If you are not used to reading Hebrew with comprehension and with the ability to dilate the Hebrew from the literal meaning, or if you cannot read Hebrew and need a resource for daily davvenen, I offer you this set of texts, which I, too, use frequently for myself.

I translated the Psalms and the liturgy in the way in which I experience them in my feeling consciousness. This does not offer the ‘pshat’, the literal meaning of the words, but the devotional interpretation that can make it a prayer of the heart.

תפלות לחיילי צבא ארצות הברית Prayer Book for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (1984) is a trans-denominational and bilingual Hebrew-English siddur arranged by the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the Jewish Welfare Board. The siddur served to update the prayerbook offered by the organization in 1958. It included elements from The Traditional Prayer Book for Sabbaths and Festivals (ed. Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1960), The Gates of Prayer (ed. Rabbi Chaim Stern, 1975), and a siddur that had not yet been published in 1984: Sim Shalom (ed. Rabbi Jules Harlow, 1985). On the verso of the title page Rabbi Stephan O. Parnes is credited as editor, while Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, Rabbi Leonard S. Kravitz, and Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg are credited for their editorial work in preparing the manuscript of the siddur in the Acknowledgments section.

מַחֲזוֹר לְראֹשׁ השנה Majzor leRosh Hashanah (1976) is the first edition of a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi Rosh haShanah prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989). Rabbi Melamed had in 1971 been installed at the pulpit of the Cuban Sephardic Hebrew Congregation, after having served previously in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where his 1966 Hebrew-Portuguese siddur Tefilat Masliaḥ was first published. For both prayerbooks, as no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to Rabbi Melamed, liturgy was reproduced from images of older siddurim. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath.

This is the first edition of סִדּוּר תְּפִלַּת מַצְלִיחַ Sidur Tefillat Masliah (Libro de Oraciones) (1974), a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989). As no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to printers in Brazil, where Rabbi Matsliaḥ first began compiling prayerbooks, he developed a process of reproducing the liturgy from images of older siddurim and, occasionally, typewritten text. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath. This Spanish edition was preceded by a bilingual Hebrew-Portuguese edition published in Brazil in 1966.

הסדור המצוין Ha-siddur ha-Metsuyan, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook for most days in the liturgical custom of Ashkenaz, was compiled and translated by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld between 1969 and 1973. The siddur contains an abundance of textual references appearing as sidenotes to the translation.

הַגָּדָה שֶׁל פֶּסַח Hagada de Pesaj (1973) is the first edition of a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi Passover haggadah compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989). Rabbi Melamed had in 1971 been installed at the pulpit of the Cuban Sephardic Hebrew Congregation, after having served previously in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where his 1966 Hebrew-Portuguese siddur Tefilat Masliaḥ was first published. For that prayerbook, as with this haggadah, no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to Rabbi Melamed, so liturgy was reproduced from images of older authoritative works. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath.

מחזור ליום כיפור Majzor para Iom Kipur (1969) is a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish prayerbook for Rosh haShanah compiled and translated by Rabbi Mordechai Edery (1928-2010) and published by the World Council of [Conservative/Masorti] Synagogues under the supervision of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer (1930-1993). The Hebrew sourcetext is based primarily on the S&P siddurim compiled and translated by Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool. Other prayerbooks prepared with the Conservative movement represented mainly the Ashkenazi liturgical tradition. This maḥzor and its companion volume for Rosh haShanah are the only prayerbooks prepared for Sefaradi congregations by Conservative movement institutions (that we know of).

מַחֲזוֹר לְיוֹם כִּפּוּר Majzor leYom Kipur (Mexico: 1972) is the second edition of a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi Yom Kippur prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989), first published in 1968. (This “second edition” appears to be more of a “second printing” than an update or revision of the first edition.) As no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to Rabbi Melamed at the time, liturgy was reproduced from images of older siddurim. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath.

מחזור לראש השנה Majzor para Rosh haShanah (1968) is a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish prayerbook for Rosh haShanah compiled and translated by Rabbi Marcos Edery z”l, and published by the World Council of [Conservative/Masorti] Synagogues under the supervision of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer (1930-1993). Earlier prayerbooks represented the Ashkenazi liturgical tradition. Together with its companion volume for Yom Kippur, they are the only prayerbooks prepared for Sepharadi congreations in the Conservative movement. The Hebrew sourcetext is based primarily on the S&P siddurim compiled and translated by Rabbi Dr. Savid de Sola Pool. Besides the liturgy (in the Sefaradi nusaḥ), the prayerbook is prefaced by Seliḥot and includes essays concerning prayer by 20th century scholars in Spanish translation.

מחזור לראש השנה ויום כיפור Majzor para Rosh haShanah y Yom Kipur (1967) is a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish prayerbook for the Yamim Noraïm compiled and translated by Rabbi Marcos Edery z”l, and published by the World Council of [Conservative/Masorti] Synagogues under the supervision of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer (1930-1993). Rabbi Reubén Nisembom (1938-2023), then a student at the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano, proofread the maḥzor. Besides the liturgy (in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ), the prayerbook is prefaced by Seliḥot and includes essays concerning prayer by 20th century scholars in Spanish translation, such as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber.

ממחזור לחג הסכות Prayerbook for the Feast of Tabernacles (1967) is volume 8 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).

מחזור לשמיני עצרת ושמחת תורה Prayerbook for the Festivals [of Shemini Atseret and Simḥat Torah] is volume 9 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).

מחזור ליום ראשון ושני של פסח Prayerbook for [the first and second day of] Pesaḥ is volume 5 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).

מחזור ליום שביעי ושמיני של פסח Prayerbook for [the seventh and eighth day of] Pesaḥ is volume 6 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).

מחזור לחג השבועות Prayerbook for the Feast of Weeks is volume 7 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).

This is the first edition of Sidur Tefillat Matsliaḥ (1966), a bilingual Hebrew-Portugues nusaḥ Sefaradi prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989).

This prayer-leaflet was primarily intended for a group of Hebrew Union College students who met every sabbath afternoon for extra-curricular (noncredit) Torah study with Rabbi Dr. Jakob Petuchowki in the mid-1960s. Their service was conducted entirely in Hebrew and in the traditional nusaḥ with some minor but interesting Liberal innovations. Petuchowki writes, “We have omitted only the various repetitions as well as the prayer for the restoration of the sacrificial service. (But we have retained the place of Zion as the symbol of the messianic hope.) In the ‘Alenu prayer, we have preferred a positive formulation of the “Election of Israel” to the traditional negative one.”

סדר קינות השלם לתשעה באב The Authorised Kinot for the Ninth of Av (1965) is a comprehensive Hebrew-English maḥzor for Tishah b’Av according to the liturgical custom of Ashkenaz, as prepared by Rabbi Abraham Rosenfeld (1914-1984) under supervision of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Rabbi Israel Brodie.

מחזור לערבית יום כיפור Prayerbook for the Eve of Atonement (1965) is volume 3 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).

מחזור ליום כיפור Prayerbook for the Day of Atonement (1965) is volume 4 in a set of maḥzorim reprinting Wolf Heidenheim’s arrangement of liturgy according to the Ashkenazi custom, accompanied by an English translation by Jenny Marmorstein, z”l (1920-2020).