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2025 —⟶ November 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 October 2025 📅 December 2025 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in November 2025 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? An adaptation of the fourth berakhah of a festival musaf, for Sigd. Since halakhically there is technically no Sigd musaf, this does not end with shem u-malkhut in the ḥatimah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A meditation prior to laying tefillin that takes into regard the creature whose skin was repurposed for this sacred ritual activity. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): While the time for beginning to mention God’s power to bring rain in our prayers has a dramatic introductory piyyut (see my work here for a version with Immahot), the time when we begin actually asking for said rain is unadorned by any poetry, and is simply a change in one phrase in our liturgy. Therefore, inspired by a Facebook post by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (who since wrote his own version here), I wrote the following piyyut over the course of 5785, to be added to the Maariv service on the evening when one begins praying for rain in their location. Each stanza of the piyyut is intended to be added before the ḥatimah of each of the four blessings surrounding the Maariv Shema. I have signed my name to the acrostic, and provided a translation that highlights said acrostic and structure. May we have a year of abundance and goodness. This weekday Amidah was offered by Miriam Rubin as an exercise during the Davvening Leadership Training Initiative (Week 3). She writes, “I began writing this July of 2024 when I was still pregnant and finished it in February of 2025 when my daughter was about 4 months old.” Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): תפלות לחיילי צבא ארצות הברית Prayer Book for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (1984) is a trans-denominational and bilingual Hebrew-English siddur arranged by the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the Jewish Welfare Board. The siddur served to update the prayerbook offered by the organization in 1958. It included elements from The Traditional Prayer Book for Sabbaths and Festivals (ed. Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1960), The Gates of Prayer (ed. Rabbi Chaim Stern, 1975), and a siddur that had not yet been published in 1984: Sim Shalom (ed. Rabbi Jules Harlow, 1985). On the verso of the title page Rabbi Stephan O. Parnes is credited as editor, while Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, Rabbi Leonard S. Kravitz, and Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg are credited for their editorial work in preparing the manuscript of the siddur in the Acknowledgments section. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): מְנוּחַת שָׁלוֹם: תְּפִלַת לֵיל שַׁבָּת Menuchat Shalom: Late Service for Sabbath Eve (1943) was arranged by Isadore Shalom Ravetch as used in his congregation Temple Sinai (Long Beach, California). This is the opening prayer of the First Biennial Convention of the National Jewish Welfare Board offered by Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, and published in the Report of First Biennial Convention [of the National Jewish Welfare Board] (1922), p. 14. La Tefila du Soldat is an abridged bilingual Hebrew-French prayerbook for French-Jewish soldiers prepared in 1939 by Rabbi Maurice Liber, the former interim Chief Rabbi of France under Rabbi Israël Lévi (from 1934-1939). In addition to abridged liturgy, the prayerbook also contains a curated selection of teḥinot in vernacular French, and psalms in French translation. Rabbi Isaie Schwartz, appointed chief rabbi in 1939, wrote the introductory letter to Jewish soldiers at the start of the French section of the siddur. In it, he notes the prayerbook is, essential, a copy of one offered to French-Jewish soldiers by the Consistoire central israelíte de France during World War Ⅰ. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, military, World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): The prayer for the sovereign as dedicated to the Austrian emperor (and King of Hungary) at the outset of World War Ⅰ. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Austrian Empire, Austrian Jewry, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Prayers for leaders, World War Ⅰ Contributor(s): Gebetbuch für israelitische Soldaten im Kriege (1914) was translated and arranged by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald for Jewish military personnel in the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in service to Kaiser Franz Joseph Ⅰ (1830-1916) during what became known as World War Ⅰ. This opening prayer at the 1904 Democratic National Convention was offered by Rabbi Samuel Sale as found published in “Eloquent Voice Names Parker,” The News and Observer (9 July 1904), page 1, cols. 2-3. This is इस्राएलांचे त्रिपर्बोत्साह The Prayers of the Three Great Jewish Festivals (1901), a maḥzor for Sukkot, Pesaḥ, and Shavuot in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905). Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bene Israel, Eastern Sefaradim, Jews of India, Marathi translation, Nusaḥ Sefaradi Contributor(s): On 20 June 1897, Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar offered this civic prayer in Hebrew with translations in Marathi and English, on behalf of the congregation of the Gates of Prayer Synagogue (Bombay/Mumbai), for the 50th anniversary of the reign of Queen Victoria over the British Empire. इस्राएलांचीं पंचोपोषणें The Prayers of the Five Jewish Fasts (1890), is a prayerbook in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905). This is प्रायश्चित्ताच्या दिवसाची प्रार्थना The Prayers of the Day of Atonement vol. 1 (1867) and vol. 2 (1868), a maḥzor for Yom Kippur in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905). This is वर्षत्रतिपदेची प्रार्थना The Jewish Propitiatory Prayer (1862), a maḥzor for Rosh haShanah in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905) This is पापाच्या क्षमेसाठी प्रार्यना The Jewish Propitiatory Prayer (1859), a prayerbook for the Seliḥot service in the month before Rosh haShanah in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905). This is an expanded posthumous adaptation of the Yiddish translation of “Teḥinah Imahot” originally written by Leah Horowitz and published in the late 18th century. This variation is found in The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled and translated by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992), pp. 84-88. The concluding prayer is longer in this variation than in the earliest published version. This is the Aramaic source of Leah Horowitz’s teḥinah imahot, a teḥinah for Shabbat Mevorkhim, also known in its Yiddish translation (also by Leah Horowitz) as the “Teḥinah fun Sarah, Rivqah, Raḥel, vəLéah” as found in the manuscript: National Library of Israel (NLI), R41A460, vol. 6, no. 2. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Aramaic, פיוטים piyyuṭim, תחנה אמהות teḥinah imahot, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): This is Leah Horowitz’s introduction to her Teḥinah Imahot, an argument for the legitimacy of Jewish women’s prayer. While the accompanying prayer is written in Aramaic with an accompanying Yiddish translation, the introduction is written in Hebrew. | ||
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