Erhöre, Herr, mein Wort | Accept, O Lord my word — from the Hamburg Temple Hymnal (1833)
Contributed on: 28 May 2023 by
❧“Erhöre, Herr, mein Wort” is a hymn selected by Rabbi Gotthold Salomon, Immanuel Wohlwill, and Maimon Fraenkel for inclusion in the Hamburg Temple Hymnal (1833), hymn №300, pp. 367-368. The first three stanzas were translated by Rabbi James Koppel Gutheim and published as “Erhebung zu Gott! (Trust in God)” in his Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871) as hymn №2, pp. 4-5. . . .
אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eshet Ḥayil (Proverbs 31:10-31), German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)
Contributed on: 06 Aug 2021 by
❧The Masoretic Hebrew text of Proverbs 30:10-31, the alphabetic acrostic “Eshet Ḥayil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .
Eternal, Almighty, Invisible God! – a hymn on “Praise and Thanksgiving” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)
Contributed on: 28 Oct 2021 by
❧“Eternal, Almighty, Invisible God! ” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Praise and Thanksgiving” as Hymn 44 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 47-48. . . .
Eternal Love is Thine, a hymn for Yom Kippur by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)
Contributed on: 12 Oct 2021 by
❧“Eternal love is Thine,” by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (ca.1800-1876), first publishedin 1842, appears under the subject “Day of Atonement: Yom HaKippureem” as Hymn 62 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 64. . . .
Étkezés utáni ima | Gebet nach dem Speisen | Prayer after the meal, a paraliturgical Birkat haMazon by Rabbi Arnold Kiss (1897)
Contributed on: 26 Aug 2021 by
❧This paraliturgical Birkat haMazon by Rabbi Arnold Kiss, “Étkezés utáni ima” (Magyar, 1897) and “Gebet nach dem Speisen” (German, 1907), was first published in his anthology of prayers for Jewish women, Mirjam on p.200-202 of the original Magyar edition and p.354-357 of the subsequent German edition. I’ve set separate English translations side-by-side with the Magyar and German in order to highlight the subtle differences between the two. –Aharon Varady . . .
אֶבֶן הָרֹאשָׁה | Even haRoshah (“The corner stone”), a seliḥah for the Fast of Tevet attributed to Avraham bar Menaḥem (13th c.)
Contributed on: 06 Jan 2020 by
❧“Even haRoshah” (the corner stone) is a seliḥah recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . .
Evening Hymn (Blessed art Thou), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)
Contributed on: 20 May 2023 by
❧“Evening Hymn (Blessed art Thou)” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 94-95. It is not found in the US edition. . . .
An Evening Meditation, by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)
Contributed on: 23 Apr 2023 by
❧This untitled “Evening Meditation” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 108-109. . . .
Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed) [version 1], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)
Contributed on: 15 May 2023 by
❧“Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed)” [version 1] by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 221-222. Another version of the prayer (“Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed) [version 2]“) with some lines missing and others added, appears in the UK edition on pages 95-97. . . .
Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed) [version 2], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)
Contributed on: 20 May 2023 by
❧“Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed)” [version 2] by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853), pp. 95-97. . . .
Evening Prayer (at Bed Time), a rhyming translation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)
Contributed on: 14 Jun 2023 by
❧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. . . .
Evening Prayer for Children, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)
Contributed on: 09 Jun 2020 by
❧“Evening Prayer for Children” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written. . . .
Evening Prayer (I thank Thee), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)
Contributed on: 15 May 2023 by
❧“Evening Prayer (I thank Thee)” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 186-188. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 107-109. . . .
Evening prayer [in illness], by Grace Aguilar (1837)
Contributed on: 10 May 2023 by
❧“Evening Prayer” by Grace Aguilar was posthumously published by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings (1853) and included in the section “Prayers in Illness,” pp. 119-121. The prayer appears between one dated 31 December 1836 and another dated 14 January 1837, along with several other undated prayers. . . .
Exercise for a wife who is married to an irreligious husband, by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1852)
Contributed on: 03 May 2022 by
❧“Exercise for a Wife who is married to an irreligious Husband” appears on pages 131-132 of רֻחָמָה (Ruḥamah): Devotional Exercises for the Use of the Daughters of Israel (1852) edited by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1798–1868). The prayer appears unique to this collection which otherwise contain selections from the teḥinot anthologies in German of Meir Letteris (1800-1871), Max Emanuel Stern (1811-1873), and Yehoshua Heshil Miro. If you know of another collection from which this prayer first appeared, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .
Exercise for the Anniversary of a Parent’s Decease (יאָרצײַט), translated by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1852)
Contributed on: 09 Dec 2021 by
❧“Exercise for the Anniversary of a Parent’s Decease, (YahrZeit.)” appears on page 138-139 of רֻחָמָה (Ruḥamah): Devotional Exercises for the Use of the Daughters of Israel (1852) edited by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1798–1868) from selections made from the teḥinot anthologies in German of Meir Letteris (1800-1871), Max Emanuel Stern (1811-1873), and Yehoshua Heshil Miro. . . .
