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Based on one of my favorite aggadot where Turnus Rufus complains to Rebbi Aḳiva that circumcision is modifying our body from “the way God made it” and Rebbi Aḳiva holds out a loaf of bread and a sheaf of wheat and asks him which one he’d rather eat (find Midrash Tanḥumah Tazria 5.1).
Note: This translation uses the plural pronouns They/Their/Them to refer to God as a pluralis majestatis, and to avoid the implications of God being assigned a gender. (Find Ibn Ezra’s commentary on Genesis 1:1 for a discussion of the pluralis majestatis when referring to God.) All divine referents (pronouns, epithets, names) are rendered in unicase.
| Source (Hebrew) | Translation (English) |
|---|---|
לְשֵׁם יִחוּד קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא וּשְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ, בִּדְחִילוּ וּרְחִימוּ, וּרְחִימוּ וּדְחִילוּ, לְיַחֲדָא שֵׁם יוֹ״ד הֵ״י בְּוָא״ו הֵ״י בְּיִחוּדָא שְׁלִים בְּשֵׁם כׇּל יִשְׂרָאֵל, |
In the name of unifying HE that is holy and blessed and SHE that is present, in awe and in love, in love and in awe, to unify the first two and last two letters of the Name that THEY be unified completely, in the name of all God-strugglers, |
הִנְנִי מוּכָן וּמְזֻמָּן לְהִשְׁתַּתֵּף בְּמַעֲשֵׂי בְּרֵאשִׁית בְּצֶלֶם מְקוֹר הַבְּרִיאָה הַבּוֹרֵא כׇּל בּוֹרְאִים. הַיּוֹצֵר שִׁבֳּלִים כְּדֵי שֶׁנִּזְכֶּה לֶאֱפוֹת גְּלֻסְקָאוֹת הוּא יְסַמְּכֵנִי וְיַעַזְרֵנִי בְּתַהֲלִיךְ זֶה אֲשֶׁר לִשְׁמוֹ נִבְרֵאתִי, |
here I am ready and willing to join in the works (pl.) of creation, in the image of the Source of creation, Creator of all creators. May the MAKER of wheat-sheaves that we may merit to bake cakes support me and help me in this process, in whose name I was created, |
כָּאָמוּר: וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃ (בראשית א:כז) |
as it is written: “And God created the human in THEIR (sg.) image, in the image of God created it, male and female created them.” (Genesis 1:27) |
וִיהִ֤י ׀ נֹ֤עַם אֲדֹנָ֥י אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ עָ֫לֵ֥ינוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יָ֭דֵינוּ כּוֹנְנָ֥ה עָלֵ֑ינוּ וּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָ֝דֵ֗ינוּ כּוֹנְנֵֽהוּ׃ (תהלים צ:יז) |
May the Master our God be pleasant upon us, and the works of our hands established for us; may THEY establish the works of our hands! (Psalms 90:17) |
This teḥinah (petitionary prayer) for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was composed by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer and first published on Bluesky in response to a request for just such a prayer by a Bluesky user, Uili (Sage).
“תְּחִנָּה לְטִפּוּל הוֹרְמוֹנָלִי | A petitionary prayer for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
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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
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