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A list of all the miscellaneous resources shared through the Open Siddur Project, sorted by date. (Some dates are approximate.)
If you have an original essay on prayer, curricular resource on the pedagogy of liturgy, or other highly useful document to share (e.g., ketubot) that you would like to share, or even a transcription or translation of a historic work you would like to contribute that doesn’t fit into our other categories, please do — and thank you.
- בִּרְכַּת כֹּהֲנִים: נְשִׂיאַת כַּפַּיִם | Birkat Kohanim: Nesíăt Kăpăyim hand gesture as displayed in Unicode and CSS (WordPress plugin by Aharon Varady)
- Contributor Activity Heatmap
- Complete List of Readings, &c. shared through the project so far
- Complete List of Prayers, &c. shared through the project so far
- Complete List of Siddurim, &c. shared through the project so far
- Complete List of Miscellaneous Items shared through the project so far
- שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti (scalable vector graphic) art, by Yaakov Love
- שטר ברית | Shtar Brit – Covenant for a Brit Ahuvim wedding, by Rebecca Ennen and Ari Weisbard
- An Introduction to the Open Siddur Project at the National Museum of American Jewish History (8 December 2019)
- תעודת גירות בישראל (קדם־גיל־מצות) | Certificate of Conversion for a Minor, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- תעודת זהות מאושרת בישראל (קדם־גיל־מצות) | Certificate of Affirmation of Jewish Identity for a Minor, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- תעודת גירות בישראל | Certificate of Conversion for an Adult, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- תעודת זהות מאושרת בישראל | Certificate of Affirmation of Jewish Identity for an Adult, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- 📰 “מאַכט אײַער אייגענעם סידור!” (Yoel Matveyev, Yiddish Daily Forverts 2019)
- Some thoughts on God’s proper, ineffable name — a d’var tefillah by Shoshana Michael Zucker
- Teshuvah on Ketubbah Where Woman Acquires Man, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- חנוכה שמח – מנדלה | Ḥanukkah Sameaḥ Mandala by Ḥatul Yehudi (Cat Jew)
- אֵל בָּרוּךְ | El Barukh, an alphabetic acrostic piyyuṭ together with the lyrics to Aleph Bass by Darshan
- האותיות של האבג״ד בעברית | A Periodic Table of the Hebrew Aleph Bet Emphasizing Phonetic Grouping, Symbolic Association, and Diversity of Letter Form
- שטרות לקישור נפשות | Documents for a Marriage from One Soulmate to Another by Raysh Weiss and Jonah Rank
- Line and letter art, by Emily K
- 📕︎ “A Case Study on the Open Siddur Project,” by Gabrielle Girau Pieck (University of Basel, 2014)
- Gender Neutralizing Ketubbah with Instructions by Jonah Rank and Raysh Weiss
- בלוז פון חלה | How the Grateful Dead, Jewish Text, and Worship Explain One Another and Raise Interesting Questions, by Virginia Spatz
- Fully Egalitarian Ketubah from Naomi & Beverly Socher-Lerner’s Wedding
- Pew Study of American Jewry: A Few Grains of Salt by Dr. Samuel Klausner
- עשרה בטבת | The Tenth of Tevet on a Friday: Can one fast half a day? by Rabbi Ethan Tucker (Mechon Hadar, Center for Jewish Law and Values)
- Musical Liturgy and Traditions of Colonial American Jews
- סדר אושפיזין / אושפיזתא | Seder Ushpizin and Ushpizata: Inviting the Avot and Imahot into your Sukkah by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)
- ‘Make yourself into a maqom hefker’: Primary sources on open-source in Judaism (sourcesheet)
- STOP ACTA & TPP from Undermining Free Speech on the Internet
- 📕︎ “People of the (Open Source) Book” by Dan Mendelsohn Aviv (Key Publishing, 2012)
- Testing Web browsers as Platforms for Hebrew Text Publishing
- הנני ☞ Hineni: Here I Am, a bookmark for your Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur maḥzor by Lieba B. Ruth
- 📖 סידור קבלת שבת | A Kabbalat Shabbat Siddur, illustrated by Daniel Nebenzahl (2012)
- שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti: perceiving the world as an expression of divine Oneness
- Siddur Class: Sourcesheets from Amit Gvaryahu’s Shiur on Tefillah
