תְּפִלָּה בְּעַד שְׁלוֹם הַמְּדִינָה | Prayer for the Wellbeing of the United States of America and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Rabbi Yosef Yitsḥaq Schneersohn (12 September 1941)

This is the prayer for the welfare of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States offered by the sixth rebbe of ḤaBaD, Yosef Yitsḥaq Schneersohn (“נתקנה ע״י כ״ק אדמו״ר שליט״א מליובאװיטש“), in advance of Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur in 5701 (1941).

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🇺🇸 United States of America

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-fascist, anti-racist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, Prayers for leaders, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yosef Yitsḥaq Schneersohn

Vision and Hope, an exhortation for self-discipline while yearning for social progress (CCAR 1923)

“Vision and Hope” is the forty-second prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 139-142.

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, exhortation, footsteps of Moshiaḥ, Messianic Age, progress, teḥinot in English, Universal Peace

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

וְיֶאֱתָֽיוּ כֹּל לְעָבְדֶּֽךָ | v-Yèə̀tayu Kōl l’Avdèkha (All the world shall come to serve Thee), an early piyyuṭ with rhymed English translation by Israel Zangwill

This is the early piyyut, “v-Yeètayu Kol l’Avdèkha,” as paraphrased in rhymed English verse by Israel Zangwill in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim vol. 2 (1904), pp. 154-155.

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Yom Kippur

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Crowning, Late Antiquity, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation) and Unknown