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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.

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📖 סידור תהילת ה׳ ידבר פי | Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yedaber Pi, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (2009)

Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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. . . .


📖 Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951)

Contributed by: Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR], Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. . . .


📖 Supplementary Prayers and Readings for the High Holidays, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1934)

Contributed by: Mordecai Kaplan, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

The first prayerbook compiled by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, published by the United Synagogue as a selection of supplemental readings on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. . . .


📖 Techinah-Book, by Rabbi Simon Glazer (1930)

Contributed by: Simon Glazer, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

A collection of teḥinot, in English, edited by Rabbi Simon Glazer. . . .


📖 לקוטי תפלות | Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers, compiled and edited by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak (1927)

Contributed by: Jacob Bosniak, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

A collection of dedicatory and circumstantial prayers by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak and other rabbis. . . .


📖 Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors, by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron (1918)

Contributed by: Morris Samuel Lazaron, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

An ecumenical prayerbook for men serving as United States military personnel during what later became known as World War Ⅰ. . . .


📖 Prayers for Trench and Base, by Lt. Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1918)

Contributed by: Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

A small prayerbook for British-Jewish men serving as military personnel on behalf of the British Empire during what later became known as World War Ⅰ. . . .


📖 Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old, arranged and written by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)

Contributed by: Annie Josephine Levi, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old (1900) is a collection of teḥinot in English, selected, arranged, and written by Annie Josephine Levi. The introduction was written by the Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. We know very little else about Levi save that she contributed short stories, poems, and essays to periodicals and was active from 1895-1905. (If you know more about her, please contact us.) . . .


📖 Prayers for Jewish Working Girls, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Lilian Helen Montagu

Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895) is a collection of prayers in vernacular English by Lilian Helen Montagu (1873-1963). The prayerbook was dedicated to the members of the West Central Girls’ Club, founded in 1893 by Lilian and co-led by her and her sister Marian Montagu. . . .