 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This poem was composed at the end of August 2020 / Elul 5780 as part of Rabbi Katy Allen’s Earth Etudes for Elul 5780. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The major themes of the Rosh haShanah musaf liturgy, color coded with the three central blessings of the service presented comparatively in parallel columns. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A reading for the New Year’s Day for Animals — Rosh haShanah laBehemot — on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Two kavvanot, one for before and one for after casting away in a Tashlikh ritual. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for children on the first day of a new year of school. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for children at the onset of the school year. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer disseminated by the Masorti Movement in Israel in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in Israel and around the world. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for health and safety in public, communal prayer during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for teachers at the onset of the school year. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor reflecting on the challenges of the year 2020 up till Rosh haShanah. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The first bilingual and interdenominational prayerbook prepared for soldiers and sailors in the United States Army & Navy in World War I. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by the Hebrew Publishing Company. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An authoritative edition of the Seder Teḥinot (Seyder Tkhines) from the esteemed Rödelheim publishing house. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Karaite song for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Prayer for the mitsvot of kindling the lights of Shabbat from the Teḥinah of the Three Gates by Sarah bat Tovim (18th century). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 55th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, memento mori, erev yom kippur, feldmesten, תחינות tkhines, ḳever mesten, candles, ימים נוראים yamim noraim, תחינות teḥinot This is the tkhine for candlemaking on erev Yom Kippur as found in Sarah bat Tovim’s Tkhine of Three Gates, likely written by her sometime in the early 18th century. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Prayer for the mitsvot of preparing Ḥallah from the Teḥinah of the Three Gates by Sarah bat Tovim (18th century). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An early 17th century song for Yom T’ruah (Rosh haShanah) by Karaite Ḥakham, Zeraḥ ben Nathan of Troki. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An early 17th century song for Yom T’ruah (Rosh haShanah) by Karaite Ḥakham, Zeraḥ ben Nathan of Troki. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A pizmon in the nusaḥ hasepharadim recited at Seliḥot during the monh of Elul and Yom Kippur. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A seliḥah for the Fast of Gedalyah, attributed to Rav Saadia Gaon. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of the alphabetic mesostic piyyut, Hayom, according to the Italian nusaḥ. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A new translation of Psalms 79 for the 17th of Tamuz fast day of mourning. . . . |