A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Friday, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau

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Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M.

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Hallelujah! With pious sentiments my soul lifts itself up unto Thee O Father, and tunes forth sacred psalms. On the sixth day of the Creation, after Thou didst bless the earth with everything in abundance, and made it a paradise, then resounded the voice of Thy impenetrable wisdom: now we will make a being in our own image! and thus was man made, who, although the last of the creation, became the chief of all that was created before him by the sublime gifts of the mind with which Thou hast endowed him. The rich fulness of higher powers, which he developes in a thousandfold exercises, constitutes him the ruler, the King of the earth. But not for this short life, O Eternal, hast Thou created us; not for the sake of enjoying the transient goods of this world, didst Thou breathe a soul into man; but for the life yonder, for life eternal, for which we are to prepare ourselves here beneath. Here the seeds of good are to be sown, but yonder they shall be reaped.

O, may this belief in its full clearness ever penetrate my spirit; may the conviction that all men, though separated in their earthly relations, are united by one holy vocation never vanish from my memory; may the sublime idea, that all mankind are to constitute one community of God, whilst we are all His children, and He is father of all men—may this elevating thought ever penetrate me and every other human being, in order that everyone by everyone be esteemed as a member of Thy realm. Be it the highest delight of every one to delight others; to obey the voice of justice, in order that we all, even all, may attain that sublime aim which Thy great kindness and merciful compassion has appointed for all men; and that there may be soon fulfilled the words of our holy prophet: “וְהָיָה יְהוָה לְמֶלֶךְ עַל־כָּל־הָאָרֶץ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִהְיֶה יְהוָה אֶחָד וּשְׁמוֹ אֶחָד” “That the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day the Lord shall be one and his name one.” Amen.

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1	Zechariah 14:9.

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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.)

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau

Marcus Heinrich (also Mordecai Ḥayyim/Hyman/Heyman) Bresslau (ca. 1808-15 May 1864) was a Hebraist and newspaper editor. Born in Hamburg, he settled in England when young. For some time from 1834 he was Baal Ḳoreh (reader) at the Western Synagogue. He then taught Hebrew at the Westminster Jews’ Free School and went on to tutor privately. A maskil, he became involved with M. J. Raphall’s Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (1834-6). In October 1844 he was appointed editor of the relaunched Jewish Chronicle by proprietor Joseph Mitchell. Prickly and quarrelsome, he resigned in July 1848 but returned in around September. He remained until about October 1850. After Mitchell’s death in June 1854 he became proprietor (his middle name appearing as Heyman) and edited it until February 1855 when new proprietor Abraham Benisch succeeded him. Bresslau, who tried vainly to revive the Hebrew Review, wrote Hebrew poetry, produced a Hebrew grammar and a Hebrew dictionary, and translated various Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Bresslau compiled (we think) the first compilation of teḥinot in English for women. (Much of this information via Bresslau's entry in The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History)

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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