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2020 —⟶ Page 8 [Prayer before] the Chamber of Commerce and Civics [of the Oranges & Maplewood, New Jersey], a Cold War prayer by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1950)A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . . Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty 📖 תפלה לדוד (נוסח איטלקי מנהג הרומית) | Tefilah l’David: Preghiere di Rito Italiano, a bilingual Hebrew-Italian prayerbook compiled by the chief Rabbi of Rome, David Prato (1949)A bilingual Hebrew-Italian prayerbook compiled by the chief Rabbi of Rome according to the Nusaḥ Italḳi. . . . Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim Closing Prayer for New Year’s Day, adapted by Mordecai Kaplan & Eugene Kohn from a prayer by Members of the Faculty of the Colgate Divinity School (1947)This “Closing Prayer” for New Year’s Day was adapted by Mordecai Kaplan and Eugene Kohn from a prayer first published by unnamed “Members of the Faculty” of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (The Colgate-Rochester Divinity School Bulletin, “Prayers for the New Year,” vol. 19 no. 2 (1947), pp. 65-71). Kaplan & Kohn’s adapted prayer essentially contains excerpts from the prayer of the Faculty (excluding any with explicit Christian content). The adapted prayer was published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 25-26. –Aharon Varady . . . Categories: 🌐 Gregorian New Year's Day (January 1st) This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . Categories: 🇺🇳 United Nations, 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) This prayer for the country is found in the Siddur Sephat Emeth, which was published by the venerable Rödelheim publishing house in Frankfurt in 1938. This was probably the last siddur ever published in pre-Holocaust Germany. This prayer is full of pathos and yearning, and in a time of rising government-sponsored antisemitism worldwide it’s worth keeping in mind. . . . A morning prayer for young girls composed in Magyar and published in 1930, with English translation. . . . Categories: Additional Morning Prayers A prayer for lifegiving sustenance. . . . A prayer for a sibling embarking on a journey to another land or lands. . . . Categories: Travel A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . A prayer for intra-national peace during the interwar period (after World War I). . . . Categories: 🇺🇳 United Nations, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) 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 | ||
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