תפילת נחם על תשעה באב | Tefilat Naḥem on Tishah b’Av, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (free translation by Gabbai Seth Fishman)

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Mourning, Tishah b'Av

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ישראל Yisrael, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, ירושלם Jerusalem, 58th century A.M., Al Quds, הר הבית Har haBayit, free translation, Needing Vocalization

During the time before there was a State of Israel, those ideals in our hearts which we tried to practice and which we wanted others to practice, seemed not achievable where we were because, we felt we had no influence over our world where we were. And so, the longing for our homeland was tied into the longing for our dreams and our vision. Now that the State of Israel is with us, our dreams and our visions still remain distant from our lives and therefore when we say the Tishah b’Av prayers we need to remind ourselves of the distance between that which we would have in this world and that which we do have. –Gabbai Seth Fishman

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Source (Hebrew)	Free Translation (English)
נחם יה אלהנו	May the One who knows of our wishes for a better world, and Who sees the longing and sadness that we hold in our hearts and the brokenness that we encounter in our lives, dear Yah our God, please comfort us.
אבלי בית בחירתך המתאבלים על מקדשיה.	We are in mourning for the loss of Your chosen House, special place. We grieve the holiness that once could reach to us from without and which held us up as we lived our lives.
נחם נא בכפלים המתלוננים בצל זכרונותיה, בין נצוצי קדושתה שנפלו לשבירה.	Dear Yah, comfort especially those who are so broken by the world that they’ve become bitter and alienated from the holiness they could love, but have lost touch with because of its remoteness from them.
נחם נא את יושבי עיר הקודש, עיר הבירה של מדינת ישראל, ראשית צמיחת גאולתנו, אַל־קוּדשׂ בת־עין הפלשתינאים:	And comfort those who reside in Yerushalayim because they feel these things more acutely and basically than we; residents of Yerushalayim, the capital of the state of Israel which is the place from where the first signs of our redemption begin; the city also called Al Quds, the holy place for Palestinians.
נא תשקט את חמתם ואת פחדם מהתקפות.	Please may there be quiet and ease. Please assuage their anger and reduce their terror of being attacked.
נא תשפיע עליהם רוח חכמה והשכל לחזק אחד את רעהו לכנות אחד את השני בשמות וכנויי הערצה.	Please pour down to them a spirit of wisdom and the wherewithal to support one another, that one reaches out one to another with words of respect and honor.
נא תעמוד בעזרתם להקים ממשלות השקט ובטח ויושר הדדי.	Please establish in support of them the bringing about of a government of ease and calm in which the representatives of the people treat one another with honesty and integrity.
נחמנו נא יה האל הגדול הגבור והנורא בחזיון הקודש של בית תפילה לכל העמים.	Please comfort us Yah, haEl haGadol haGibor v’haNora with that holy vision of a House of prayers for all peoples.
תן בלבבנו רגשי כבוד ואחוה, דת ועם אחד אל חברו וידעו כולם כי הם פעוליך יה ושאתה פעלתם	Place into our hearts feelings of respect and kinship for one another, one Law, one nation with everyone joining and being aware that they are Your creation, oh Yah and that You are their Creator and may Your glory be entreated,
ושכבודך נעתר על ידי שירים שונים המתיחדים במזמור שיר ליום שכולו שבת.	may it come about that we are all entreating and praying and hoping through the various hymns which will be united into a psalm, a song for a time that is completely Shabbos / full of peace and calm.
יהי רצון מלפניך שכל הנכנסים בשערי עיר הקודש ירווּ בנשמתם נחמה שלמה, נחמה בכפלים:	May it be Your will, dear God, that the souls of all who enter the gates of the Holy city may be refreshed with complete ease, doubly consoled.
ברוך אתה יה מנחם ציון ובונה ירושלים, עיר השלום ירושת העולם.	Barukh atah Yah, who comforts Zion and builds Yerushalayim, Ir Hashalom, Yerushat haolom / Jerusalem, city of peace, world’s legacy. Amen.

This prayer was originally posted with translation to Jewish Renewal Hasidus by Gabbai Seth Fishman, here.

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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Rabbi Dr. Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, affectionately known as "Reb Zalman" (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014) was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Żółkiew, Poland (now Ukraine) and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy Regime but managed to flee the Nazi advance, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the ḤaBaD Hasidic movement while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served ḤaBaD communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He subsequently earned an M.A. in psychology of religion at Boston University, and a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. He was initially sent out to speak on college campuses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in the early 1960s, after experimenting with "the sacramental value of lysergic acid", the main ingredient in LSD, leadership within ḤaBaD circles cut ties with him. He continued teaching the Torah of Ḥassidut until the end of his life to creative, free and open-minded Jewish thinkers with humility and kindness and established warm ecumenical ties as well. In September 2009, he became the first contributor of a siddur to the Open Siddur Project database of Jewish liturgy and related work. Reb Zalman supported the Open Siddur Project telling its founder, "this is what I've been looking forward to!" and sharing among many additional works of liturgy, an interview he had with Havurah magazine in the early to mid-1980s detailing his vision of "Database Davenen." The Open Siddur Project is proud to be realizing one of Reb Zalman's long held dreams.

Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)

Born in 1954 in Brooklyn, Gabbai Seth Fishman grew up in a secular Jewish home though always felt spiritual. He was shaped by the social and political forces of the late 1960s and 70s. He received a B.A. from Yale in Music in 1976 and an MBA from Wharton School of Business in 1986. In 1989, he met Reb Zalman and began working for him as a gabbai the following year. Married with two daughters, he is active in the Jewish Ritual life of Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he davvens, studies and teaches Ḥasidus.

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