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 Resources employing English language← Back to Languages & Scripts Index Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Haim Asa on 13 November 1985The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 November 1985. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Simcha Freedman on 22 October 1985The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 22 October 1985. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman on 4 June 1985The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 June 1985. . . . Inauguration Day Prayer for President Ronald Reagan, by Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk (1985)This prayer by Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk at the second inauguration of President Ronald Reagan was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record on January 21, 1985. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Max A. Shapiro on 15 April 1985The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 15 April 1985. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Maynard C. Hyman on 28 March 1985The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 March 1985. . . . Invocation by Rabbi Martin Weiner at the Democratic National Convention (1984)The full text of Rabbi Martin Weiner’s invocation offered on the second day of the Democratic National Convention, July 17th, 1984. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Max B. Wall on 21 June 1984The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 June 1984. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Richard M.E. Marcovitz on 14 June 1984The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 14 June 1984. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. Stanley M. Wagner on 2 April 1984The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 April 1984. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Theodore S. Levy on 8 March 1984The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 March 1984. . . . תְּפִלָה לְשָׁלוֹם | Prayer for Peace, by Samuel Avital (March 1984)This Prayer for Peace by Samuel Avital was composed in January 1984 for a gathering of spiritual teachers from all over the world at Mt. Sinai in March 1984. A month later, the State of Israel would return the Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty. While that event was not documented in any media, the prayer was first published in Four Worlds Journal vol. 2 no. 4, (January 1985), pp. 16-17. Of the event itself, Samuel Avital adds, “I performed there some of my mime performances like Jacob & Angel, Black & White and others.” The prayer for peace is included in Samuel Avital’s Passover Haggadah (2021). . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Irving J. Block on 2 June 1983The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 June 1983. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Efry Spectre on 12 May 1983The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 12 May 1983. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Abraham Hecht on 21 April 1983The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1983. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Isaac Neuman on 11 April 1983The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 April 1983. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Morris M. Hershman on 1 February 1983The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 February 1983. . . . Kavvanah before eating or drinking on Yom Kippur for those who must eat for the safety of their life, as found in Torat ha-Yoledet (Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein 1983)This is a kavvanah (intention) for anyone in a desperate circumstance of needing to eat or drink for their mortal health, to do so with the full confidence that they are fulfilling a mitsvah required for them in the Torah, to preserve their life. The kavvanah was related by Rav Yitschok Zilberstein in his Toras haYoledes (1983), chapter 52, section 10, p. 357 (pp. 331-332 in the bilingual edition 1989), “הועתק ממחזור עתיק” (as “copied from an old maḥzor”). Unfortunately, we can’t provide a more direct reference to this maḥzor. If you know, please leave a comment or contact us. . . . פִּלְחֵי תָפּוּ״ז | Items for the Second Seder Plate: Orange segments, after the teaching of Dr. Susannah HeschelIn the early 1980s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians (suggesting that there’s as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate). Heschel felt that to put bread on the seder plate would be to accept that Jewish lesbians and gay men violate Judaism like ḥamets violates Passover. So, at her next seder, she chose an orange as a symbol of inclusion of gays and lesbians and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community. She offered the orange as a symbol of the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life. . . . אל מלא רחמים לזכר הנרצחים | El Malé Raḥamim Prayer for the Victims of Terrorism in the Land of IsraelAn El Malé Raḥamim prayer for Victims of Terror in Erets Yisrael, with an English translation by Rabbi Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraeli from Prayers for Israel, for Protection from Terror Attacks, and In Memory of the Victims (15 October 2023), page 6. . . . Prayer at the Dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff on 13 November 1982The closing prayer at the Nov 13, 1982 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. by Rabbi (Navy Chaplain) Arnold E. Resnicoff. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Eugene H. Levy on 24 June 1982The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 June 1982. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Sidney S. Guthman on 22 April 1982The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1983. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Seymour L. Essrog on 20 April 1982The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1982. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Louis M. Tuchman on 30 March 1982The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 March 1982. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Rafael G. Grossman on 16 March 1982The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 16 March 1982. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Ely E. Pilchik on 12 May 1981The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 May 1981. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Sidney S. Guthman on 19 March 1981The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 March 1981. . . . שיר של מרים הנביאה | The Song of Miriam, a petiḥah by Rabbi Ruth H. Sohn (1981)“The Song of Miriam” by Rabbi Ruth Sohn was first published as “I Shall Sing to the Lord a New Song,” in Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim, Reconstructionist Prayerbook, 1989, 1995 Second Edition. Reconstructionist Press, pp. 768-769. (This poem was also published in several haggadot and other books and set to music by several composers in the U.S. and Israel.) Rabbi Sohn wrote the poem in 1981 as a rabbinical student after immersing herself in the Torah verses and the traditional midrashim about Miriam, and after writing a longer modern midrash about Miriam. Part of this modern midrash was published as “Journeys,” in All the Women Followed Her, ed. Rebecca Schwartz (Rikudei Miriam Press, 2001). . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. Solomon Freilich on 18 March 1980The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 March 1980. . . . קִינָה עַל חֻרְבָּן הָאַחֲרוֹן | Lamentation on the Holocaust, by Shimon Zuker (1980)A ḳinnah composed by a concentration camp survivor. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Barton G. Lee on 13 March 1980The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 March 1980. . . . Earth Pledge, by an Unknown Author (ca. 1980)The earliest “Earth Pledge” circulated between Earth Day 1970 and 1983. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Bernhard H. Rosenberg on 14 June 1979The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 14 June 1979. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Laurence A. Kotok on 2 May 1979The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 May 1979 in the event of the 31st anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi David A. Nelson on 27 March 1979The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 March 1979. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Lester M. Miller on 27 March 1979The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 March 1979. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dov Edelstein on 8 March 1979The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 March 1979. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Herbert J. Mandl on 27 July 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 July 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Walter Jacob on 15 June 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 15 June 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Albert Plotkin on 17 May 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 May 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Moshe E. Bomzer on 18 April 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 April 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dov Bidnick on 6 April 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 April 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. Henry E. Kraus on 4 April 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 April 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Harry H. Epstein on 16 March 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 March 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Herbert A. Opalek on 2 March 1978The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 March 1978. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Simcha Freedman on 18 October 1977The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 October 1977. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Israel Goldstein on 14 July 1977The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 14 July 1977. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Chaim U. Lipschitz on 28 April 1977The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 April 1977. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Alex Pollack on 17 March 1977The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 March 1977. . . . |
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