 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Four morning blessings inspired from traditional blessing in the Birkhot haShaḥar and Shaḥarit services. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the ingathering of Jews from the Diaspora to Erets Yisrael. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A paraliturgical translation of “k’Gavna” — a portion of the Zohar on parashat Terumah read before Ma’ariv in the ḥassidic-sefardic nusaḥ. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The “minor tractate” Soferim is one of our best sources for early liturgical practice. It is the oldest known source for multiple practices still followed today, such as the blessing for the haftarah. Such luminaries as the Vilna Gaon considered it a vital work. But some of its practices are… well, odd. There are customs in Tractate Soferim which are found nowhere else in classical rabbinics — blessings for the recitation of books in Writings other than the scrolls, a three-year cycle of Torah readings, and a custom to divide the scrolls in half when reading them. This service is constructed based on the descriptions and passages of Tractate Soferim, mostly following the Gra’s edition. In some ways it may be very familiar, especially to Ashkenazim, but in others it is a fascinating glimpse into a heretofore lost practice of Judaism. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: In all modern communities, the standard practice is that on the three Shabbatot before the Ninth of Av and the seven after it the standard haftarah is replaced. Before the Ninth of Av they are replaced with haftarot of rebuke, from Jeremiah and the opening of Isaiah, and after they are replaced with haftarot of consolation from the later parts of Isaiah. Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, though, preserves a very different custom, one where each one of those Torah portions has an associated haftarah, related not to the calendar but to the parashah itself. Here the editor has compiled a list of these haftarah readings, along with brief notes to explain their connection with the parashah. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An alternative weekday aliyah. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A paraliturgical translation of the opening paragraph of the Shema. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for focusing one’s mind and intention during the separation of dough in the preparation of halah before Shabbat. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A companion to the classic piyyut, Yigdal. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An opening prayer for divine communication and closeness. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A summary of the lineage of the Mesorah, as it passed through generations of Israelite and Jewish women. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for safe travel. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for safe travel. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A short prayer of gratitude in the midst of a global pandemic and civil unrest. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The argument that “statues preserve our heritage” is not one the halakhah tolerates, especially when the statues are celebrating the perpetrators of horrible atrocities. Here’s a service for those interested in fulfilling the Biblical commandment of destroying idolatrous statues. #BLM . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the State of Israel during conflicts over sovereignty and dispossession. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 July 2000. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 March 1998. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 March 1995. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 April 1994. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A collection of public, pulpit prayers, ceremonial, and other prayers to supplement the Siddur. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a sibling embarking on a journey to another land or lands. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for intra-national peace during the interwar period (after World War I). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer on behalf of one’s congregation and the worldwide community of Israelites. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A collection of prayers for Jewish girls by the chief rabbi of Buda. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A collection of prayers in Magyar for Jewish women composed by the rabbi of Veszprém, later, the chief rabbi of Buda. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for Tisha b’Av. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a woman struggling with a life-threatening illness or injury. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of gratitude for a woman who has survived dangerous circumstances. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for one’s parent or parents during Yizkor. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a daughter for mourning on the yortseit of one or both of her parents. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of an orphan after the death of one or both of her parents. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a woman experiencing desperation under difficult circumstances. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a woman following the birth of her infant child. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for when traveling conditions become perilous on an ocean voyage. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a “young maiden” — a girl before her bat mitsvah. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A mother’s prayer for an ill infant or child. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a woman and mother who has lost her husband and is contemplating desperate circumstances. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman preparing herself on Erev Rosh haShanah. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman celebrating the first yontef of Sukkot. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman celebrating Shmini Atseret. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman pleading for atonement on Yom Kippurim. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a pregnant woman before she goes into labor. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “Evening Prayer for Children” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman pleading for atonement in the final service of Yom Kippur at sunset. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “Morning Prayer for Children” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “Prayer for the Close of the Sabbath” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman mounrning at the grave of her child. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “[Prayer] For the Sabbath Day” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a woman contemplating her relationship with her husband in marriage. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman celebrating Purim. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman visiting the grave of her brother or sister. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a woman celebrating the final days of Passover yontef. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a daughter mounrning at the grave of her mother. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: In honor of Juneteenth, the holiday of American liberation, this is a translation of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation into Biblical Hebrew. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A supplicatory prayer for mourning on Tish’a b’Av. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A supplicatory prayer on behalf of parents by their child. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for travel offered during an ocean voyage. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a wife whose spouse is away from home, travelling. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: storm, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry, thanksgiving, 19th century C.E., travel by water, ocean, prayers on ships, מודים Modim A prayer offered after a difficult ocean voyage. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer offered during an ocean voyage during dangerous inclement weather conditions. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A supplicatory prayer on a general fast day. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A meditation on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippurim. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: cemetery prayers, memento mori, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket, 19th century C.E., erev yom kippur, ימים נוראים yamim noraim, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry A prayer offered on erev Rosh haShanah or Yom Kippur to visit the local Jewish cemetery. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a mother on her daughter’s wedding day. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a mother on her son’s wedding day. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A paraliturgical prayer for the New Month offered on Shabbat Mevorkhim. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A birkat hamazon for children. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for children before school. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A child’s prayer for the well-being of their parents. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer offered by the parents of a Bar or Bat Mitsvah after they are confirmed in a public ceremony. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a sister mourning at the grave of her brother. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a person suffering under grievous injuries and dying. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a person dying and imagining their possible afterlife. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A collection of teḥinot translated, adapted, and republished in English. This is one of the first collections of teḥinot published for an English speaking audience. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of a mother grieving over the death of her child. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer offered by the tutors of a Bar or Bat Mitsvah after they are confirmed in a public ceremony. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer reflecting on the meaning of the Sabbath day. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the fifth day of the week. . . . |