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July 2019 Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Gershon Avtzon on 25 July 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 July 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Mark Getman on 24 July 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 July 2019. . . . 💬 קְרִיאוֹת לִימֵי הַוָּתִיקִים (לאומי או בינלאומי) | Torah and Haftarah Readings for Days Recognizing Military Veterans, compiled by Isaac Gantwerk MayerThis is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited for such holidays. The aliyot are from Shoftim, describing the rules for just warfare and treatment of those in need. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Veterans Day Readings 💬 קריאות לימי העבודה | Torah and Haftarah Readings for Days Recognizing Organized Labor and Labor Rights, compiled by Isaac Gantwerk MayerThis is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on a national labor holiday. The aliyot are from Vayakhel, describing the construction of the Tabernacle. . . . Categories: Labor & Workers' Day Readings תְּפִלָּה בְּעַד מֶמְשֶׁלֶת שָׁלוֹם | Prayer for a Government of Peace, by Zackary Sholem Berger (2019)A prayer for a government when that government is causing pain through malicious policies. . . . 📖 סִימָן לְבָנִים | Siman l’Vanim: a birkon celebrating the wedding of Honi Sanders and Simona Dalin (2019)The birkon/bentsher (blessing-book) prepared for the wedding of Honi Sanders and Simona Dalin on July 7th, 2019. . . . Categories: Birkonim (בענטשערס Bentshers) Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., בענטשן bentshn, Needing Decompilation, wedding bentshers, wedding blessings, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation), Honi Sanders (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (translation) 📖 חֶסֶד־וּמִשְׁפָּט אָשִׁירָה לְךָ | Ḥesed uMishpat Ashirah Lekha, a bentsher celebrating the wedding of Isaac Brooks and Eliana Fishman (2018)An Ashkenazi Queer-Friendly bentsher. . . . Categories: Birkonim (בענטשערס Bentshers) A comprehensive treatment on the praxis of Jewish prayer. . . . A prayer for a beloved animal first compiled in English by Aharon N. Varady for Nethaniel Puzael, his family’s cat, in 1994. . . . Categories: Mourning 📖 סדר הגדה של פסח עברי-כּורדי | Seder Haggadah shel Pesaḥ (Ivri-Kurdi), a Passover seder haggadah for Kurdish Jews in Hebrew and Aramaic (1959)A Passover Seder Haggadah in Hebrew and Aramaic (or Kurdish, as stated on the title page) published in Israel for the wave of Kurdish-Jewish immigrants from Iraq and other eastern countries. . . . Categories: Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Brotherhood Week, Modern Miscellany, Labor & Workers' Day Readings, 🇺🇸 Independence Day Readings Siddur Qorban Minḥah, a Jewish prayerbook collecting the customs of the school of the ARI z”l, accompanied by tkhines and translations in Yiddish. . . . ליקוטי תפילות א:קמה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot Ⅰ:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemyriv adapted from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman (ca. 1820s)A prayer for Sukkot linking the theme of home building and receiving Torah with a warning not to eat animals and to extend ones compassion to all creatures. . . . 💬 The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America (1776) | די דעקלאראציע פון אומאָפּהענגיקײט (Yiddish translation 1954) | הצהרת העצמאות של ארצות־הברית (Hebrew translation 1945)The text of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and its signatories in English, with a Yiddish translation published in 1954. . . . 📜 פָּרָשַׁת בָּלָק | Parashat Balaq (Numbers 22:2-25:9), color-coded according to its narrative layersThe text of parashat Balaq, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . . 📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Balaq (Numbers 22:2-25:9): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len FellmanA Torah reading of Parashat Balaq in English translation, transtropilized. . . . 📜 פָּרָשַׁת פִּינְחָס | Parashat Pinḥas (Numbers 25:10-30:1), color-coded according to its narrative layersThe text of parashat Pinḥas, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . . Tags: 33rd century A.M., 6th century B.C.E., annual Torah reading cycle, the daughters of Tselofḥad, Midian, mythopoesis, Naming names, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, פרשות parashot, פינחס Pinḥas, redaction criticism, supplementary hypothesis, the Plains of Moav Contributor(s): Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'P', Masoretic layer 'H' and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) 📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Pinḥas (Numbers 25:10-30:1): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len FellmanA Torah reading of Parashat Pinḥas in English translation, transtropilized. . . . 📜 פָּרָשַׁת מַטּוֹת | Parashat Matōt (Numbers 30:2-32:42), color-coded according to its narrative layersThe text of parashat Matot, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . . Tags: 33rd century A.M., 6th century B.C.E., annual Torah reading cycle, מטות Matot, Midian, mythopoesis, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, פרשות parashot, redaction criticism, supplementary hypothesis, the Plains of Moav Contributor(s): Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'P', Masoretic layer 'H' and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) 📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Matōt (Numbers 30:2-32:42): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len FellmanA Torah reading of Parashat Matot in English translation, transtropilized. . . . 📜 פָּרָשַׁת מַסְעֵי | Parashat Mas’ei (Numbers 33:1-36:13), color-coded according to its narrative layersThe text of parashat Masei, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . . Tags: 33rd century A.M., 6th century B.C.E., annual Torah reading cycle, the daughters of Tselofḥad, מסעי Masei, מטות Matot, midbar quest, mythopoesis, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, פרשות parashot, redaction criticism, supplementary hypothesis Contributor(s): Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'P', Masoretic layer 'H' and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) 📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Mas’ei (Numbers 33:1-36:13): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len FellmanA Torah reading of Parashat Mas’ei in English translation, transtropilized. . . . 💬 הפטרה לשבת חזון | Haftarah Reading for Parashat Devarim (Shabbat Ḥazon, Isaiah 1:1-27), translated by Isaac Gantwerk MayerOn Shabbat Ḥazon, the Shabbat before Tisha b’Av, many Ashkenazi communities have a custom to read most of the haftarah (Isaiah 1:1-27) in Eikha trop, the cantillation used for the Book of Lamentations. There are many distinct customs, but one of the most common reads verses at the beginning and end in standard haftarah trop, as well as several verses in the middle, selected for their more hopeful message. This edition of the haftarah for Shabbat Ḥazon, along with its new translation, has the verses recited in Eikha trop marked in blue and the verses in haftarah trop in black. . . . | ||
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