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2025 📅 Resources published in 2025 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This is an original ḳedushtaot cycle for Yom Meturgeman, the eighth of Tevet, to be inserted into the ‘amidah. Categories: Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, עמידה amidah, אתבש atbash, קרובות ḳerovot, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Public Amidah, קדושתאות ḳedushtaot Contributor(s): This prayer was composed with gratitude by Rabbi Nathalie Lastreger, the Masorti minyan in Kfar Vradim. The prayer was first published to Rabbi Nathalie Lastreger’s Facebook page on 19 January 2025. The English translation was offered in a Facebook post by Susan Rand-Lakritz to accompany a video of the prayer being offered. This prayer for the safe release of the hostages taken by HAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023 was shared by the Masorti Movement in Israel and the Knesset haRabanim b’Yisrael on 17 January 2025 in anticipation of the release of the remaining living hostages in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement. The prayer was first published via the Masorti Movement website, here. Categories: Tags: 2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire agreement Contributor(s): This prayer for the safe return of the captives taken by HAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023 was offered by Rabbi Noa Mazor in the period anticipating the release of the surviving captives in January 2025 as part of a larger ceasefire agreement between the State of Israel and HAMA”S in Gaza. It was first published on her Facebook page on 13 January 2025. 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): “Find the Lily” is a prayer-poem written in first person by Trisha Arlin. It was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 6 November 2024. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Librarians” by Trisha Arlin was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 7 December 2024. תפילה לפני הבדלה לחרבות ברזל | Prayer before Havdalah for the War of Iron Swords, by Dr. Yael LevineA prayer by Dr. Yael Levine for salvation, comfort, and healing during the Ḥarvot Barzel War, first published in Olam Katan, issue 973 (21 November 2024, parashat Ḥayyei Sarah). Categories: Tags: 2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire agreement Contributor(s): This piyyut tells the story of Naomi and Ruth through an imagined dialogue. Naomi, aged and alone, is taken aback by Ruth’s unwavering attachment. Ruth explains that it is with Naomi—and her faith—that she finds the truth and authenticity she longs for. It can also be read as an allegorical dialogue between the Torah and the people of Israel, you insist on remaining loyal to her. פתרונו כפול: פשוטו על נעמי ורות ורומז לתורה עם כנסת ישראל. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., French translation, Naomi, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Ruth, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): This is an annually updated chart that I have been creating and sharing for 10+ years. This grid for counting the omer includes the secular date for 2026 as well as Hebrew dates and the sefirot associated with each day of the omer. More information can be found on my website. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for International Women’s Day by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami was first published on their Facebook page, 8 March 2024. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This piyyut envisions Queen Esther’s prayer as she enters King Ahasuerus’ palace unbidden. In Tractate Megilla 15b, the sages associate verses from Psalm 22 with Esther in these pivotal moments. Written in the first person, this poem weaves together verses from Psalms and the Book of Esther, along with interpretations and commentaries of Talmudic Sages, to evoke Esther’s prayer at this crucial moment. Its structure mirrors the Rosh Hashanah piyyut “‘Et Sha‘are Ratson”, which recounts the binding of Isaac through the perspectives of its protagonists. Like Isaac, Esther is headed to a sacrifice, but she goes with full awareness and intent for the sake of her people. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Esther, תענית אסתר Fast of Esther, משתה Mishteh, פיוטים piyyuṭim, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): “Shirat Miriam and Devorah / Uri, Uri” (Song of Miriam, Song of Deborah / Rise up, Rise Up) was first published in 2024, as the second of four piyyutim published through the Diwan Ashira Project by Ephraim Kahn. This piyyut versifies the Laws of Prayer as derived from the verses recounting Hannah’s prayer (TB Berakhot 31a-31b). In addition to using the words of the verses from which these laws are derived, this poem is itself a prayer: «Train my lips to pray like those of Hannah!». It can be sung as a reshut (introductory piyyut) for the Haftarah of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, when these verses are read. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This Yizkor prayer for the victims of October 7th 2023, was written by Rabbi Binyamin Holzman and first published on the website Geluyah on 7 November 2023. The English translation was made by an unknown translator and set side-by-side with the Hebrew source by the Shalom Hartman Institute. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Siddur Or veShalom is a prayerbook for Shabbat and festivals, containing the liturgy for weekly Shabbat services, and all additions needed on Yom Tov, as well as Rosh Ḥodesh, Shabbat Ḥol haMo’ed and Ḥanukkah. This siddur also includes artwork by a range of community contributors, various additions to the Torah service to mark life cycle events, and a large back section of home ceremonies with pizmonim (songs) for the table. The siddur complements Siddur Or uMasoret for weekday use (2019/2023). This is a prayer for democracy is an appeal to each other and to everyone who realizes what real freedom is and how fragile it is if we are not alert. Whether you call that praying or something else, that does not matter. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): I am a rabbi, and I serve an assisted living community: Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco. I was inspired by the loving care given to the members of this community, and wanted to acknowledge these workers. I, together with three residents, wrote a prayerbook for our services, Siddur Erev Shabbat (Kindle/Amazon Direct Publishing, 2020). This prayer, which is entirely my own composition, is included in that prayerbook, and we recite it at each Friday service. In her ordination address in May 2012, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein said, “One of the really precious things about becoming familiar with Jewish texts is that I begin to hear the echos of ancient words in daily conversation, and feel my life growing in depth and dimensionality. As I thought about what I wanted to share today, I kept hearing in my head Maimonides’ 13 Principles of Faith reverberating through the NPR series called, This I Believe. Weaving these two not so different themes together, here’s where I arrived.” Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, English vernacular prayer, שלשה עשר עקרים shlolshah asar iqarim (13 principles) Contributor(s): While the theme of the Shema is dedicating oneself to the Divine and their Teaching, this paraliturgical Shema is dedicated to internalizing Jewish identity mindful of the experience of past generations and one’s responsibility to future ones. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish identity, paraliturgical shema Contributor(s): | ||
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