📖 पापाच्या क्षमेसाठी प्रार्यना | The Jewish Propitiatory Prayer, a seliḥot service in Marathi translation by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1859)

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (translation)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bene Israel, Eastern Sefaradim, Jews of India, Marathi translation, Nusaḥ Sefaradi

This is पापाच्या क्षमेसाठी प्रार्यना The Jewish Propitiatory Prayer (1859), a prayerbook for the Seliḥot service in the month before Rosh haShanah in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905). Rather than include the Marathi translation opposite their sources, the sources are given in Hebrew via their incipit titles.

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

This work was scanned by Aharon Varady for the Open Siddur Project from an item held in the collection of the HUC-JIR Klau library, Cincinnati. (Thank you!) This work is cross-posted to the Internet Archive, as a repository for our transcription efforts.

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.

Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (translation)

Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (Marathi: जोसेफ यहेज्केल राजपूरकर, Hebrew: יוסף יחזקאל ראג׳פורכר‎; 1834–1905) was a Bene Israel writer and translator of Hebrew liturgical works into Marathi.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "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)