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2026 —⟶ January 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 December 2025 📅 February 2026 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in January 2026 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? These supplemental stanzas to the 1623 piyyut, “Shalom Aleikhem,” by Miriam Rubin, were offered on 9 January 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This mi sheberakh prayer was offered by Rabbi Gila Caine for those reviewing and compiling the documentary evidence of the depraved violence committed by HAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023. A prayer for every day in the Gregorian year 2026, by Miriam Rubin, was offered in the first week of January, on 5 Jan 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Difficult People (in two parts)” was first offered on Yom Kippur 5772 (2011) at Pleasantville Community Synagogue (Pleasantville, NY), and has since appeared in congregational newsletters, blogs, and on the website “Restless Pilgrim.” The prayer (in two parts) begins with a focus on the difficult people in our lives, then shifts and becomes a prayer that we ourselves not be difficult people in the lives of others. “The Sabbath” is the fifth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 22-25. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon. “Daily Revelation is found early on in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 19-21. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon. “Starting Anew” is found early on in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 15-18. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon. This “Morning Prayer” is found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 12-14. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon. This “Meditation” is the opening prayer of ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 9-11. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Sincerity” is the seventh prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 28-30. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, paraliturgical elohai netsor, paraliturgical seliḥot, teḥinot in English, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): Rejoice in Hashem, an entreaty to recognize happiness as an auspicious moment for prayer (CCAR 1923)“Rejoice in the Lord” is the sixth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 26-27. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) is a collection of fifty teḥinot and devotional readings in vernacular English. The work was compiled by a committee chaired by Rabbi Solomon Freehof, along with Rabbi Israel Bettan, Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, and Rabbi Abram Simon. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): In this song written in rhymed Yiddish verse, Rabbi Gerstein celebrates the day of 11 May 1920, the date upon which determined the fate of the Ottoman Empire after World War Ⅰ was concluded and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 reïfied in favor of Jewish national objectives in the Land of Israel. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Balfour Declaration, Early Religious Zionism, Ottoman Empire, San Remo conference, שיר Shir, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): This prayer offered by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster, chief rabbi of the S&P Congregations of Britain on Yom Kippur, 30 September 1914 (10 Tishrei 5675), is found under the title, תפלה על מלחמה (Prayer for the time of War). The prayer was published in a short prayer-pamphlet entitled תפלה לעת מצוה (a prayer “For the Time When Thou Mayest Be Found” [Psalms 32׃6]). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Ʝehovah” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), pp. 132-133. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical birkat mehayeh hametim, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Seder-Night” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), p. 117. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “The Hebrew’s Friday Night (After Burns)” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), pp. 114-116. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): This prayer for the well-being of Her Majesty’s military forces in the Sudan, was offered by chief rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler for use by the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire in the context of British involvement in the Mahdist War, and specifically after news reached Britain of the Battle of Abu Klea in January 1885. The megillah for Plum-Jam Purim or Powidlpurim, a family Purim celebrated by the Brandeis family of Bumsla, Bohemia (Czech: Mladá Boleslav; German: Jungbunzlau) on 10 Adar to commemorate David Brandeis’ liberation from prison on trumped-up charges of poisoning. First published along with a German translation and some genealogical notes in Magazin für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, vol. 15, 1888. According to Chef/Rabbi Gil Marks z”l, the celebration of Plum-Jam Purim was the origin of prune hamantaschen as a concept — prior to 1731 all hamantaschen had a poppy seed filling! Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German translation, liberation, salvation, Slavery & Captivity Contributor(s): By a 16th century paytan named Yitsḥaq, this is a Purim parody of the Havdalah (and Yom Kippur) piyyuṭ “HaMavdil,” found in Israel Davidson’s classic work Parody in Jewish Literature (1907), pp. 36-37. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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