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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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- אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז) | Adōn Olam, translated by Alice Lucas (1894)
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
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- אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז) | Adōn Olam, translated by Ben Zion Bokser (1957)
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
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- אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז) | Adōn Olam (United Synagogue of America, 1927)
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam, ABBA rhyming scheme
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- אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז) | Adōn Olam (Rabbinical Assembly & United Synagogue of America, 1946)
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
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- Iwo Jima Memorial Address at Fifth Marine Division Cemetery, by Rabbi Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn (21 March 1945)
Categories: Modern Miscellany, National Brotherhood Week, Memorial (Decoration) Day Readings Tags: 20th century C.E., pluralism, United States, democracy, 58th century A.M., World War II, Eulogy, anti-fascist, anti-racist
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- אֲשֶׁר יָצַר | Asher Yatsar, interpretive translation by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Asher Yatsar Tags: interpretive translation, four worlds, English Translation, Late Antiquity, excretion, אשר יצר Asher Yatsar, אשר יצר, Bathroom Prayer, Body as Temple, אדם קדמון Adam Ḳadmon, Body as Cosmos, Asiyah, Body as Earth, Body as Society, Bathroom etiquette, urination, plumbing as metaphor, internal plumbing, Amoraic prayers, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, Prayers of Pumbedita, devotional interpretation
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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, המזבח the Mizbe'aḥ, prayers for dedications and commissioning, 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 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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- בִּרְכָּת הָבָּיִת | Birkat Habayit: Blessing for the Home
Categories: Incantations & Amulets, Home, Theurgy Tags: 19th century C.E., קמעות kame'ot, 56th century A.M., Epidemic, Asiatic Cholera, Pandemic, ברכת הבית birkat habayit, קמעות amulets, Needing Attribution
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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, Tishah 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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- ליקוטי תפילות חלק א׳ תפילה קמ״ה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot I:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemirov (early 19th century)
Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Sukkot, Kosher Slaughter 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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