .

ש״ס תחנה חדשה | Shas Teḥinah Ḥadashah (A New Tkhine of Six Orders), compiled by Ben-Tsiyon Alfes (Vilna 1910)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Ben-Tsiyon Alfes

Categories:

Personal & Paraliturgical Prayer collections

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer

A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by Ben-Tsiyon Alfes. . . .

אָנָּא בְּכֹחַ | Ana b’Khoaḥ, with Spanish translation by Rabbi Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero (1552)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero

Categories:

Dying, Slavery & Captivity

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15th century C.E., אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, acrostic, Spanish Translation, 54th century A.M.

An early printing of the 42 divine name letter acrostic piyyut, Ana b’Khoaḥ. . . .

The Presence of an Absence: a Public Reading for the Fast of Esther, the dark side to Purim, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow

Contributor(s):

Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center

Categories:

Taanit Esther Readings

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anti-fascist Judaism, anti-Kahanist, Israeli-Jewish settler violence, 2019 Israeli legislative election, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Philadelphia, Israelis and Palestinians

A public reading offered by Rabbi Arthur Waskow for the Fast of Esther in response to recent events in the State of Israel by the right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu admitting Jewish fascists into their administration. . . .

לכה דודי (נוסח אחר)‏ | A different version of Lekhah Dodi found in R’ Moshe ibn Makhir’s Seder haYom (1599)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir

Categories:

Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Queens, Psalms 92, Tsfat, פיוטים piyyutim

A different version of the poem Lekhah Dodi according to the book Seder haYom by R. Moshe ibn Makhir of righteous blessed memory, vocalized and translated into English by Isaac Mayer. . . .

יָצַר הָאֵל | Yatsar ha’El, a Shabbat song by Ya’aqov ha-Qara’i

Contributor(s):

Karaite Jews of America and Ya'aqov ha-Paitan

Categories:

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

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, Needing Attribution

A song for celebrating the Shabbat. . . .

אַדִירְיַרוֹן בַהִירְיַרוֹן | Adiryaron Ḅahiryaron, a litany of angelic names associated with the 42 letter name, recorded in Sefer haQanah

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Contemplation

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acrostic, Angels, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, angelology, ספר הקנה Sefer haQanah

A litany of angelic names recorded in Sefer HaQanah, whose initial letters spells out the 42 letter divine name as also found in Sefer haPeliah. . . .

אַדִירְיַרוֹן בַהִירְיַרוֹן | Adiryaron Ḅahiryaron, a litany of angelic names associated with the 42 letter name, recorded in Sefer haPeliah

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Contemplation

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acrostic, Angels, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, angelology, ספר הפליאה Sefer haPeliah

A litany of angelic names recorded in Sefer haPeliah whose initial letters spells out the 42 letter divine name as also found (in variation) in Sefer HaQanah. . . .