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2021 —⟶ May 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 April 2021 📅 June 2021 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in May 2021 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? Invocation for a Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A pre-Shavuot prayer in the shadow of the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis. A prayer for the observance of Memorial Day in the United States. There are blessings for beautiful vistas, and there are blessings for powerful weather. But is there a blessing for giant swarms of bugs? Certainly! There just wasn’t a kavvanah for it… yet. Inspired by the appearance of Brood X in May 2021, this is a meditation and blessing for the unique experience of seeing an enormous number of non-dangerous insects. Cicadas are NOT a plague — they don’t eat crops or spread disease, but they do help revitalize the soil and keep forest ecosystems healthy. As a natural part of the universal order, we should work to see the divinity and goodness in them, even if we might normally think of them as gross. A prayer for peace from the end of World War II. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A bilingual Hebrew-Ladino Sefaradi siddur from the Ottoman Empire. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Eastern Sefaradim, Ladino Translation, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, Ottoman Jewry Contributor(s): The African-American Christian spiritual adapted for a Pesaḥ song in Hebrew and English. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): One of the earliest bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the British Empire. One of the most prominent martyrs in the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648–1649 was the kabbalist and sage Yəḥiel Mikhel ben Eliezer ha-Kohen, known to posterity as the Martyr of Nemiryv. This unique poetic El Malei Raḥamim was said in his honor, and communities that fast on 20 Sivan still recite it to this day. Categories: Tags: 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Chmielnicki massacres of 1648–1649, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, סליחות səliḥot Contributor(s): The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with a creative English translation. Categories: Tags: 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, interpretive translation, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): Ana is a poem for the first commandment, that discusses all that God did for the ancestors. “Ar’a Raqda,” a piyyut read directly before the Ten Commandments in the Targum, uses wedding imagery and language from the Shir haShirim to paint Sinai as a ḥuppah. The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Queen Elizabeth II. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, Queens Contributor(s): The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for King George VI. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, King George Ⅵ, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): Some Jewish communities, especially those in the region of the Four Lands, have a custom of fasting on the 20th of Sivan. This day has a full seliḥot service, commemorating a series of horrors that occurred on that day, most prominently the Chmielnicki (Khmielnetsky) massacres of 1648-49. But this poem was written for another horrific occurrence on 20 Sivan, the blood libel of Blois in 1171. This was the first time the accusation of ritual murder was ever made against the Jews of France, but it wasn’t the last. This seliḥah poem, written by Hillel ben Jacob of Bonn, starts with the dramatic accusation that God has abandoned the people Israel, continuing by listing those who died in myriad horrid ways, and ending with several citations from the apocalyptic final chapter of the book of Joel. Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Blois Incident of 1171, קינות Ḳinōt, סליחות səliḥot Contributor(s): The haftarah for the second day of Shavuot, Ḥabakkuk 2:20-3:19, interspersed with a cantillated text of the Targum Yonatan ben Uzziel. Since Targum Yonatan is a bit more drash-heavy than Targum Onkelos, it is translated separately as well. The haftarah reading includes the piyyut Yetsiv Pitgam, with an acrostic rhyming translation of the poem, with the second-to-last verse restored to its rightful place, as well as a concluding paragraph for the meturgeman to recite, as found in the Maḥzor Vitry. Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Aramaic, הפטרות haftarot, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, תרגום targum, transtropilation, יציב פתגם Yetsiv Pitgam Contributor(s): The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of Jewish congregations worldwide. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of one’s own congregation. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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