The “Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem” by the late chief rabbi of Ḥaifa, Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen zt”l (1927-2016), is often included in programs praying for peace in Jerusalem in periods of conflict. The text we have transcribed here is that found in the 2009 Jerusalem Day program of the Union of Synagogues in Israel. We do not know whether the prayer was authored and published at an earlier date or whether it was composed by the chief rabbi of Haifa for this project. A slightly different version can be heard sung in the recording by Ovadia Hamama.

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English translation by Aharon Varady with corrections and improvements offered by Ya’qub ibn Yusuf. Niqqud corrections by Rabbi Dr. Seth (Avi) Kadish. For an alternative English translation, see here.

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“תפילה לשלום ירושלים | Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem, by Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen

Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen (אליהו יוסף שאר ישוב כהן; November 4, 1927 – September 5, 2016) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Ḥaifa, Israel and the President of its rabbinical courts (1975–2011).

Aharon N. Varady (translation)

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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