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🡄 (Previous day) :: 📅 10 December 2025 📅 18 December 2025 :: (Next day) 🡆 📅 Resources published on 11 December 2025 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Our Enemies,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section Ⅲ: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on pages 100-101. This prayer seems to me to be inspired by (or a reformulation of) the traditional twelfth blessing of the weekday Amidah, שׁוֹבֵר אוֹיְבִים וּמַכְנִיעַ זֵדִים shovér oyvim u-makhniya zedim (“who breaks enemies and overpowers evil ones”) a/k/a la-malshinim or al haminim. This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Our Country,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Unity,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. Following the prayer, Rabbi Cronbach notes the prayer is “from Peace Service, compiled by [the] National Council for the Prevention of War (NCPW).” The prayer reads to me as alternative formulation of the prayer Shfokh Ḥamatkha offered at the traditional pouring of Elijah’s cup before the Pesaḥ seder’s Hallel service. Categories: Tags: American Jewry of the United States, anti-war, English vernacular prayer, interwar period, Jewish pacifism, שפוך חמתך shfokh ḥamatekha Contributor(s): A manual for Reform movement rabbis compiled by the Central Conference of American Rabbis in 1928, containing ceremonial prayers for life cycle events in the synagogue, cemetery, and other contexts. Part Two of the “Revised Edition” of the Union Prayerbook arranged by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, published in 1918, containing services for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. This blessing, entitled “Prayer for Peace,” was first published in The Union Prayerbook for Jewish Worship, revised edition, part Ⅰ (CCAR, 1918) on page 110. The blessing is the concluding prayer of the weekday and festival Amidah. Here, in this adapted formulation in English, it is combined with a blessing for “our country” (the United States of America). Rabbi Abraham Cronbach includes the prayer in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. We are not certain whether Rabbi Cronbach authored this prayer, although it is suggested by its inclusion here. Categories: Tags: American Jewry of the United States, עמידה amidah, English vernacular prayer, interwar period, Jewish pacifism, paraliturgical sim shalom, שים שלום sim shalom Contributor(s): Part One of the “Revised Edition” of the Union Prayerbook arranged by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, published in 1918, containing services for Shabbat, Festivals, Weekdays, and a section of prayers for private devotion (i.e., travel and life cycle prayers). | ||
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