November 2020 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Veterans Day Prayer at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, USN (Ret.)

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This Veterans Day Prayer was first published by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, USN (Retired), on his twitter page. He writes, “Because of COVID this is the first Veterans Day in a long time I am not part of a ceremony — and I know that’s the situation for many fellow vets. So I wrote it yesterday to share today as a virtual prayer for Veterans Day 2020.” On 11 November 2022, Rabbi Resnicoff offered the expanded revision of this prayer as offered above at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. . . .

Soliloquy of Yehudis, by Morah Yehudis Fishman

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Yehudis Fishman

A soliloquy in the voice of Judith. . . .

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (שְׁלָמָא אֵילוֹכוּן)‏ | Shalom Aleikhem (Shlama Elokhun), Aramaic translation by Yaacov Maoz

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Aharon N. Varady (translation), Yaacov Maoz and Unknown Author(s)

The popular piyyut for welcoming the Shabbat, in Hebrew with translations in Assyrian-Aramaic and English. . . .

A Prayer for Today (US Election Day 2020), by Rabbi Shai Held

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Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation) and Shai Held

A Prayer on US Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd 2020. . . .

Prayer for Every Voice to be Heard and All Votes to be Counted, by Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann (2020)

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Lauren Grabelle Herrmann

A prayer for the day after the US day of elections that all votes be counted. . . .

A Scholar’s Prayer for Intellectual Honesty, adapted from a prayer quoted by Dr. Leslie Weatherhead (1951)

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Leslie Weatherhead, Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

A prayer for intellectual honesty before study. . . .

Prayer for the Government of the United States of America, by Rabbi Norman Salit (1927)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Norman Salit

A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . .

Prayer for the Government of the United States of America, by Rabbi Leo Jung (1927)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Leo Jung

A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . .

מה אלו | “Who are these?” — the Origin of the Angels of Healing: Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Semanglof, as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira (ca. late first millennium)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

The origin story of Lilith as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira. . . .

היסטוריולה של סממית וסידרוס | Historiola of Smamit and Sideros, a reconstruction based on Amulet 15 & Amulet Bowl 12a

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . .

סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ | The Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 83-90), with Aramaic Fragments and translations in Ge’ez and English

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Robert Henry Charles (translation)

A mytho-historical chronicle of the story of humanity and Israel up until the Maccabean revolt depicted as a fable through a dream vision of Ḥanokh. . . .