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2025 —⟶ December 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 November 2025 📅 January 2026 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in December 2025 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A desperate plea offered during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1896. This prayer by Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs was offered at the 25th anniversary of the Independent Order of B’ne B’rith’s Isaiah Lodge №49 of New York on 16 December 1888 and published in The Menorah, vol. 6, no. 1 (January 1889), p. 61. The Isaiah Lodge №49 of New York was founded on 20 December 1863. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s prayer for the government as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 30-32. This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s paraliturgical Aleinu as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 12-13. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s paraliturgical ḳaddish, a private prayer for mourners as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 11-12. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical ḳaddish, paraliturgical teḥinot Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s paraliturgical ḳaddish, a private prayer for mourners observing the yahrẓeit of their parents as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 11-12. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical ḳaddish, paraliturgical teḥinot, prayers on behalf of parents Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the weekday amidah as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with adaptations of the traditional blessings found on pp. 52-54. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit festival amidah for Sukkot as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with a unique prayer for Sukkot found on pp. 48-49. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit festival amidah for Shemini Atseret as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with a unique prayer for Shemini Atseret found on pp. 50-52. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit festival amidah for the first day of Pesaḥ as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 and pp. 38-41. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Public Repetition of the Shaḥarit Amidah for the Seventh Day of Pesaḥ, by Rabbi Max Landsberg (1884)This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit festival amidah for the seventh day of Pesaḥ as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 and pp. 42-43. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit festival amidah for Shavuot as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with a unique prayer for Shavuot found on pp. 44-45. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit amidah for a Confirmation Day as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with adaptations of the traditional blessings found on pp. 46-47. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Ritual for Jewish Worship (1884) is an early American Reform movement prayerbook in English translation by Rabbi Max Landsberg for his congregation, B’rith Ḳodesh, in Rochester, New York. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs was offered at the Dedication of the Home for the Aged and Infirm by the District Grand Lodge No. 1 Independent Order of B’né B’rith on 28 June 1882 and published in their Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of District Grand Lodge No. 1 I.O.B.B. Held January 29, 30, and 31, 1882, pp. 68-70. This is a Ḥanukkah piyyut by R. Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906), illustrious payṭan and the chief rabbi of Meknes, Morocco. According to the Kehillot Sharot organization’s notes, found here, “This piyyut speaks of the miracles that occured for the Hasmoneans, both in war against the Greeks and in purification of the Temple. It is customarily sung in Maqam Hijaz.” Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Maghrebi Jewry, Meknes, Morocco, פיוטים piyyuṭim, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): “Remember” by Emma Lazarus was written 20 January 1866 and first published in her chapbook, Poems and Translations (1866). This hymn was first published unattributed in the Union Hymnal (1897) under the title “We Hail this Day” (Hymn №89), p. 95. In Rabbi J. Leonard Levy’s The Children’s Service for Use in Religious Schools (1902) it is found attributed to Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs under the title, “The Sabbath Day” with some changes to the final stanza on page 240. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The text of Ma’aseh Yehudit, the story of Judith, as found in Sefer Ḥemdat Yamim, a mystical compilation of customs and tiqqunim first published in İzmir in around 1731. (This text is also found as “Maaseh Yehudit, Version 2” in Judah David Eisenstein’s monumental Otzar Midrashim compilation.) Sefer Ḥemdat Yamim is a unique work, likely compiled by a Sabbatean but largely based on earlier pre-Sabbatean mystical sources, and because of this any specific text in it is quite difficult to date. This specific version of the story of Judith shows substantial influence from the Septuagintal text not found in earlier Jewish variants, giving a likely terminus post quem of several generations after the Inquisition when Spanish benei anusim brought their knowledge of the Vulgate’s apocrypha with them to Judaism. Even so, it is very clearly a fundamentally Jewish work. It is appropriate to recite on Yom haBanot (1 Tevet) or any time throughout Ḥanukkah, perhaps with Esther cantillation. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, heroic women, Judith, Megillat Yehudit, predation, resistance, soporifics, women Contributor(s): Yevanim Tsur B-Af — a piyyuṭ intended to be sung before Qaddish (after the Amidah) in the Shaḥarit of Shabbat Ḥanukkah — was written by the great Moroccan paytan Yaaqov ibn Tsur (1673–1753) of Fez. It was first put to print in the Sefer ‘Et l-Kol Ḥefetz, printed by ibn Tsur’s descendants in 1893 in Alexandria. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Maghrebi Jewry, Meknes, Morocco, פיוטים piyyuṭim, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): | ||
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