https://opensiddur.org/?p=20851An Untitled Prayer for Shaḥarit on days without Taḥanun after Psalms 15, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi2018-07-26 19:31:33In his <em>Siddur Tehilat Hashem Yedaber Pi</em> (2009), this untitled teḥinah appears just below Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi's translation of Psalms 15 (recited on joyful and celebrative days when Taḥanun is not recited) and just above the Psalms of the Day section. We are not certain whether this teḥinah is an original prayer by Reb Zalman, a translation of an existing teḥinah found for Taḥanun, or a composite of teḥinot found in the Taḥanun service.
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Dear God,
We take delight in the privilege
To be created for Your glory —
Not to walk about in confusion;
To feel in us,
Your implant of eternal life.
Open our hearts to Your Torah.
Secure in our hearts,
Love and Awe for You.
May we not waste our lives
Or cause discord.
We plead with You, Yah,
Our God,
Support of our Parents,
That in this life
We may be faithful to Your intent.
And that we may live,
To experience
The days of Mashiaḥ,
And the life of the world to come.
To trust in You, Yah,
Is our blessing.
I will keep chanting in Your honor,
And offer my gratefulness,
And not be silent.
Yah will prove trustworthy.
Yah shaped the worlds,
We can stake our trust on this.
Knowing how to call on You,
We can depend on You.
You never abandoned those
Who sought You, Yah.
This is true because—
You, Yah,
desire this.
In order that Your justice prevail,
You extend the Torah,
To be ever more
Compelling and strong.
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In his Siddur Tehilat Hashem Yedaber Pi (2009), this untitled teḥinah appears just below Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi’s translation of Psalms 15 (recited on joyful and celebrative days when Taḥanun is not recited) and just above the Psalms of the Day section. We are not certain whether this teḥinah is an original prayer by Reb Zalman, a translation of an existing teḥinah found for Taḥanun, or a composite of teḥinot found in the Taḥanun service.
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Rabbi Dr. Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, affectionately known as "Reb Zalman" (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014) was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Żółkiew, Poland (now Ukraine) and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy Regime but managed to flee the Nazi advance, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the ḤaBaD Hasidic movement while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served ḤaBaD communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He subsequently earned an M.A. in psychology of religion at Boston University, and a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. He was initially sent out to speak on college campuses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in the early 1960s, after experimenting with "the sacramental value of lysergic acid", the main ingredient in LSD, leadership within ḤaBaD circles cut ties with him. He continued teaching the Torah of Ḥassidut until the end of his life to creative, free and open-minded Jewish thinkers with humility and kindness and established warm ecumenical ties as well. In September 2009, he became the first contributor of a siddur to the Open Siddur Project database of Jewish liturgy and related work. Reb Zalman supported the Open Siddur Project telling its founder, "this is what I've been looking forward to!" and sharing among many additional works of liturgy, an interview he had with Havurah magazine in the early to mid-1980s detailing his vision of "Database Davenen." The Open Siddur Project is proud to be realizing one of Reb Zalman's long held dreams.
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