Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Abraham Hecht on 21 April 1983
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1983. . . .
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Languages & Scripts← Back to Languages & Scripts Index 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Israel Goldstein on 14 July 1977The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 14 July 1977. . . . 📖 סֵדֶר ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | A New Year For The Trees: A Tu BiShvat Seder, by Ellen Bernstein (1988, revised: 2017)A Tu Bishvat seder haggadah by Ellen Bernstein (1988, revised: 2017) . . . 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. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi I. Usher Kirshblum on 8 February 1977The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 February 1977. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Israel Schorr on 11 May 1976The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 May 1976. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Chaim Z. Rozwaski on 8 June 1976The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 June 1976. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Naḥum M. Ben-Natan on 25 March 1976The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 March 1976. . . . 📖 מַחֲזוֹר לְראֹשׁ הַשָׁנָה (מנהג הספרדים) | Majzor leRosh haShanah (Libro de Oraciones para el Año Nuevo Hebreo), a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish maḥzor compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1976)מַחֲזוֹר לְראֹשׁ השנה Majzor leRosh Hashanah (1976) is the first edition of a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi Rosh haShanah prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989). Rabbi Melamed had in 1971 been installed at the pulpit of the Cuban Sephardic Hebrew Congregation, after having served previously in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where his 1966 Hebrew-Portuguese siddur Tefilat Masliaḥ was first published. For both prayerbooks, as no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to Rabbi Melamed, liturgy was reproduced from images of older siddurim. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Barry Rosen on 11 September 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 September 1975. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Barnett Hasden on 5 June 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 June 1975. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Morris M. Shapiro on 8 April 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 April 1975. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Chaplain Simeon Kobrinetz on 26 February 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 26 February 1975. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Gordon Papert on 20 March 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 March 1975. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Leib Pinter on 18 February 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 February 1975. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Nathan Zolondek on 28 January 1975The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 January 1975. . . . “Prayer Song,” a hymn by Stephen Hanan Kaplan from the play, David Dances (1975)A prayer written for the play David Dances (1997) by playwright Stephen Mo Hanan. . . . Land of Hope and Promise, a prayer for Israel (CCAR 1975)“Land of Hope and Promise” was published in Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook (CCAR 1975), pp. 240-241. In 1984, it was proved as the “Prayer for Israel” in the Prayerbook for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (Jewish Welfare Board 1984), p. 436. The work appears to have been adapted from a much earlier paraliturgical hashkivenu prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924) to be said by the Reader between the Shema and the Amidah in a version (№5) of the Friday night service, pp. 68-69. . . . |
