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September 2020 This poem was composed at the end of August 2020 / Elul 5780 as part of Rabbi Katy Allen’s Earth Etudes for Elul 5780. . . . The major themes of the Rosh haShanah musaf liturgy, color coded with the three central blessings of the service presented comparatively in parallel columns. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer is not a comprehensive list of every single sin we sinned, every error we erred, every mark we missed. The original Al Ḥeyt is intended to show us the roots of all failures, to dig beneath how we harm, to see where that hurt came from. We follow these trails together, not absolved from our own repairs, but never alone in struggles to uproot, to propagate new ways of being ourselves, new ways of being ourselves, of being together. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., על חטא Al Ḥeyt, paraliturgical Al Ḥet, paraliturgical vidui, וידוי vidui, וידוים viduyim Contributor(s): A reading for the New Year’s Day for Animals — Rosh haShanah laBehemot — on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., animal protection, animal welfare, animals, בלק Balaq, domesticated animals, giving voice to the voiceless, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim Contributor(s): This acrostic poetic form of Birkat haMazon was written for the se’udah mafseqet (pre-fast meal) before Yom Kippur, in the manner of the poetic Birkat haMazon variants recorded in the Cairo Geniza. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket Contributor(s): Many communities have a custom of reciting “simanim” on the night of Rosh haShanah — invocations on a series of foods punning over their Hebrew or Aramaic names. This is an assortment of common simanim, along with English loose translations that preserve the punning aspects of the foods. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., festive meals, punning, סגולות segulot, סעודות seudot, סימנים simanim, symbolic foods, teḥinot during meals, teḥinot over foods Contributor(s): A soulful, playful, embodied, grounded poem for announcing the new moon of Tishrei, for Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei (otherwise known as Rosh HaShanah) and for the whole month. . . . Two kavvanot, one for before and one for after casting away in a Tashlikh ritual. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, תשליך tashlikh Contributor(s): A prayer for children on the first day of a new year of school. . . . A prayer for children at the onset of the school year. . . . A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. . . . Categories: Tags: 2020 coronavirus pandemic, 2020 United States racial reckoning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai, Prayers as poems, September 2020 Western United States wildfires Contributor(s): A prayer disseminated by the Masorti Movement in Israel in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in Israel and around the world. . . . “A Prayer for the New Year (5781)” was first published by Rabbi Menachem Creditor online at his Facebook Page and shared with the Open Siddur Project through our Facebook discussion group. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, North America, Prayers for the New Year, תקון tiqqun, United States, weariness Contributor(s): A prayer for health and safety in public, communal prayer during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. . . . Categories: Tags: 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Maale Gilboa, ישראל Yisrael Contributor(s): A prayer for teachers at the onset of the school year. . . . A prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor reflecting on the challenges of the year 2020 up till Rosh haShanah. . . . A liturgy of symbolic foods exclusively for the eve of the Hebrew new year 5781. A traditional egalitarian Hebrew text being a newly revised liturgy with contemporary text and additional prayers suitable to our perilous and worrisome state at the beginning of this second year of the pandemic and including a modern English translation together with learned annotations and guidance for observance in the home. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., COVID-19 coronavirus, festive meals, סגולות segulot, סעודות seudot, סימנים simanim Contributor(s): The first bilingual and interdenominational prayerbook prepared for soldiers and sailors in the United States Army & Navy in World War I. . . . A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by the Hebrew Publishing Company. . . . A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer, United States Contributor(s): | ||
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