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2026 —⟶ March 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 February 2026 📅 April 2026 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in March 2026 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “Tolerance” is the twenty-fourth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 83-86. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., בצלם אלהים btselem Elohim, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, welcome the stranger Contributor(s): “Hanukkah-The Feast of Light” is the twenty-second prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 77-79. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anti-authoritarian, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “Light Divine” is the twentieth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 71-73. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., divine light, English vernacular prayer, illuminatus, Inner light, Seasonal Affective Disorder, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “Israel’s Unity” is the twenty-eighth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 96-98. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alienation, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, Jewish identity, Jewish particularism, teḥinot in English, תוכחות tokheḥot Contributor(s): “Prayer for Others” is the twenty-seventh prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 93-95. “Our Enemies” is the thirty-first prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 105-107. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume. However, the pacifist language and argument in this prayer strongly identifies it as having been written by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach. “Righteousness” is the twenty-ninth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 99-101. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, exhortation, Justice, social justice, teḥinot in English, תוכחות tokheḥot, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof Contributor(s): “From Strength to Strength” is the nineteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 68-70. “Hospitality” is the thirtieth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 102-104. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, exhortation, hospitality, social class, social justice, teḥinot in English, תוכחות tokheḥot Contributor(s): “Succoth—Feast of Tabernacles” is the eighteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 64-67. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., divine abundance, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “God’s Bounty” is the seventeenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 61-63. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., divine abundance, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “Yom Kippur—The Day of Atonement” is the sixteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 57-60. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume. Rock of Ages” (a/k/a, “Hanukkah-Hymn”) was written by the prominent Reform movement rabbi Gustav Gottheil, and composed in English verse to be sung to a popular melody for the piyyut Maoz Tsur. It was first published in The Jewish Chronicle, №1341 (new series), 21 December 1894, p. 18. The work cannot be regarded as a translation, or even a free translation or paraphrasic translation, but rather as a song inspired by the initial lines of the first and last stanzas of Maoz Tsur. Three of the five stanzas were published as “Hanukkah-Hymn” in The Union Prayerbook (1895), p. 46. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A tiqqun for Erev Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, as found in Sefer Zokhrenu le-Ḥayyim, a Ḳabbalistic haggadah for the Passover seder with translation and commentary published in Livorno in 1870 for use of the Tripolitanian Jewish community. An extended tiqqun for Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, as found in Sefer Zokhrenu le-Ḥayyim, a Ḳabbalistic haggadah for the Passover seder with translation and commentary published in Livorno in 1870 for use of the Tripolitanian Jewish community. Born into Judaism, Paul Christian Kirchner was baptized a Christian in 1713. In 1717, he first published the word “Jüdisches Ceremoniel” or “Jewish Ceremony,” for which he is most well known — a firsthand recollection (and, to be honest, criticism) of Jewish practices throughout the year and life cycle. While the work is written by an apostate for a Christian audience, and thus it is certainly not an unbiased source — and it had been almost a decade since he left the community so some of his memories are a bit muddled — it is still a fascinating work if only for its depiction of Jewish practices otherwise forgotten. In this portion of Kirchner’s description of the Seder night, he describes a ritual somewhat similar to the one still practiced in many North African communities to this day along with six — count ’em, six! — questions asked by the eldest (‽) child to the father. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Christian Hebraism, Four Questions, German vernacular prayer, haggadah supplements, liberation, paraliturgical Contributor(s): A schedule for hafṯaroṯ for the weekly portions and festivals, as well as psalms for the weekly portions, according to a Damascus Karaite siddur from approximately 1700. According to the work of Jacob Mann’s The Bible as Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue (1940), the Ḳaraite hafṭaroṯ schedule was probably adapted from the practice of the Byzantine Romaniotes, whose practice was in many ways much closer to the one attested here than to rabbinic norms practiced today. Both ultimately derive from the old Western Rite hafṭaroṯ, albeit adapted to the annual cycle originating from the east. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): All Jews around the world today follow some variant of the annual cycle of Torah readings, developed in the Babylonian diaspora in the talmudic era. In this cycle, the entire Torah is read once a year. (Some Reform communities recite a selection from each parasha, while many Conservative communities follow an ersatz triennial system where a third of each parashah is read every week, but the parashiyot still follow the annual cycle.) The old Erets Yisrael rite had a triennial, or technically semiseptennial, cycle, going through the entire Torah once every three and a half years. But there is a third cycle that has otherwise been completely forgotten about: the semiannual cycle. This cycle was developed by ‘Anan ben David, the legendary founder (or if you ask the Ḳaraites, reviver) of the Ḳaraite movement, in his (only fragmentarily preserved) Sefer ha-Mitsvot. In it, the entire Torah is read twice a year, concluding on the intermediate sabbath of both Pesaḥ and Sukkot before starting anew the next week. This idea did not catch on, even among the Ḳaraites, who to this day use an adaptation of the rabbinic annual cycle instead. But it has largely been preserved. Here it is restored and reconstructed for those whose main complaint with the Torah reading is it isn’t long enough. Categories: Tags: 46th century A.M., 8th century C.E., הפטרות haftarot, Nusaḥ haKaraim, לוח lu'aḥ, תהלים Psalms, semiannual Torah reading cycle, Torah Reading Contributor(s): A German-language Lied, or art song, retelling Ḥad Gadya, by the great cantor (and father of an even greater composer) Isaac Offenbach. First published in his 1838 “Hagadah, oder Erzählung von Israels Auszug aus Egypten” in Cologne, along with sheet music of a setting for voice and piano, it is here typed in modernized German spelling. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is a German translation of the first nine stanzas of the counting song popularly sung at the Passover seder, made by Paul Christian Kirchner in 1717. Categories: Tags: 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Christian Hebraism, counting songs, אחד מי יודע eḥad mi Yodéaʼ, German translation, haggadah supplements, פיוטים piyyuṭim, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): | ||
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