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A list of all the miscellaneous resources shared through the Open Siddur Project, sorted alphabetically.
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.
- “On Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1969)
- “Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1945)
- “The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1953)
- 📄 Sourcetexts on Jewish Prayer and Spirituality, compiled by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman
- 📄 הגדה לסדר פסח | The Ritual of the Seder and the Agada of the English Jews Before the Expulsion (1287)
- 📕︎ “A Case Study on the Open Siddur Project,” by Gabrielle Girau Pieck (University of Basel, 2014)
- 📕︎ “People of the (Open Source) Book” by Dan Mendelsohn Aviv (Key Publishing, 2012)
- 📰 “Database Davvenen” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (circa mid-1980s)
- 📰 “Prayer Unbound” (Hadara Graubart, Tablet Magazine 2009)
- 📰 “The Open Siddur: A next generation communal Jewish educational resource,” by Dr. Efraim Feinstein and Dr. Devorah Preiss (Jewish Educational Leadership, Lookstein Center 2010 )
- 📰 “מאַכט אײַער אייגענעם סידור!” (Yoel Matveyev, Yiddish Daily Forverts 2019)
- 📰 “Color-Coded Prayerbook Devised by Rabbi” (Martin Lauer, Springfield Republican 1972)
- 📰 “Taking Prayer Into Their Own Hands” (Steve Lipman, New York Jewish Week 2010)
- 📰 “Ten Commandments of Jewish Social Networking” (Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles 2010)
- 📰 “Prayer a la Carte” (Raphael Ahren, Haaretz 2009)
- A Tale of Two Codexes: The Aleppo and Leningrad Codex
- Access, Sharing, and Innovation through Digitization and the Public Domain — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2010)
- An Economic Argument for Open Data — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- An interview with Aharon Varady on Open Source Judaism (Radio613, 2010)
- An Introduction to the Open Siddur Project at the National Museum of American Jewish History (8 December 2019)
- An Invitation to Young Technologists — from Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Blessings and Ethics: The Spiritual Life of Justice, a dvar tefillah on berakhot by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (1997)
- Complete List of Miscellaneous Items shared through the project so far
- Complete List of Prayers, &c. shared through the project so far
- Complete List of Readings, &c. shared through the project so far
- Complete List of Siddurim, &c. shared through the project so far
- Concerning Intolerance of New Practices in Jewish Prayer, by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1989)
- Contributor Activity Heatmap
- Copyright and Commercial Use: the Problem with Creative Commons’ Non-Commercial Use Licenses (Efraim Feinstein, 2010)
- Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception”
- Das Gebet Als Äußerung Und Einfühlung | Prayer as Expression and Empathy, by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1939)
- Development Status (2009-08-23)
- Development Status (2009-09-22)
- Development Status (2009-11-11)
- Development Status (2010-02-15)
- Development Status (2010-08-15)
- Efraim Feinstein presents the Open Siddur Project at NewCAJE, 2010
- Emma Goldman on “Everybody’s Right to Beautiful, Radiant Things” (1931)
- Feminist Influences on Jewish Liturgy: The Case of Israeli Reform Prayer (2009)
- First Pitch from the Hotseat at the PresenTense Start-Up Incubator (Aharon Varady 2009)
- Fully Egalitarian Ketubah from Naomi & Beverly Socher-Lerner’s Wedding
- Gebet im Judentum | Prayer in Judaism, by Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck (1935)
- Gender Neutralizing Ketubbah with Instructions by Jonah Rank and Raysh Weiss
- How to Annotate Your Siddur (sourcesheet), by Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
- How to craft a small siddur or bentsher by Aharon Varady
- Introduction [to the Siddur], by Rabbi Dr. Israel Wolf Slotki (1964)
- Isles Of The Forsaken, an illustration of the plight of Agunot by Ilene Winn-Lederer (2002)
- It’s All Greek To Me–Praying in Languages Other than Hebrew (sourcesheet) by R’ Ethan Tucker
- Jewish Content, Free Culture and “Content Compatibility” — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Jewish Science and Health — chapter 3: Prayer, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1925)
- Kavvana: Directing the Heart in Jewish Prayer, by Rabbi Dr. Seth Kadish (1997)
- Line and letter art, by Emily K
- List of Compilations
- List of Miscellanies
- Logo for the Open Siddur Project, by Aharon Varady (2009)
- Masking the Liturgy: a pedagogy for learning the Siddur, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (2003)
- Meaning What We Pray, Praying What We Mean: The Otherness of the Liturgy, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Gutoff (1989)
- Musical Liturgy and Traditions of Colonial American Jews
- On Composing Prayers Outside of the Prayerbook, an introduction by Isaac Leeser to “Two Short Prayers” (1851)
- On Sharing Siddur Texts — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, PresenTense 2009)
- On the Good of Prayer, an essay by Lilian Helen Montagu (March 1939)
- On the Open Siddur Project, a brochure presented at the Spring Intensive of the Academy for Jewish Religion by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2010)
- Openness, remixability, and free Jewish culture: a response to Russel Neiss — from Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Our hearts are stirred to create and to share — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, 2010)
