תפילה קודם תפילה בציבור בימי קורונה | Prayer Preceding Communal Prayer During the Coronavirus Pandemic, by Rabbi Binyamin Holtzman (2020)
A prayer for health and safety in public, communal prayer during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. . . .
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A Prayer for Today (US Election Day 2020), by Rabbi Shai HeldA Prayer on US Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd 2020. . . . ברכה למורים | Blessing for Teachers (Siddur Tefilat ha-Adam, Israeli Reform Movement 2020)A prayer for teachers at the onset of the school year. . . . תפילה להצבעה | A Prayer for Voting with a Pledge to Help Repair the World, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)This prayer is broadly speaking a prayer that we learn to work together to create a better future, and it incorporates a pledge to do one thing for healing the world, for tikkun olam, that will make this future a reality. It’s not a prayer about winning or getting other people to see things our way, like some of the others I’ve seen. Whomever we support, we need to pray for strength for the next president, and for the whole country, to face what will be challenging times. . . . מי שברך על כל המחרפים נפשם לעצור את המגפה | Mi sheBerakh for the Medical Workers & Researchers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic (2020)A prayer for the medical workers and researchers on the front lines of treating the afflicted and finding a cure for the COVID19 coronavirus pandemic. . . . תפילה בתגובה למגפה | Prayer in response to the Coronavirus Outbreak in Italy (Assemblea Dei Rabbini D’Italia 2020)A prayer disseminated by the Assemblea Dei Rabbini D’Italia in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in Italy and around the world. . . . Prayer Amid the Pandemic, by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UK & the Commonwealth 2020)A prayer from the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. . . . תפילה למתחסן/ת | Prayer for those Receiving Vaccinations (Masorti Movement in Israel 2020)A prayer for those receiving vaccinations. . . . Viddui for Coronavirus, by Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner (2020)A Viddui written for Jews who are losing a beloved to a plague, and who may not be able to be physically present or close to their loved one. . . . תְּפִלָּה לַמִּתְחַסְּנִים | A Prayer for the one to be Vaccinated, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried (2020)A kavvanah before a vaccination offered by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried of Ḳ.Ḳ. Beit Tefilah Yisraeli in Tel Aviv. . . . תפילה בתגובה למגפה | A Prayer in Response to the Coronavirus, by Rav Shmuly Yanklowitz (Valley Beit Midrash 2020)A prayer offered in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, by Rav Shmuly Yanklowitz (Valley Beit Midrash) . . . Prayer for Workers in a Time of Pandemic, by Rabbi Michael Rothbaum (New England Jewish Labor Committee 2020)A prayer for workers and worker needs amid the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. . . . Just for a Moment, a prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2020)A prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor reflecting on the challenges of the year 2020 up till Rosh haShanah. . . . Blessing for Caregivers, by Rabbi Me’irah IliinskyI am a rabbi, and I serve an assisted living community: Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco. I was inspired by the loving care given to the members of this community, and wanted to acknowledge these workers. I, together with three residents, wrote a prayerbook for our services, Siddur Erev Shabbat (Kindle/Amazon Direct Publishing, 2020). This prayer, which is entirely my own composition, is included in that prayerbook, and we recite it at each Friday service. . . . A HaLakhma Anya Passover Seder Supplement for the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic (Our Common Destiny 2020)A Passover supplement created for recitation at Passover seders in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. . . . A Prayer for Our Country, its Leaders, and its Citizens — by David Abernethy (2020)A prayer for the United States, its leaders and government and its citizens — a personal response to things that were troubling me in the months before November’s election – in particular the level of divisiveness in our country, and what seemed to me to be a growing sense that it isn’t important to respect people we disagree with, and an ever more prevalent belief that we are entitled to decide for ourselves which rules to follow, and all that matters are own rights and our beliefs, not our responsibilities to one another. Inspired by the events of 2020 . . . Prayer for Every Voice to be Heard and All Votes to be Counted, by Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann (2020)A prayer for the day after the US day of elections that all votes be counted. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff on 30 December 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 December 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff on 26 December 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 December 2019. . . . סדר אכילת הסמנים | Seder Akhilat haSimanim for Rosh Hashanah 5781, by Ḥayyim Obadyah (2020)A liturgy of symbolic foods exclusively for the eve of the Hebrew new year 5781. A traditional egalitarian Hebrew text being a newly revised liturgy with contemporary text and additional prayers suitable to our perilous and worrisome state at the beginning of this second year of the pandemic and including a modern English translation together with learned annotations and guidance for observance in the home. