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Nava Hefetz and Shaul Vardi (translation)

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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (Arabic)	Translation (English)
אֲדוֹן כׇּל הַבְּרוּאִים, מֶלֶךְ שֶׁהַשָּׁלוֹם שֶׁלּוֹ, בָּרֵךְ אֶת יְלָדֵינוּ וְאֶת יַלְדֵי כׇּל הָעוֹלָם בִּבְרִיאוּת הַגּוּף, בְּרִיאוּת הַנֶּפֶשׁ וּבְרִיאוּת הָרוּחַ.	رب الخليقة ملك السلام بارك اولادنا واولاد العالم اجمع بصحة الجسد والنفس والروح	Creator of all life, sovereign of peace, Bless our children and the children of all the world With physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
אַתָּה שֶׁבָּרָאתָ אוֹתָם בְּצַלְמֶךָ, וּבְאַהֲבָה רַבָּה נָפַחְתָּ בָּם רוּחֲךָ הַצְלַח דָּרְכָם בְּעוֹלָמְךָ אֲשֶׁר בָּרָאתָ.	باري المخاليق على صورتك وبالمحبة الجمة بعثت فيهم الروح وفق دربهم بعالمك الذي خلقت	You who created them in Your image And lovingly imbued them with Your spirit, Let their paths be successful in this world that You created.
הָרֵק מֵחָסְנֶךָ עֲלֵיהֶם וְחָזֵק בְּרִיחֵי גּוּפָם וְנַפְשָׁם.	هب لهم من لدنك قوة واعضد اجسادهم وانفسهم	Give them of Your resilience and strengthen the sinews of their bodies and minds.
הֶיֵה שׁוֹמְרָם וּמַצִּילָם מִיַּד רְשָׁעָה, כִּי רַב חֶסֶד וְאֱמֶת אַתָּה.	احرسهم ونجهم من كل شر لانك الصدوق المنعم	Guard and save them from all evil For Your mercy and truth abound.
שִׂים שָׁלוֹם בָּאָרֶץ וְשִׂמְחַת עוֹלָם לְכׇל יוֹשְׁבֶיהָ. אָמֵן, כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן.	اجعل السلام يعم البلاد وبهجة ابدية لكل البشر فلتكن مشيئتك آمين	Grant peace to the Land and everlasting happiness to all its inhabitants. Amen, may it be Your will

“תפילה למען ילדי העולם | Prayer for the Children of the World, by Rabbi Nava Hefetz” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

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Nava Hefetz

Rabbi Nava Hefetz is the Director of Education for Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel. In her role, she works with Israeli communities to expose them to the reality of the Occupation, examining its repercussions from a Jewish-universal standpoint. Nava also coordinates an Israeli-Palestinian women's group that meets in Jerusalem.

Shaul Vardi (translation)

Shaul Vardi is a freelance translator and editor living in Jerusalem and active in the Reform community Kol HaNeshama (KKH). Among other liturgical projects, Shaul devised the transliteration methods used in KKH’s bilingual Siddur and in the bilingual accompaniment to the new Israeli Reform Siddur Tefilat Ha-Adam. He also composed the first Hebrew-language “mi she-berakh” for LGBTQI+ Pride Shabbat.

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11 comments to תפילה למען ילדי העולם | Prayer for the Children of the World, by Rabbi Nava Hefetz

• Nancy Kaplan

  2015-10-16 at 8:30 am · Reply.

  The “translation ” [sic] provided by Bing on Facebook is atrocious. Glad I could find the correct English version on your website. Thank you for posting this beautiful prayer..

• Rabbi Riqi Kosovske

  2015-10-16 at 9:42 am · Reply.

  Can you post this as a PDF – otherwise it is really hard to cut and past and print onto one page for use in handout at services tonight. Thank you!

  • The Hierophant

    2015-10-16 at 12:21 pm · Reply.

    There is a print to PDF link just below the title and byline of this and every post here on opensiddur.org.

• Shayndel (Sheryl) Adler-Eldridge

  2017-10-01 at 11:58 pm · Reply.

  Hi! I am interested in vocalizing this. Would you be willing to transcribe as addressing a feminine Divinity and post with the Hebrew vowels included?

  • Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

    2017-10-02 at 12:17 am · Reply.

    Great! Please add niqqud (vocalization). I’m not completely certain what you mean about our being willing to transcribe the prayer as it is already transcribed. (It will be fine if you gender the existing text through the niqqud as feminine.)

• Shayndel (Sheryl) Adler-Eldridge

  2017-10-02 at 12:22 am · Reply.

  Hi! I meant could you provide it in the Hebrew with vowels and addressing feminine Divinity? I am not fluent enough in Hebrew to do it correctly.

• Shaul Vardi

  2017-10-02 at 12:26 am · Reply.

  Adding the vowels to the existing text is not too difficult and I would be happy to do that over a couple of weeks.
  Creating a feminine version of the prayer is much more tricky. As you know it would require a lot of changes, and some challenges in terms of maintaining authentic Hebrew language (authentic can certainly mean innovative, but it can’t just mean a copy of English norms). In the next-to-last verse, for example, a feminine version of היה שומרם ומצילם needs some real thought.

• Shayndel (Sheryl) Adler-Eldridge

  2017-10-02 at 12:55 am · Reply.

  Shaul, if you could do it, it would be beautiful.

  • Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

    2018-06-25 at 11:45 am · Reply.

    The vocalization of the text is complete! Thank you Shaul.

    • Baruch Sienna

      2018-06-25 at 2:18 pm · Reply.

      Shouldn’t Bareich have a kamatz (tashlum dageish)?
      For sure, last paragraph should be v’simchat, not u-
      There is no reason for it not to be vuv.

      • Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

        2018-06-25 at 2:34 pm · Reply.

        Comments received and thank you! I just updated the post with your corrections.

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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