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Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project, which he founded and directs. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin, Ministarot Nakeni 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. Besides his transcription work, Varady occasionally translates prayers and contributes his own original work. (Varady also serves as editor and administrator of the Open Siddur Project website, opensiddur.org, and is an outspoken advocate for open-source in Judaism more of which can be read about in this interview in the Atlantic Magazine.)
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- Prayer for Brotherhood, by Stephen Vincent Benét on United Nations Flag Day (14 June 1942)
Categories: Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), United Nations Day (October 24th), Brotherhood Week (February 19th-28th), Flag Day (June 14) Tags: 20th century C.E., United States, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Universal Peace, World War II, vexillology, universalist prayers
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- Selections from 1 & 2 Maccabees and Pesiqta Rabbati on the Desecration and Rededication of the Temple and the Rekindling of the Sacred Fire
Categories: Second Temple Period, Ḥanukkah Readings Tags: kindling, Angels, Maccabees, combating anti-Jewish oppression, 2nd century B.C.E., 37th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, the Mizbe'aḥ, dedication, Maccabean Revolt, נר תמיד ner tamid
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- מְגִילַּת יְהוּדִית לְאָמְרָהּ בַּחֲנֻכָּה | Megillat Yehudit, the Medieval Scroll of Judith to be said on Ḥanukkah
Categories: Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat) Tags: women, Judith, anti-predatory, dairy foods, soporifics, resistance, Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, 14th century C.E., heroic women, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, 52nd century A.M., derivative work
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- מה אלו | “Who are these?” — the Origin of the Angels of Healing: Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Semanglof, as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira (ca. late first millennium)
Categories: Midrash Aggadah, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Theurgy Tags: Angels, prophylactic, קמעות kame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, epical narrative as ward, historiola, geonic period, origin stories, Angels of Healing
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- That Religion Be Not a Cloak for Hypocrisy, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), Roleplaying, Tisha b'Av Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Psalms 5, English vernacular prayer, false piety, religious hypocrisy, labor exploitation, Ḥillul Hashem, corruption, improper use of the crown, communal shame, difference disagreement and deviance, tolerance and intolerance, inclusion and exclusion
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- Prayer for a Sick Child, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, infants, prayers concerning children, childhood illness, English vernacular prayer, Prayers for Children, Prayers of Parental Guardians
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- ליקוטי תפילות חלק א׳ תפילה קמ״ה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot I:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemirov (early 19th century)
Categories: Kosher Slaughter, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Sukkot Tags: 19th century C.E., animals, Breslov, animal welfare, anti-predatory, Bratslav, 55th century A.M., Likutei Tefilot, Ḥasidei Bratslav, being human, menschlekite
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- Thanksgiving for Deliverance, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving Tags: 19th century C.E., Gratitude, thankfulness, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, thanksgiving, ברכת הגומל birkat hagomel, מודים Modim
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- Prayer of Thanksgiving on Recovering from Sickness, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving Tags: 19th century C.E., thankfulness, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, thanksgiving, ברכת הגומל birkat hagomel, מודים Modim
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- אמעריקע | America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee), a patriotic hymn by Samuel Francis Smith (1832)
Categories: Memorial Day (last Monday of May) Tags: 20th century C.E., United States, זמירות zemirot, 58th century A.M., Yiddish translation, Yiddish songs, American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic prayers, doikayt, hereness, God Save the Queen
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- פָּרָשַׁת בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ | Parashat b’Ha’alotekha (Numbers 8:1-12:16), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Categories: Parashat B'ha'alotekha, Sefer b'Midbar (Numbers) Tags: anti-predation, 35th century A.M., mythopoesis, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, 8th century B.C.E., redaction criticism, פרשות parashot, Midbar Sinai, Midbar Paran, בהעלתך b'Ha'alotekha
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- פָּרָשַׁת נָשֹׂא | Parashat Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Categories: Parashat Naso, Sefer b'Midbar (Numbers) Tags: mythopoesis, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, redaction criticism, פרשות parashot, Midbar Sinai, 6th century B.C.E., 33rd century A.M., במדבר Bamidbar, census, tribes, shlepping, breaking down, moving out, נשא, נזיר Nazir
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- פָּרָשַׁת בְּמִדְבַּר | Parashat b’Midbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Categories: Parashat b'Midbar, Sefer b'Midbar (Numbers) Tags: mythopoesis, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, redaction criticism, פרשות parashot, Midbar Sinai, 6th century B.C.E., 33rd century A.M., במדבר Bamidbar, census, tribes, shlepping, breaking down, moving out
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- פָּרָשַׁת בְּחֻקֹּתַי | Parashat b’Ḥuqotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Categories: Sefer Vayiqra (Leviticus), Parashat b'Ḥuqotai Tags: slavery, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, mythopoesis, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, redaction criticism, פרשות parashot, Har Sinai, 6th century B.C.E., 33rd century A.M., יובל Yovel Jubilee, שמיטה shmitah, בהר Behar, rosh hashanah l'behemah, בחקתי
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- פָּרָשַׁת בְּהַר | Parashat b’Har (Leviticus 25:1-26:2), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Categories: Sefer Vayiqra (Leviticus), Parashat b'Har Tags: slavery, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, mythopoesis, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, redaction criticism, פרשות parashot, Har Sinai, 6th century B.C.E., 33rd century A.M., יובל Yovel Jubilee, שמיטה shmitah, בהר Behar
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- היסטוריולה של סממית וסידרוס | Historiola of Smamit and Sideros, a reconstruction based on Amulet 15 & Amulet Bowl 12a
Categories: Theurgical Works, Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Theurgy Tags: Angels, Late Antiquity, prophylactic, קמעות kame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, epical narrative as ward, cold iron, iron in folklore, historiola, Angels of Healing
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