Support this work: | The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture. If you like what you've found here, please help keep our project alive and online with your financial contribution.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 |
Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber of works in the Public Domain for the Open Siddur Project. 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. (As founding director of the Open Siddur Project, he also serves as an editor and website administrator of 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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- פָּרָשַׁת חַיֵּי שָׂרָה | Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18), color-coded according to its narrative layers
Categories: Bereishit (Genesis), Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah Tags: mythopoesis, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, Parashat haShavua, 31st century A.M., 8th century B.C.E., redaction criticism, parashot, חיי שרה, camels
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- יום העבודה | Salvation through Avodah, a prayer for the Sabbath before Labor Day, adapted from the writings of A.D. Gordon by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: May Day, Morning Torah Reading, Labor Day Tags: 20th century C.E., Teva, labor, 58th century A.M., work, Nature, Labor Zionism, Hapoel Hatsair, Yom Ha'Avodah, work as worship, worship as work
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- Courage to Withstand the Ridicule of the Worldly, a prayer by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Work Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Psalms 4, English vernacular prayer, Amits Koaḥ, lonely man of faith, social anxiety, yetser hara, loneliness, ayin hara, lashon hara, apotropaic prayers of protection
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- That Religion Be Not a Cloak for Hypocrisy, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Tisha b'Av, Roleplaying 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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- תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ אִיָיר | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Iyyar (1877)
Categories: Iyyar Tags: 19th century C.E., Miriam, tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Leah, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, the second month, Taurus, Mazal Shor, Shevet Issachar, In the merit of Miriam, Miriam's well, Manna
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- תְּפִילַּת הַנּוֹטֵעַ | Prayer for a Tree Planting on Tu biShvat, by Rav Ben-Tsiyon Meir Ḥai Uziel (before 1942)
Categories: Rosh haShanah for Ilanot (Fruit Trees) a/k/a Tu biShvat Tags: 20th century C.E., Erets Yisrael, Planting, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Prayers for Planting, Early Religious Zionist, planting trees, Zionist Arbor Day Prayers, JNF, KKL, קקל
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- Méditation Pour Le Jeudi | Meditation for Thursday (the Fifth Day), by R’ Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery (1848), translated to English by Isaac Leeser (1863)
Categories: Shaḥarit, Thursday Tags: 19th century C.E., English Translation, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, French Jewry, Thursday, Psalms 81, Shir Shel Yom, Psalm of the Day, French vernacular prayer, North American Jewry, Paraliturgical Psalms 81, the fifth day
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- ראש חדש | Au Renouvellememt Du Mois | At the New Moon, by Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery (1848), translated to English by Isaac Leeser (1863)
Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh, ☽ Prayers arranged by the Moon, Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Morning Torah Reading, Tamuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Marḥeshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shvat, Adar Tags: 19th century C.E., English Translation, shabbat mevorkhim, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, North American Jewry, Paraliturgical Prayer for the New Month
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- Betrachtung, wenn der Neumond eingesegnet wird | Prayer on the Sabbath Prior to the New Moon, by Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda (1855)
Categories: ☽ Prayers arranged by the Moon, Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Tamuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Marḥeshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shvat, Adar Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry
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- Am Neumonde | Prayer for the Day of New Moon, by Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda (1855)
Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh, ☽ Prayers arranged by the Moon, Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Tamuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Marḥeshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shvat, Adar Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry
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- the past didn’t go anywhere: making resistance to antisemitism part of all of our movements, by April Rosenblum (2007)
Categories: Modern, Purim Tags: liberation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., combating antisemitism, solidarity, combating anti-Jewish oppression, particularism and universalism, who we are, Jewish Radicalism, Jewish liberation, shfokh ḥamatkha
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- תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ נִיסָן | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (1877)
Categories: Nisan Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Leah, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, Mazal Taleh, Aries, Shevet Yehudah, the first month, naḥshon ben aminadav
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- תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ אַדָר | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Adar [II] (1877)
Categories: Purim, Adar Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Bilhah, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, Pisces, Naphtali, Mazal Dagim, Mordekhai, Esther, Haman, Needing Transcription
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- תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ אַדָר רִאשׁוֹן | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Adar I for Leap Years (1877)
Categories: Adar Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Bilhah, In the merit of Moshe Rabbeinu, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, Pisces, Naphtali, Mazal Dagim
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- תפילה לעבודת האדמה | Prayer for Working the Soil, by Rabbi Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi (ca. 1911)
Categories: Rosh haShanah for Ilanot (Fruit Trees) a/k/a Tu biShvat, Work Tags: 20th century C.E., farming, Erets Yisrael, 57th century A.M., Yemenite Jewry, Jewish Farming, Problematic prayers, Prayers for Planting, Early Religious Zionist, Yemenite Aliyah, Shami, Needing Vocalization
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- תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ שְׁבָט | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Shvat (1877)
Categories: Shvat Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, In the merit of Moshe Rabbeinu, Asher, Zilpah, Mazal D'li, Aquarius, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh
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