November 2020 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Contributor(s):	Lauren Grabelle Herrmann
Categories:	Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
Tags:	United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States General Election 2020
	A prayer for the day after the US day of elections that all votes be counted. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation) and Shai Held
Categories:	Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
Tags:	21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., 45th President of the United States, United States General Election 2020, Needing Vocalization
	A Prayer on US Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd 2020. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (English translation), Yaacov Maoz and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat
Tags:	פיוטים piyyutim, prophylactic, apotropaic prayers of protection, Aramaic translation, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Suret)
	The popular piyyut for welcoming the Shabbat, in Hebrew with translations in Assyrian-Aramaic and English. . . .

Soliloquy of Yehudis, by Moreh Yehudis Fishman

Contributor(s):	Yehudis Fishman
Categories:	Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
Tags:	Judith, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	A soliloquy in the voice of Judith. . . .

A Prayer for Veterans Day, by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, USN (Retired)

Contributor(s):	Arnold E. Resnicoff
Categories:	Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer
	A virtual prayer for Veterans Day 2020. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Leo Jung
Categories:	Government & Country, United States of America
Tags:	20th century C.E., United States, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer
	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 Norman Salit (1927)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Norman Salit
Categories:	Government & Country, United States of America
Tags:	20th century C.E., United States, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Americanism
	A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Robert Henry Charles (translation)
Categories:	Second Temple Period, Ḥanukkah Readings
Tags:	anti-predatory, חנוך Ḥanokh (Enoch), pre-rabbinic judaism, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., mytho-historical chronicles, early Judaism, deuterocanonical works
	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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon Varady (translation/Hebrew), Leslie Weatherhead and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Learning, Study, and School, Torah Study
Tags:	20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers before Torah Study, authority vs. integrity
	A prayer for intellectual honesty before study. . . .

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)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Midrash Aggadah
Tags:	Angels, prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, epical narrative as ward, historiola, geonic period, origin stories, Angels of Healing
	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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
Tags:	Angels, Late Antiquity, prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, epical narrative as ward, cold iron, iron in folklore, historiola, Angels of Healing
	A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . .

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