Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming translation and paraphrase of the blessing at bedtime (birkat hamapil) was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), pp. 89-90. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer by Jessie Ethel Sampter to accompany the bedtime shema was published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 44. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming paraphrase of the blessing before waving the lulav on Sukkot was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 17. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming paraphrase and translation of the blessing over the lighting of the Ḥanukkiah was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 31. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation and supplement for the blessing before listening to Megilat Esther on Purim was made by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 48. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing upon seeing lightning was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 88. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing upon hearing thunder was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 87. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical prayer for the end of Shabbat havdalah was made by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 64. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing over kindling the Shabbat candles was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 80. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer-poem on receiving a parent’s Sabbath Blessing was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 25. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming translation for the Birkat haMazon (blessing after eating a meal with bread) was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 86. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation of the blessing sheheḥiyanu was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published under the title “Blessing for Rosh-Hashanah” in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 11. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating bread was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 82. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating vegetation, vegetables, and fruit of the earth was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 84. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating all other foods (besides bread, fruits, vegetation and vegetables) was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 85. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating fruit of trees was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 83. . . .
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing over hand washing was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 81. . . .
Contributed by: Eugene Kohn, Hillel Zeitlin, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer by Hillel Zeitlin was published as “That We Be Reborn” with an English translation by Eugene Kohn in the Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1945) of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. I have slightly modified Kohn’s translation by replacing thee and thou with you and your, etc. Zeitlin’s prayer is undated and likely was published earlier and elsewhere. If you have more information on the original publication of this prayer, please contact us or leave a comment. . . .
Contributed by: Avraham Yitsḥaq haKohen Quq, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A religious Zionist national anthem composed by Rav Kook in response to the secular Zionist Hatikvah. . . .
Contributed by: Israel Mattuck, Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer upon the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty on 28 June 1919, included in a special service by the Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London on the following Shabbat. . . .