מי שברך לתקופת יום הולדת | Mi sheBerakh on behalf of one celebrating a birthday, by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (1945)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, During the Aliyot, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Old Age

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מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ אֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיַעֲקֹב הוּא יְבָרֵךְ אֶת (…) לִתְקוּפַת יוֹם הֻלַּדְתּוֹ/הֻלַּדְתָּהּ.	May the One who blessed our fathers, Avraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya’aqov, bless (…) on the (…) anniversary of their birthday.
הָאֱלֹהִים הָרוֹעֶה אוֹתוֹ מֵעוֹדוֹ/אוֹתָהּ מֵעוֹדָהּ עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יִשְׁמְרֵֽהוּ/יִשְׁמְרֶֽהָ וִיחַיֵּֽהוּ/וִיחַיֶּֽהָ וִיאַשְּׁרֵֽהוּ/וִיאַשְּׁרֶֽהָ	May Elohim who enabled them to live to this day continue their mercies and grant them many more years of health and happiness.
וְיוֹסִיף לוֹ/לָהּ שְׁנוֹת חַיִּים וּבְרָכָה בְּטוֹב וּבִנְעִימוֹת בְּרָב־עֹז וְשָׁלוֹם וְנָֽסוּ יָגוֹן וַאֲנָחָה.	May [Elohim] keep them free from all anxieties and bodily ills.
יְחַדֵּֽהוּ/יְחַדֶּֽהָ בְאֽשֶׁר וּבְשִׂמְחַת לֵבָב שֶׁל־כׇּל־אֲהוּבֵי נַפְשׁוֹ/נַפְשָׁהּ	May [Elohim] cause them to rejoice in the happiness of all who are dear to them.
וִימַלֵּא כׇּל־מִשְׁאֲלוֹת לִבּוֹ/לִבָּהּ תִּקְווֹתָיו/תִּקְווֹתֶֽיהָ וּתְפִלּוֹתָיו/וּתְפִלּוֹתֶֽיהָ לְטוֹבָה.	May [Elohim] enable them to behold the fulfilment of all their worthy hopes and prayers.
אָמֵן׃	Amen.
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהֶחֱיָֽנוּ וְקִיְּמָֽנוּ וְהִגִּיעָֽנוּ לַזְּמָן הַזֶּה:	Blessed be you YHVH our elo’ah King of the universe who has kept us in life, sustained us and brought us to this happy occasion.

“Prayer in behalf of one celebrating a birthday,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 494-497 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945). I have adapted the original text of this prayer, replacing “thou” with ‘you’, “Lord” with ‘YHVH’, and “God” with ‘elo’ah’. I have replaced him/her formulations with the singular ‘they’ and replaced masculine pronouns with the divine name, Elohim, as invoked at the beginning of the prayer. –Aharon N. Varady

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“מי שברך לתקופת יום הולדת | Mi sheBerakh on behalf of one celebrating a birthday, by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (1945)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Aharon N. Varady (editing/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.)

Mordecai Kaplan

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983), was a rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator and the co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.

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