מי שברך לחיילי צה״ל | Mi sheBerakh for the Welfare of Israel Defense Forces Soldiers, by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1956)

The mi sheberakh for the IDF composed by Rabbi Shlomo Goren in the context of the Suez Crisis and Israel-Egypt conflict of 1956.

Categories:

🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Egypt–Israel relations, צה״ל IDF, Religious Zionism, religious Zionist prayers, Suez Crisis

Contributor(s):

Shlomo Goren, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Prayer for the Peace of the Union, by Rabbi M.J. Michelbacher on a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer (4 January 1861)

This prayer for the peace of the United States was offered by Rabbi M.J. Michelbacher at Congregation Beit Ahabah (Richmond, Virginia) on the occasion of a national day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer proclaimed by President James Buchanan for January 4th, 1861. The prayer was published in the Richmond Daily Gazette and reprinted as “Another Prayer for the Union” in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (17 January 1861), page 4.

Categories:

War

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Commonwealth of Virginia, fasting, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865)

Contributor(s):

Maximilian Joseph Michelbacher and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)