“Coal Miners’ Prayer” (CCAR 1924)

This prayer by an unknown author is first found in Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book (Newly Revised) (1924), p. 45. (It also appears on the same page of the 1940 edition of the “newly revised” UPB.) The prayer is included as a third variation of a Reform synagogue’s Shabbat evening service, in the Amidah before the silent meditation. Rabbi Michael Satz of Temple B’nai Or (Morristown, New Jersey) affectionately refers to it as the “Coal Miner’s Prayer.”

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, physical labor

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Unknown, Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book, Newly Revised (CCAR 1924)

Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book, Newly Revised (CCAR 1924), a Reform movement prayerbook disseminated by Congregation Emanu-El in New York City in 1924, was the first publication of the “Newly Revised” edition of the Union Prayerbook, published as a complete prayerbook in 1940.

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Shabbat Siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement

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Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]