📖 The Helpful Manual, by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (Centre of Jewish Science 1927)

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Science movement

The Helpful Manual is a prayerbook containing reflections, supplications, and affirmations expressing the teachings of the then nascent Jewish Science movement, prepared by one of the movement’s founders, Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy in 1927, on behalf of the Centre of Jewish Science. (The Jewish Science movement was at the time intended to counter the popularity of the Christian Science movement among Jews in the United States.) Each of the prayers in the manual is preceded by a short reflection, often but not always written in the first person, that serves as an intention for what is motivating the prayer, whatever the concern, need, or desire.

This work is in the Public Domain due to its having been published more than 95 years ago.

This hand-book of Jewish Science is offered to supply the great need of the multitude for a brief presentation of the ways in which our mode of higher scientific living, as applied to Judaism, utilizes every well tested method of securing the well being of body, mind and Spirit, bringing health, happiness and lasting success to every one who uses it diligently.
Each section is brief, because we want that which will aid us most in the simplest, most compact form.
It is offered gladly for the use of all in need, when they require help most.
As the first publication put forth by THE BERTHA STRAUSS MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND, we feel sure that it will be accepted as a proper tribute to one of the pioneers in the JEWISH SCIENCE movement.
THE CENTRE OF JEWISH SCIENCE
92 GOLD STREET NEW YORK, N.Y.

[CONTENTS]
Applying Judaism to Life
I Want to Pray
I Seek Health and Healing
Bringing Health to the Home
I Feel Nervous and Upset
Peace Within
I Must Not Worry
Facing Temptation
Thy Will Be Done!
Facing Eternity
OUR CHILDREN
For Very Young Children
Before Sleeping
Morning Prayer
For Older Children
Night Prayer
Morning Prayer
Bible Thoughts
Our Affirmation

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.

Clifton Harby Levy

Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (1867–1962), was a Reform rabbi in the United States. Born in New Orleans, he was ordained at Hebrew Union College (1890), served as rabbi of Congregation Gates of Hope, New York City (1890–91), and as superintendent of classes for immigrant children established by the Baron de Hirsch Fund. Levy later served congregations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1892–94) and Baltimore, Maryland (1894–96), where he organized a Jewish kindergarten in a religious school and the first United Hebrew Charities. He founded Tremont Temple, Bronx, New York, and was its rabbi from 1906 to 1921. He left the pulpit rabbinate in 1921 and in 1924 organized the Centre of Jewish Science, New York City. As part of the Jewish Science movement, it sought to counter the influence of Christian Science among acculturated American Jews and to inject spirituality into the Reform Jewish synagogue. He was a founding member of the American Council for Judaism, which consisted primarily of anti-Zionist Reform rabbis and laymen. While still a student, Levy published a five-act Purim play, Haman and Mordecai (1886). During his stay in Baltimore he edited Jewish Comment. He edited The Bible in Art (1936) and The Bible in Pictures (1942), and served as art editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17