- It’s All Greek To Me–Praying in Languages Other than Hebrew (sourcesheet) by R’ Ethan Tucker
- תהלים כ״ז | A D’var Tefillah on Zombies, Elul, and Psalms 27 by Rabbi Jessica Minnen
- Public policy, technology, and copyright in Halakha: a sourcesheet
- How to Annotate Your Siddur (sourcesheet), by Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
- How to craft a small siddur or bentsher by Aharon Varady
- The Afikoman Hiding in Plain Sight, a meditation on freedom and roleplaying in re-enacting Judaism’s archetypal Hero’s Journey — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2011)
- שמע | An illustrated meditation on the unification of imagination and awareness through empathy
- Copyright and Commercial Use: the Problem with Creative Commons’ Non-Commercial Use Licenses (Efraim Feinstein, 2011)
- 📰 “The Open Siddur: A next generation communal Jewish educational resource,” by Dr. Efraim Feinstein and Dr. Devorah Preiss (Jewish Educational Leadership, Lookstein Center 2010 )
- 📰 “Ten Commandments of Jewish Social Networking” (Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles 2010)
- 📰 “Taking Prayer Into Their Own Hands” (Steve Lipman, New York Jewish Week 2010)
- An interview with Aharon Varady on Open Source Judaism (Radio613, 2010)
- Publicly funded work of Jewish non-profits should be shared with Open Content licensing (Future of Jewish Non Profit Summit, 2010)
- On the Open Siddur Project, a brochure presented at the Spring Intensive of the Academy for Jewish Religion by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2010)
- נֻסְחָאוֹת | A Historical Map of Jewish Liturgical Influence and Variation, by Aharon Varady after Joseph Heinemann
- Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception”
- Access, Sharing, and Innovation through Digitization and the Public Domain — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2010)
- Technology is a “plus” not “or” proposition: thoughts after NewCAJE — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2010)
- Efraim Feinstein presents the Open Siddur Project at NewCAJE, 2010
- Openness, remixability, and free Jewish culture: a response to Russel Neiss — from Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- An Economic Argument for Open Data — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- The Limits of Liturgical Change: selections of halakhic discourse with translations by Rav Ethan Tucker (sourcesheet)
- A Tale of Two Codexes: The Aleppo and Leningrad Codex
- Thankful for the Internet Sacred Text Archive’s John Bruno Hare (1955-2010)
- Development Status (2010-08-15)
- Development Status (2010-02-15)
- Testing Our Transliteration Engine with help from James Strong’s Biblical Hebrew Dictionary
- Our hearts are stirred to create and to share — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, 2010)
- Jewish Content, Free Culture and “Content Compatibility” — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Why all the software? — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- An Invitation to Young Technologists — from Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Preserving Public Domain resources from Restrictive End User License Agreements in Proprietary Torah Databases — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, 2009)
- Software Architecture of the Open Siddur Web Application — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Feminist Influences on Jewish Liturgy: The Case of Israeli Reform Prayer (2009)
- Development Status (2009-11-11)
- Development Status (2009-09-22)
- Development Status (2009-08-23)
- 📰 “Prayer Unbound” (Hadara Graubart, Tablet Magazine 2009)
- 📰 “Prayer a la Carte” (Raphael Ahren, Haaretz 2009)
- Pirate Siddurim vs. Open Siddurim — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, PresenTense 2009)
- Spiritual Alienation and the Siddur — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2009)
- Why, davka, an Open Siddur Project? — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, PresenTense 2009)
