 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An al hanissim prayer for the State of Israel’s Day of Independence. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Birkat haMazon with additions for the pre-Fast meal of Tisha b’Av . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: There are all sorts of customs associated with weddings in Judaism. But one custom that has been practiced for a long time and deserves a comeback is the additions to the Torah reading for Shabbat Kallah. Shabbat Kallah, the Shabbat in the “Sheva Berakhot” week after the wedding, is in many Sephardic communities preferred over Shabbat Ḥatan, the aufruf Shabbat before the wedding. And in all sorts of communities across the Jewish world, there have been customs for specific readings for Shabbat Kallah, treating it as a Special Sabbath in its own right. Traditionally this special maftir and haftarah would recited by the groom (along with an Aramaic translator interpolating for the maftir). The maftir is from the story of Abraham’s servant tasked with finding a wife for Isaac, and the haftarah is from the book of Isaiah and compares a groom and bride to the relationship between God and Israel. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A blessing for announcing the new moon of Av, for Rosh Ḥodesh Av, and for the whole month. A poem of grieving and gentleness as part of collective liberation. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A short amidah for the Friday evening service for Shabbat. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A ḳinnah for humanity’s willful, negligent, and callous destruction of habitat and species known and unknown. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for women caught up in the torment of ‘get’ refusal from a husband who refuses to grant them the document required for a religious divorce. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An adaptation of the kinnah, “Eli Tsiyon v’Ar’eha,” Composed for Tisha B’Av 5780 in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A playful, expansive, embodied riff on “Hashiveinu Hashem eilecha v’nashuva, ḥadesh yameinu k’kedem.” Suitable for Tisha B’Av, Elul, the Days of Awe, and every day. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 October 2002. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 October 2002. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A song in Yiddish bemoaning the suffering brought about in an epidemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the 9th of Av, the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A paraliturgical prayer for cultivating humility modeled after the morning prayer, Ribon haOlamim. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of gratitude after a dangerous and distressing situation is resolved for the good. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for parnassah (livelihood) for someone impoverished or in danger of poverty. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer in severe distress. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer during an event of immanent communal danger and distress. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The sixth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1838. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A translation in German and English of the ḳinnah “Sha’ali Serufah ba-Esh.” . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A guide to the activities one might engage upon in every hour of the week corresponding with their ruling planet, numinous and cthonic power. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Selected verses from the book of ben Sira for a Seliḥot service . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The book of Barukh (also, Baruch and Barouch) in its reconstructed Hebrew vorlage from verse 1:1 till 3:8. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The haftarah reading for Parashat Balaq, in English translation, transtropilized. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The haftarah reading for Parashat Matot, in English translation, transtropilized. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The haftarah reading for Parashat Mas’ei, in English translation, transtropilized. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The haftarah reading for Tishah b’Av morning in English translation, transtropilized. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The haftarah reading for Parashat Pinḥas, in English translation, transtropilized. . . . |