- Pew Study of American Jewry: A Few Grains of Salt by Dr. Samuel Klausner
- Pirate Siddurim vs. Open Siddurim — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, PresenTense 2009)
- Prayers that Hurt: Public Prayer in Interfaith Settings, by Rabbi Chaplain (Captain) Arnold E. Resnicoff, USN, Ret. (1987, 2009)
- PresenTense Institute Summer Workshop (Aharon Varady 2009)
- Preserving Public Domain resources from Restrictive End User License Agreements in Proprietary Torah Databases — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, 2009)
- Primary sources in open-source Judaism: Rabbi Yitsḥoq Hutner’s Paḥad Yitzḥoq, Rosh haShanah Ma’amar Bet
- Public policy, technology, and copyright in Halakha: a sourcesheet
- Publicly funded work of Jewish non-profits should be shared with Open Content licensing (Future of Jewish Non Profit Summit, 2010)
- Rules of Etiquette for Public Prayer, by Isaac Seligman Baer (1868)
- SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE ♡ A Decision Tree for Choosing Free-Culture Compatible Open Content Licenses for Cultural & Technological Work
- Shiviti (scalable vector graphic) art, by Yaakov Love
- Siddur Class: Sourcesheets from Amit Gvaryahu’s Shiur on Tefillah
- Software Architecture of the Open Siddur Web Application — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Some thoughts on God’s proper, ineffable name — a d’var tefillah by Shoshana Michael Zucker
- Spiritual Alienation and the Siddur — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur 2009)
- STOP ACTA & TPP from Undermining Free Speech on the Internet
- Technology is a “plus” not “or” proposition: thoughts after NewCAJE — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2010)
- Teshuvah on Ketubbah Where Woman Acquires Man, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- Testing Our Transliteration Engine with help from James Strong’s Biblical Hebrew Dictionary
- Testing Web browsers as Platforms for Hebrew Text Publishing
- Thankful for the Internet Sacred Text Archive’s John Bruno Hare (1955-2010)
- 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)
- The Limits of Liturgical Change: selections of halakhic discourse with translations by Rav Ethan Tucker (sourcesheet)
- The twelve hued rainbow above the Sea of Reeds during the miracle of its division into twelve channels of liberation
- Thoughts on Family Prayer, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1840)
- Why all the software? — by Efraim Feinstein (Open Siddur 2009)
- Why, davka, an Open Siddur Project? — by Aharon Varady (Open Siddur, PresenTense 2009)
- Ὑμνεῖν με δεῖ τὸν θεόν | “I Must Praise God,” excerpted from the Discourses of Epictetus by Rabbi Morrison David Bial
- אֵל בָּרוּךְ | El Barukh, an alphabetic acrostic piyyut together with the lyrics to Aleph Bass by Darshan
- בלוז פון חלה | How the Grateful Dead, Jewish Text, and Worship Explain One Another and Raise Interesting Questions, by Virginia Spatz
- בִּרְכַּת הַקֶּשֶׁת | the Blessing upon observing a Rainbow (with art by Ilene Winn-Lederer)
- האותיות של האבג״ד בעברית | A Periodic Table of the Hebrew Aleph Bet Emphasizing Phonetic Grouping, Symbolic Association, and Diversity of Letter Form
- הנני ☞ Hineni: Here I Am, a bookmark for your Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur maḥzor by Lieba B. Ruth
- חנוכה שמח – מנדלה | Ḥanukkah Sameaḥ Mandala by Ḥatul Yehudi (Cat Jew)
- להבין את התפלה | Rav Amram Gaon’s letter to Rav Yitzḥok b. Shimon of Sepharad, circa 9th century
- נֻסְחָאוֹת | A Historical Map of Jewish Liturgical Influence and Variation, by Aharon Varady after Joseph Heinemann
- סדר אושפיזין / אושפיזתא | Seder Ushpizin and Ushpizata: Inviting the Avot and Imahot into your Sukkah by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)
- ספר רפואת הנפש, פרק ב׳ — תפלה | Sefer Refuat haNefesh — chapter 2: Prayer, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1934)
- על הניסים ליום העצמאות | Al Hanissim for Yom ha-Atsma’ut: Theological & Liturgical Reflections, by Yehonatan Chipman (2003)
- על השואה ועל התפלתה | Prayer in the Shoah, an essay and a prayer by Rabbi Dr. David Weiss Halivni (2000)
- 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)
- שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti by Mashiaḥ Asgari (ca. late 19th – early 20th c. Herat, Afghanistan)
- שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti: perceiving the world as an expression of divine Oneness
- שטר ברית | Shtar Brit – Covenant for a Brit Ahuvim wedding, by Rebecca Ennen and Ari Weisbard
- שטרות לקישור נפשות | Documents for a Marriage from One Soulmate to Another by Raysh Weiss and Jonah Rank
- שמע | An illustrated meditation on the unification of imagination and awareness through empathy
- תהלים כ״ז | A D’var Tefillah on Zombies, Elul, and Psalms 27 by Rabbi Jessica Minnen
- תעודת גירות בישראל (קדם־גיל־מצות) | Certificate of Conversion for a Minor, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- תעודת גירות בישראל | Certificate of Conversion for an Adult, 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 זהות מאושרת בישראל | Certificate of Affirmation of Jewish Identity for an Adult, by Rabbi Jonah Rank
- 📄 ‘Make yourself into a maqom hefker’: Primary sources on open-source in Judaism (sourcesheet)
- 📖 סידור קבלת שבת | A Kabbalat Shabbat Siddur, illustrated by Daniel Nebenzahl (2012)
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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17
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