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2020 —⟶ August 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 July 2020 📅 September 2020 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in August 2020 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This is a poetic text for Birkat haMazon, signed with an alphabetical acrostic and the name of the author, to be recited on the first of Elul. It celebrates the variety of God’s creation as exemplified by the natural diversity of species, as well as alluding to the livestock tithes traditionally assigned on the first of Elul. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Raḥamana piyyut is a litany beloved in Sephardic and Mizraḥi communities, a standard part of their Seliḥoth services throughout the month of Elul and the days of repentance. Traditionally it cites a list of Biblical men (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Pinhas, David, and Solomon) and asks to be remembered for their merit and their covenants, for the sake of “Va-yaŋabor” — the first word of Exodus 34:6, the introduction to the verses of the Thirteen Attributes recited in Seliḥoth services. This text instead uses Biblical women (Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel, Serach, Miriam, Deborah, Ruth, Hannah, and Esther). Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aramaic, Biblical Women, egalitarian, פיוטים piyyuṭim, סליחות səliḥot, traditional egalitarian Contributor(s): A blessing for announcing the new moon of Elul, for Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, and for the whole month. A poem of kindness, rootedness and transformation as we enter into a time of turning and returning. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אלול elul, English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): Hineni – the leader’s prayer that opens the High Holy Days Mussaf has always been a challenge for me. While a dramatic moment in the service, it always seemed a little *too* grand to represent a prayer of humility. This is a version of it I wrote in an attempt to make myself more comfortable at that moment. –Rabbi Oren Steinitz The full text of Rabbi Lauren Berkun’s benediction offered at the end of the third day of the Democratic National Convention, 20 August 2020. An adaptation of a short portion of David Einhorn’s work, Olat Tamid, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin. Olah Ḥadashah—”a new offering”—is, he writes, “an attempt to bring this assurance into the present. Using modern English, gender-neutral language, and including the matriarchs in the Amidah, I hope to make a little sliver of Einhorn’s genius accessible to today’s Jews. In so doing, I hope we can find renewed purpose in our fight for justice, rooted in renewed appreciation of Judaism’s moral imperatives.” Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An adaptation of the prayer Elohai Neshama in honor of a bar mitsvah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A bilingual Hebrew-Italian prayerbook compiled by the chief Rabbi of Rome according to the Nusaḥ Italḳi. This prayer for the country is found in the Siddur Sephat Emeth, which was published by the venerable Rödelheim publishing house in Frankfurt in 1938. This was probably the last siddur ever published in pre-Holocaust Germany. This prayer is full of pathos and yearning, and in a time of rising government-sponsored antisemitism worldwide it’s worth keeping in mind. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A “provisional edition” of the Reform movement’s Union Prayer Book for six morning services (containing additional material) for Reform Synagogues with daily morning services. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The first edition of the Union Hymnal by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part one), the official prayerbook of the Reform Movement in the United States of America until its revision. The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part two), a maḥzor for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. A siddur in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag America. A siddur supplement compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise containing teḥinot in English for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, North America, North American Jewry, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): A collection of hymns, psalms, and paraliturgical prayers for festivals and other events in German and English compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa. Categories: Hymn-Books & Religious poetry, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Pulpit & Ceremonial collections of prayers Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, North America, North American Jewry Contributor(s): A maḥzor for Yom Kippur in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag America. A maḥzor for Rosh haShanah in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa. A siddur in Hebrew with German translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa. For Yom Kipur, the third volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837. | ||
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