“Tefilah al ha-Arvut b’Ad Kol Yoshvei ha-Arets” was offered by הרבנית הדסה פרומן והרבה תמר אלעד־אפלבום (Rabbah Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, and Rebbitsen Hadassah Froman). I have transcribed the text of their prayer and set it side-by-side with an English translation offered by Noah Efron first shared on The Promised Podcast episode “Uncivil Disobedience?” (23 February 2023). The prayer was presented about an hour and eighteen minutes into the podcast. Noah framed his reading of the prayer through a description of his wife Susan offering it before lighting the Shabbat candles.

So we were about to light candles before Shabbat this past week, and Susan said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. And she took out her phone and she tapped the screen and she cleared her throat and she read from Tehilim, from Psalms chapter 122:8-9. . . . And then Susan read a prayer I never heard before, it went, in my not good enough translation. . . . And then Susan smiled and said as she powered down her phone for Shabbat, “it’s a thing by Rabbah Tamar Elad-Appelbaum and Rebbitsen Hadassah Froman, I just wanted to read it.” And then Susan struck a match and lit the Shabbat candles illuminating our home, and we said the prayer and kiss Shabbat alone.

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Translation (read by Noah Efron):

Prayer before Lighting Shabbat Candles (Rabbanit Haddasah Froman and Rabbah Tamar Elad-Appelbaum)

“תְּפִלָּה עַל הָעַרְבוּת בְּעַד כׇּל יוֹשְׁבֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | Prayer on Erev Shabbat for the Sake of All Residents of Israel, by Rebbitsen Hadassah Froman & Rabbah Tamar Elad-Appelbaum (2023)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Noah Efron (translation)

Noah Jonathan Efron (b. 1959) is a professor at Bar-Ilan University, where he was founding chair of the interdisciplinary program on Science, Technology, and Society. He has served as the President of the Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science, on the Board of Directors and Scientific Committee of the Eretz Yisrael Museum, and on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is a standing member of Israel's National Committee for Transgenic Plants, and participated in Knesset deliberations on human cloning legislation. Efron has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow of the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology at MIT, a fellow at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former member of the Tel Aviv City Council, a published author, and since 2011, the host of the popular The Promised Podcast.

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum

Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum is the founder of ZION: An Eretz Israeli Congregation in Jerusalem; and Vice President of the Masorti Rabbinical Assembly. Her work spans and links tradition and innovation, working toward Jewish spiritual and ethical renaissance. She devotes much of her energy to the renewal of community life in Israel and the struggle for human rights. Rabbi Elad-Appelbaum served as rabbi of Congregation Magen Avraham in the Negev; as a congregational rabbi in the New York suburbs alongside Rabbi Gordon Tucker; and as Assistant Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem. In 2010 she was named by the Forward as one of the five most influential female religious leaders in Israel for her work promoting pluralism and Jewish religious freedom.

Hadassah Froman

Rebbetsin Hadassah Froman, is a founder of the organization, Roots, and is a pioneer Jewish-Muslim peace activist who lives in the settlement of Tekoa. She was born and raised in Kibbutz Lavi in the Galil. She served in the army and went on to study education at Hebrew University. Hadassah has worked as a schoolteacher and adult educator. She now focuses much of her teaching on the Zohar, the foundational text of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah). Hadassah is the wife of the late Rabbi Menachem Froman and joined him in forging connections with Palestinian leaders for over thirty years until his death in 2010. She carries on his legacy through her commitment to peace efforts, spreading his poetry and teachings to young people in schools and in the army. She believes firmly in the importance of forging relationships with the Other: "To merit living in this country we must chose life and see the spark of God in everyone. We must remove the barriers between us and create a bridge, because anything is possible but it depends on us."

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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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