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2020 —⟶ Page 4 A prayer on behalf of one’s congregation and the worldwide community of Israelites. . . . A religious Zionist national anthem composed by Rav Kook in response to the secular Zionist Hatikvah. . . . 📖 Abridged Prayer Book for Jews in the Army and Navy of the United States (National Jewish Welfare Board 1917)The first bilingual and interdenominational prayerbook prepared for soldiers and sailors in the United States Army & Navy in World War I. . . . Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim A song in Yiddish bemoaning the suffering brought about in an epidemic. . . . Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics A tkhine in the event of an epidemic. . . . Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics הֵצִיץ וָמֵת | He Gazed and Died, a poem on the death of the sage Shimon ben Azzai by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1916)A poem describing the ascent and death of the Tannaitic sage, Shimon ben Azzai. . . . Categories: Dying Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ascent, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, midbar quest, shimon ben azzai Contributor(s): Ruth Nevo (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by the Hebrew Publishing Company. . . . Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers Ima a királyért és a hazáért | Prayer for the King and the Homeland [of Hungary], by Rabbi Simon Hevesi (1911)A paraliturgical prayer for the government presented opposite Hanoten T’shuah in Rabbi Simon Hevesi’s siddur Ateret Shalom v’Emet (1911). . . . תחנה פון אײן שװאנגער אשה זאל ניט מפיל זיין | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman that She Not Miscarry (1910)A prayer for a pregnant woman that she not suffer a miscarriage. . . . Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) תחנה פאר אײן אִשָׁה װאָס דארף האָבּין אײַן קינד | Tkhine for a Woman who is about to Have a Child (1910)A prayer for a pregnant woman whose childbirth is immanent. . . . Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) א תחנה פאר א אשה מעוברת אז זיא גײט צו קינד | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman when She is about to Give Birth (1910)A prayer for a pregnant woman approaching her childbirth. . . . Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) Az uralkodóház és a hazáért | Prayer for the King [Franz Joseph Ⅰ] and the [Hungarian] Homeland, by Rabbi Gyula Fischer (1908)Modeled after the prayer Hanoten T’shuah, this patriotic paraliturgical prayer for the Kingdom of Hungary by Rabbi Gyula Fischer was published in the prayerbook for Jewish women, Rachel: imák zsidó nők számára (1908). . . . A prayerbook for women in Hebrew and Magyar. . . . Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, teḥinot in Magyar Contributor(s): József Patai, Gyula Fischer, Gabor Weisz and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) 📖 סדר תפלות ישראל (רפורמי) | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship – Morning Services (CCAR 1907)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: Morning siddurim A collection of prayers for Jewish girls by the chief rabbi of Buda. . . . Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers 📖 סדר התפלות ליום כפור (מנהג הספרדים) | Seder haTefilot l’Yom Kippur, edited and revised by Moses Gaster (1904, amended 1934)A bilingual Hebrew-English maḥzor for Yom Kippur, nusaḥ sefarad, with a translation for Rabbi David de Aaron de Sola, revised and edited by Moses Gaster, amended by Rabbi David Bueno de Mesquita. . . . Categories: Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim 📖 סדר התפלות לראש השנה (מנהג הספרדים) | Seder haTefilot l’Rosh haShanah, edited and revised by Moses Gaster (1903)A bilingual Hebrew-English maḥzor for Rosh haShanah, nusaḥ sefarad, with a translation for Rabbi David de Aaron de Sola, revised and edited by Moses Gaster. . . . Categories: Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah Contributor(s): Moses Gaster, David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) יָהּ עֶזְרָתִי מִן שְׁמַיָּא | Yah Ezrati Min Shemayya, a piyyut by Ḥayyim Shaul Abboud (ca. 20th c.)A 20th century piyyut by Ḥayyim Shaul Aboud. . . . Categories: Morning Baqashot A popular 20th century piyyut. . . . Categories: Morning Baqashot אֲשׁוֹרֵר שִׁירָה | Ashorer Shirah, a piyyut in honor of the Torah by Ḥakham Raphael Baruch Toledano (ca. 20th c.)A piyyut in honor of the Torah. . . . Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation), Raphael Barukh Toledano and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) A collection of prayers in Magyar for Jewish women composed by the rabbi of Veszprém, later, the chief rabbi of Buda. . . . Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers The first edition of the Union Hymnal by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. . . . Categories: Hymn-Books & Religious poetry A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . . Categories: Government & Country, Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America 📖 סדר תפלות ישראל (רפורמי) | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship – Part I: The Sabbath, Three Festivals, and Weekdays (CCAR 1895)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. . . . Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim 📖 סדר תפלות ישראל (רפורמי) | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship – Part II: New Year’s Day, Day of Atonement (CCAR 1894)The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part two), a maḥzor for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. . . . תפלה על המגפה שתעצר | Prayer for Cessation of the Disease Now Raging, by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster (1892)A prayer for the end of a cholera epidemic written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster in 1892. . . . Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics An authoritative edition of the Seder Teḥinot (Seyder Tkhines) from the esteemed Rödelheim publishing house. . . . Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers Kuando el rey Nimrod (When Nimrod was King), a song relating the story of Avraham & the Furnace (ca. 1890)The sephardic folk-song “Kuando el rey Nimrod” in Ladino with English translation. . . . Categories: Se'udat Yom Shabbat The poem, Hatiḳvah, in its original composition by Naphtali Herz Imber, later chosen and adapted to become the national anthem of the State of Israel, with a full English translation, and the earliest, albeit abbreviated, Yiddish translation . . . 📖 תפלות בני ישורון (רפורמי) | The Daily Prayers for American Israelites, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (Minhag America, 1872)A siddur in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag America. . . . Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim 📖 תפלות בני ישורון (רפורמי) | Selected Prayers for Various Occasions in Life, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (Minhag America, 1872)A siddur supplement compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise containing teḥinot in English for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa. . . . Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers זֶה הֶעָפָר הָיָה פַּעַם הָאִישׁ | This Dust was Once the Man, an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman (1871), Hebrew translation by Shimon Halkin (1952)An elegy by Walt Whitman for President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination, in English with Hebrew translation. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th) 📖 תפלות בני ישורון (רפורמי) | Hymns, Psalms & Prayers in English and German, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, et al (Minhag America, 1868)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 Prayer for the Anniversary of the Destruction of the Temple (תשעה באב), by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)A prayer for Tisha b’Av. . . . Categories: Tishah b'Av A prayer of a woman struggling with a life-threatening illness or injury. . . . Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving A prayer of gratitude for a woman who has survived dangerous circumstances. . . . Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving A prayer for one’s parent or parents during Yizkor. . . . Categories: Mourning A prayer of a daughter for mourning on the yortseit of one or both of her parents. . . . Categories: Mourning A prayer of an orphan after the death of one or both of her parents. . . . Categories: Mourning A prayer of a woman experiencing desperation under difficult circumstances. . . . Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving A prayer of a woman following the birth of her infant child. . . . Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling. . . . A prayer for when traveling conditions become perilous on an ocean voyage. . . . Categories: Travel A prayer of a “young maiden” — a girl before her bat mitsvah. . . . Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers A mother’s prayer for an ill infant or child. . . . A prayer of a woman and mother who has lost her husband and is contemplating desperate circumstances. . . . Categories: Mourning A prayer for a woman preparing herself on Erev Rosh haShanah. . . . Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) A prayer for a woman celebrating the first yontef of Sukkot. . . . Categories: Sukkot A prayer for a woman celebrating Shmini Atseret. . . . Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah) A prayer for a woman pleading for atonement on Yom Kippurim. . . . Categories: Yom Kippur | ||
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