- On Sharing Siddur Texts — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, PresenTense 2009)
- Logo for the Open Siddur Project, by Aharon Varady (2009)
- First Pitch from the Hotseat at the PresenTense Start-Up Incubator (Aharon Varady 2009)
- PresenTense Institute Summer Workshop (Aharon Varady 2009)
- Masking the Liturgy: a pedagogy for learning the Siddur, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (2003)
- על הניסים ליום העצמאות | Al Hanissim for Yom ha-Atsma’ut: Theological & Liturgical Reflections, by Yehonatan Chipman (2003)
- SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE ♡ A Decision Tree for Choosing Free-Culture Compatible Open Content Licenses for Cultural & Technological Work
- Isles Of The Forsaken, an illustration of the plight of Agunot by Ilene Winn-Lederer (2002)
- על השואה ועל התפלתה | Prayer in the Shoah, an essay and a prayer by Rabbi Dr. David Weiss Halivni (2000)
- Blessings and Ethics: The Spiritual Life of Justice, a dvar tefillah on berakhot by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (1997)
- Kavvana: Directing the Heart in Jewish Prayer, by Rabbi Dr. Seth Kadish (1997)
- Concerning Intolerance of New Practices in Jewish Prayer, by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1989)
- Meaning What We Pray, Praying What We Mean: The Otherness of the Liturgy, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (1989)
- Prayers that Hurt: Public Prayer in Interfaith Settings, by Rabbi Chaplain (Captain) Arnold E. Resnicoff, USN, Ret. (1987, 2009)
- 📰 “Database Davvenen” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (circa mid-1980s)
- 📰 “Color-Coded Prayerbook Devised by Rabbi” (Martin Lauer, Springfield Republican 1972)
- “On Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1969)
- Introduction [to the Siddur], by Rabbi Dr. Israel Wolf Slotki (1964)
- “The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1953)
- Primary sources in open-source Judaism: Rabbi Yitsḥoq Hutner’s Paḥad Yitzḥoq, Rosh haShanah Ma’amar Bet
- “Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1945)
- On the Good of Prayer, an essay by Lilian Helen Montagu (March 1939)
- Das Gebet Als Äußerung Und Einfühlung | Prayer as Expression and Empathy, by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1939)
- Gebet im Judentum | Prayer in Judaism, by Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck (1935)
- ספר רפואת הנפש, פרק ב׳ — תפלה | Sefer Refuat haNefesh — chapter 2: Prayer, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1934)
- Emma Goldman on “Everybody’s Right to Beautiful, Radiant Things” (1931)
- Jewish Science and Health — chapter 3: Prayer, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1925)
- שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari (ca. late 19th – early 20th c. Herat, Afghanistan)
- Rules of Etiquette for Public Prayer, by Isaac Seligman Baer (1868)
- On Composing Prayers Outside of the Prayerbook, an introduction by Isaac Leeser to “Two Short Prayers” (1851)
- Thoughts on Family Prayer, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1840)
- 📄 Sourcetexts on Jewish Prayer and Spirituality, compiled by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
- On the Legitimacy of Jewish Women’s Prayer, by Leah Horowitz (ca. 1790)
- A Brief Account of the Jewish Prayers, by Isaac Abendana (1695)
- 📄 הגדה לסדר פסח | The Ritual of the Seder and the Agada of the English Jews Before the Expulsion (1287)
- הנסים שהיו על הים סוף | The Miracles at the Sea of Reeds as related in Rambam’s commentary on the Pirqei Avot
- להבין את התפלה | Rav Amram Gaon’s letter to Rav Yitzḥok b. Shimon of Sepharad, circa 9th century
- בִּרְכַּת הַקֶּשֶׁת | the Blessing upon observing a Rainbow (with art by Ilene Winn-Lederer)
- Ὑμνεῖν με δεῖ τὸν θεόν | “I Must Praise God,” excerpted from the Discourses of Epictetus
“Complete List of Miscellaneous Items shared through the project so far” is shared through the Open Siddur Project under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license.
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