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff on 29 November 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 November 2019. . . . An Introduction to the Open Siddur Project at the National Museum of American Jewish History (8 December 2019)An event featuring a presentation by founding director Aharon Varady introducing the Open Siddur Project to attendees of the first annual Jewish New Media Festival. . . . מחזור תפילות חיינו חלק א׳ | Maḥzor Tefilot Ḥayyeinu vol.1: For Weekday Mornings, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin (2020)A weekday morning siddur in Hebrew with English translation prepared by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin adapted from traditional sources. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Steven Abraham on 20 November 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 November 2019. . . . עלה חדשה | Olah Ḥadashah: A Modern Adaptation of David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid for Shabbat Evening, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin (2020)An adaptation of a short portion of David Einhorn’s work, Olat Tamid, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin. Olah Ḥadashah—”a new offering”—is, he writes, “an attempt to bring this assurance into the present. Using modern English, gender-neutral language, and including the matriarchs in the Amidah, I hope to make a little sliver of Einhorn’s genius accessible to today’s Jews. In so doing, I hope we can find renewed purpose in our fight for justice, rooted in renewed appreciation of Judaism’s moral imperatives.” . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Evan Hoffman on 29 October 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 October 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Gershon Avtzon on 25 July 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 July 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Lawrence Sernovitz on 4 June 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 June 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Mark Getman on 24 July 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 July 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Bruce Lustig on 16 May 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 May 2019. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan on 12 March 2019The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 March 2019. . . . אַ געבעט פאַר דער אימונירונג | תְּפִלָּה לִפְנֵי חִסּוּן | Prayer before a Vaccination, by Hannah KatsmanA prayer in Hebrew to be said before a vaccination, with Yiddish and English translation. . . . A Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day (يوم النكبة), by Rabbi Brant RosenA Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day, by Rabbi Brant Rosen. . . . Tefillat Geshem, a paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret by Rabbi Louis PolissonA paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret. . . . Prayer that the Lands of Our Freedom Never Resemble Mitsrayim, by Rabbi Jill JacobsAn invocation by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, offered at the opening dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, June 2019. . . . A Prayer for Yom Kippur, by Andy IzensonA prayer for teshuvah. . . . Ḥanukkah Visualization on Infinite Light, by Rabbi Daniel Raphael SilversteinA Ḥanukkah meditation on the hidden, infinite light of creation, the Or HaGanuz, with some of the midrashic and Ḥasidic sources it is based upon. . . . Prayer for Human Solidarity, by Rabbi Ḥanan SchlesingerA prayer for human solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identity as Bnei Yisrael greatly eclipses our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . Prayer for Israeli-Palestinian Solidarity, by Rabbi Ḥanan SchlesingerA prayer for Israeli-Palestinian solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identities greatly eclipse our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . Ceremony of Gender Affirmation and Name Change, by Lilah RosenfieldA public ceremony for celebrating the Gender Affirmation and Name Change of a man, woman, or non-binary person. . . . Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Ḥeshvan, by Kohenet Ilana Joy StreitA prayer for the month of Marḥeshvan (a/k/a Ḥeshvan) on Rosh Ḥodesh Marḥeshvan in the autumn season. . . . Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev, by Kohenet Ilana Joy StreitA poem-blessing for the Hebrew month of Kislev, suitable for Birkat HaḤodesh, Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev, and the whole month. . . . The Offering: A Tashlikh Prayer, by Rabbi Jill HammerToday I turned my heart toward the new year and wrote a prayer-poem for Tashlikh, the Rosh haShanah ritual of casting bread or stones into the water to cast off one’s past wrongdoings. . . . Al HaNisim: For the Banners, by Kohenet Ilana Joy StreitAn interpretive version of Al HaNisim for Ḥanukkah that is playful, powerful, and embodied. May it fuel our activism, including the self-care and community-building that is part of activism. . . . Mikveh Kavvanah for Affirming Jewish identity, by Rabbi Jonah RankA kavvanah for affirming one’s Jewish identity in a mikvah before immersion. . . . תעודת גירות בישראל (קדם־גיל־מצות) | Certificate of Conversion for a Minor, by Rabbi Jonah RankA gender-neutral certificate of conversion for a minor, in Hebrew and English. . . . תעודת זהות מאושרת בישראל (קדם־גיל־מצות) | Certificate of Affirmation of Jewish Identity for a Minor, by Rabbi Jonah RankA gender-neutral certificate of affirmation of Jewish identity for a minor, in Hebrew and English. . . . תעודת גירות בישראל | Certificate of Conversion for an Adult, by Rabbi Jonah RankA gender-neutral Hebrew-English conversion certificate template for adults. . . . תעודת זהות מאושרת בישראל | Certificate of Affirmation of Jewish Identity for an Adult, by Rabbi Jonah RankA gender-neutral certificate of affirmation of Jewish identity for an adult, in Hebrew and English. . . . |