January 2022 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Prayer Book [for] New Year and Day of Atonement, Abridged for Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States (National Jewish Welfare Board 1941)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), David de Sola Pool and National Jewish Welfare Board
Categories:	Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah, Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim
Tags:	20th century C.E., military, 58th century A.M., World War II, American Jewry of the United States
	An abridged maḥzor prepared for use of Jewish military personnel serving in the armed forces of the United States in advance of World War II, and printed by the Jewish Publication Society. . . .

Abridged Prayer Book for Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States (National Jewish Welfare Board 1941)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Eugene Kohn, David de Sola Pool, Solomon B. Freehof and National Jewish Welfare Board
Categories:	Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim
Tags:	20th century C.E., military, 58th century A.M., World War II, American Jewry of the United States
	An abridged siddur prepared for use of Jewish military personnel serving in the armed forces of the United States in advance of World War II, and printed by the Jewish Publication Society. . . .

Ministering to the Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States: Prayers for the Sick, Military Funeral Service, and Memorial Service (National Jewish Welfare Board 1942)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), David de Sola Pool, Aryeh Lev and National Jewish Welfare Board
Categories:	Rabbi Manuals
Tags:	20th century C.E., military, 58th century A.M., World War II, American Jewry of the United States
	A pamphlet for for United States military chaplains prepared by Chaplain Aryeh Lev under the direction of Rabbi David de Sola Pool for the Jewish Welfare Board during World War II. compiled for the use of United States personnel in the Armed Services. . . .

Prayer Book for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (National Jewish Welfare Board 1958)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and National Jewish Welfare Board
Categories:	Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim
Tags:	20th century C.E., military, 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States
	A trans-denominational prayer book compiled for the use of United States personnel in the Armed Services. . . .

A General Prayer for Adult Transitions, by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

Contributor(s):	Elliot Kukla
Categories:	Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags:	medical treatment, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., transition, gender transition
	“A Prayer for Transitions” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla. He writes that this prayer was written “for all adult transitions including gender as well as things like starting medication.” . . .

Blessings for Gender Transitioning, by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

Contributor(s):	Elliot Kukla
Categories:	Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags:	transgender, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., gender identity, gender transition
	“Blessings for Gender Transitioning” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and first published on Ritualwell in 2013. . . .

A Prayer of Healing for Mental Illness, by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

Contributor(s):	Elliot Kukla
Categories:	Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags:	21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Distress, English vernacular prayer, wrestling
	“A Prayer of Healing for Mental Illness” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla for the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center and was first published in Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 91. . . .

Prayer on the Occasion of a Premature Birth, by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

Contributor(s):	Elliot Kukla
Categories:	Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Tags:	Parents blessing children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., infants, prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, childbirth
	“Blessing for a Premature Birth” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and was first published in Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 48. . . .

Asher Yatsar (The One Who Forms), by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

Contributor(s):	Elliot Kukla
Categories:	Birkhot haShaḥar, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)
Tags:	excretion, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אשר יצר Asher Yatsar, Bathroom Prayer, Body as Society, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical asher yatsar
	“Asher Yatzar (The One Who Forms): a prayer of gratitude for our bodies as transgender, nonbinary, intersex people, and everybody else” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and adapted from the blessing known by its incipit “Asher Yatsar” or “the bathroom blessing” traditionally recited after excretion of waste. The blessing is also recited as part of the birkhot hashaḥar complex of blessings recited upon waking up and becoming active. Rabbi Kukla’s blessing was first published in Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 32. . . .

Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus | Prayer on Entering the House of God, by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846) translated by Miriam Wertheimer (1852)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Miriam Wertheimer (translation), Emily Kesselman (art & transcription) and Meïr haLevi Letteris
Categories:	Entering Sacred Spaces
Tags:	19th century C.E., English Translation, entering, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry
	“Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus” was written by Meir Letteris and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer…. In the 1846 and 1857 printings, it appears on p. 1. The English translation here was made by Miriam Werheimer and for unknown reasons misattributed to Wolfgang Wessely in Devotional exercises for the use of Jewish women, on public and domestic occasions (1852). –Aharon Varady . . .

תהלים ע״ט | Psalms 79, translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), the Masoretic Text and Asaph ben Berechiah
Categories:	Tehilim Book 3 (Psalms 73–89), Imminent Communal Danger & Distress
Tags:	Psalms 79, Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim (Colleyville Texas), Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
	A translation of Psalms 79 in response to the hostage taking at Beth Elohim in Colleyville, Texas. . . .

Haftarah for MLK Shabbat: Four excerpts from a “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963), cantillated by Rabbi David Evan Markus (Tu biShvat 5782)

Contributor(s):	David Evan Markus and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Categories:	Martin Luther King Jr. Day Readings, Modern Miscellany
Tags:	United States, social justice, civil rights, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Hafatarot, Cantillized readings in English, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
	This is a haftarah comprised of excerpts from a “letter from a Birmingham jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. (16 April 1963). The haftarah was cantillated by Rabbi David Evan Markus for a public reading on MLK Shabbat (the sabbath preceding MLK Day). . . .

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Moshe Feller on 11 January 2022

Contributor(s):	United States Congressional Record and Moshe Feller
Categories:	United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags:	תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, Senate, ḤaBaD Lubavitch, 117th Congress
	The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 11 January 2022. . . .

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