 Contributor(s): An adaptation of El Malei Raḥamim for victims of the 7 October massacres, and for the soldiers and other security personnel fallen in its aftermath was prepared for the Yizkor services held on the 7th day of Passover 5754 (2024) by Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the IDF. The English translation was made by Ematai and published on their website and on social media. . . . Contributor(s): On Passover we end the prayers for rain that began on October 7, and begin the prayers for dew. The prayers end, but the war that began with the October 7 attack does not. Here is a reflection on that. . . . Contributor(s): This is an updated version of a chart that I have been creating and sharing for ten years. This grid for counting the omer includes the secular date for 2024 as well as Hebrew dates and the sefirot associated with each day of the omer. More information can be found on my website. . . . Contributor(s): In many communities, the practice of Yaḥats, or breaking the matsah before maggid, is done with liturgical and ritual additions. The additions included here are one practice out of many variants as found in the practice of Djerba, the island off the coast of Tunisia. . . . Contributor(s): A riff on the mitsvah to obliterate Amaleq in Parashat Zakhor, adapted to the horrors committed by HAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023. . . . Contributor(s): This “Blessing upon Observing a Solar Eclipse” was offered by Rabbi Colman Reabo on 8 April 2024, a day in which a total solar eclipse was witnessed across a wide swath of North America. . . . Contributor(s): This prayer for the well-being of the captives taken hostage by ḤAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023 was written by the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the State of Israel, David Lau, and shared by his office in the month preceding Pesaḥ 2024. The prayer is intended to be read at the Passover seder in the Maggid section before והיא שעמדה (v’hi she’amda). . . . Contributor(s): This variation on the discourse of the four children in the Haggadah was (barring minor edits) first composed for my family’s experimental small-scale seder in 2019, my second time ever leading a seder. I had come to the conclusion that for a text whose entire ikkar is for the children to learn, the Four Children narrative shows some shockingly bad pedagogy. So I decided to write a subversive take on it, where I applied its framework to some of the most serious problems facing the Jewish community today, and the mainline Jewish community’s failings in dealing with them. . . . Contributor(s): This is a variation of Mipi El in Hebrew with a Judeo-Arabic translation found in the Seder al-Tawḥid for Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, compiled by Mosheh Asher ibn Shmuel in 1887 in Alexandria. . . . Contributor(s): A satirical look at contemporary Israeli civil society in Hebrew and English, as adapted from Tom Lehrer’s sardonic “National Brotherhood Week” (1965). . . . Contributor(s): Jews all over the world announce the new month on the Shabbat before it with a text known as “birkat ha-ḥodesh” or blessing the month. In many rites, such as the Western Sephardic and Moroccan rites, the fast days 17 Tammuz and 10 Tevet are also announced on the Shabbat before them with a text known as “hazkarat tsomot” or announcing fasts. But to my knowledge, only the Italian rite (and possibly the ancient Eretz Yisrael rite from which much of it derives) have a custom of announcing Pesaḥ on the Shabbat before it. This passage, the Announcement of Pesaḥ (Azcaràd Pesah in Italian traditional pronunciation) is recited on the Shabbat before Pesaḥ, commonly known as Shabbat haGadol (Sciabbàd Aggadòl), after the reading from the Torah. Citing the mystical hekhalot literature, it celebrates the sages who established the rules of the calendar. . . . Contributor(s): “All Four (Are One),” riffing on the story in the haggadah of the four children, is a prayer-poem on the theme of intracommunal discord six months after October 7th (possibly reflected in the family dynamics at the seder table itself). Written by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, it was first published on the website of Bayit: Building Jewish on 2 April 2024. . . . Contributor(s): This prayer was offered by Rabbi Andy Vogel and Rabbi Seth Goldstein and published at each of their websites on 3 April 2024. On Rabbi Vogel’s site, the prayer included the statement, “We encourage you to use the words of this prayer as you see fit; no attribution is needed.” . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 April 1995. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 15 April 1985. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1983. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 April 1983. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1983. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1982. . . . Contributor(s): The earliest “Earth Pledge” circulated between Earth Day 1970 and 1983. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 May 1979 in the event of the 31st anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 April 1978. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 April 1978. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 April 1977. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 April 1975. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 April 1972. . . . Contributor(s): The first published liturgy for Yom Hashoah, and containing the first use of cantillated English for liturgical purposes. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 April 1969. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 May 1968 in the event of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 May 1968 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 April 1967. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 17 April 1967. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 April 1966. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 25 April 1966. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1966. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 April 1966. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 May 1965 on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1964. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 April 1964. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 April 1963 in the event of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1961. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 April 1960. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 April 1958 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 April 1958 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1958. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 18 April 1955. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 April 1951. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1948. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 April 1946. . . . Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 April 1942. . . . |
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