Exhortacion | Exhortation of Ḥakham Ishak Nieto (1740)
Contributed on: 08 Aug 2020 by
❧An exhortation given by Ḥakham Ishak Nieto published before his translation of the Sliḥot, in Spanish with English translation by Isaac Pinto (1766). . . .
אֶזְכְּרָה מָצוֹק | Ezkerah Matsōk (“I remember the distress”), a seliḥah for the Fast of Tevet attributed to Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils (11th c.)
Contributed on: 05 Jan 2020 by
❧“Ezkera Matsok” (I remember the distress) is a seliḥah in alphabetic acrostic recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . .
עֶזְרַת אֲבוֹתֵינוּ | 我们祖先的助手 | Ezrat Avoteinu (Wǒmen zǔxiān de zhùshǒu) — Chinese translation by Richard Collis (2022)
Contributed on: 27 Jun 2023 by
❧This Chinese translation of the prayer “Ezrat Avotenu,” completing the Geulah blessing following the Shema, is found on pages 18-19 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). . . .
Family Evening Prayer, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)
Contributed on: 17 May 2023 by
❧“Family evening prayer” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 156-159. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 167-169. . . .
Family Morning Prayer, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)
Contributed on: 16 May 2023 by
❧“Family morning prayer” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 153-155. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 164-166. . . .
Father of Nations! Judge Divine! – a hymn on “Our Country” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1856)
Contributed on: 19 Oct 2021 by
❧“Father of nations! Judge divine!” by Penina Moïse, was published in 1856, and appears under the subject of “Our Country” as Hymn 149 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), pp. 144-146. . . .
Fear Not Fear Not Jeshurun (Isaiah 44), a hymn on Divine Providence in Relation to Israel by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)
Contributed on: 20 Oct 2021 by
❧“Fear not, fear not, Jeshurun (Isaiah, Chap. XLIV),” by Penina Moïse, was published in 1842, and appears under the subject of “Divine Providence in Relation to Israel” as Hymn 10 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 15-16. . . .
פעלד־מעסטען | Feldmesten | Measuring of the Graves, a prayer-poem by Morris Rosenfeld (before 1898)
Contributed on: 04 Jun 2023 by
❧This is the poem “פעלד־מעסטען” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 135-136. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “The Measuring of the Graves” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 46-49. A rhyming translation by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank under the title, “Measuring of the Graves” was published in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), pp. 70-71. If you know the date of the earliest publication of this prayer, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .
Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves, a poem by Alter Abelson (1913)
Contributed on: 26 Oct 2021 by
❧“Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves” by Alter Abelson, appears in the section “The Modern Period” in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (Joseph Friedlander and George Alexander Kohut, 1917), pp. 698-699. The poem may have first been published in the 26 September 1913 edition of the Hebrew Standard, p.10. . . .
For All Mothers, a prayer by Rev. Walter Rauschenbusch adapted by Rabbi Morris Lazaron (1918)
Contributed on: 19 Jan 2023 by
❧“For the Mothers,” a variation of the prayer by Rev. Walter Rauschenbusch, is found adapted (without Christian god-language) by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron in his World War Ⅰ era prayerbook, Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors (1918), on page 26. The original version of the prayer was first published in For God and the People: Prayers of the Social Awakening (Walter Rauschenbusch 1910), pp. 85-86. . . .
For the Day’s Round in Camp, a prayer for soldiers by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman adapted by Rabbi Morris Lazaron (1918)
Contributed on: 19 Jan 2023 by
❧“[Prayer] for the Day’s Round in camp,” a variation of a prayer by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman (1860-1929), is found adapted (without Christian god-language) by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron in his World War Ⅰ era prayerbook, Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors (1918), on pages 24-25. The original version of the prayer was first published in The Service Song Book (Young Men’s Christian Associations, 1917), pp. 82-83 in the abridged edition. . . .
For Those At Home, a prayer for the home front during war by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman adapted by Rabbi Morris Lazaron (1918)
Contributed on: 19 Jan 2023 by
❧“[Prayer] for those at home,” a variation of a prayer by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman (1860-1929), is found adapted (without Christian god-language) by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron in his World War Ⅰ era prayerbook, Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors (1918), on page 25. The original version of the prayer was first published in The Service Song Book (Young Men’s Christian Associations 1917), pp. 86 in the abridged edition. . . .
For What I Bless Thee, a prayer-poem by Miriam del Banco (1932)
Contributed on: 01 Jun 2022 by
❧The prayer-poem “For What I Bless Thee” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in her posthumously published anthology, Poetry and Prose (1932), p. 15. . . .
Friday Eve, a poem by Rabbi Alter Abelson (1931)
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❧The poem “Friday Eve” by Rabbi Alter Abelson (1931). . . .
Friday Night, a poem by Miriam del Banco (1917)
Contributed on: 02 Jun 2022 by
❧The poem “Friday Night” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (ed. Friedlander & Kohut 1917), p. 269. . . .
Friday’s Prayer, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
Contributed on: 09 May 2023 by
❧“Friday’s Prayer” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 15-16. . . .
Für Scheni chamischi scheni | For (customary fasts on) the Monday, Thursday, and the following Monday (after Pesaḥ & Sukkot), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)
Contributed on: 18 Dec 2021 by
❧“Für Scheni chamischi scheni” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №55, on pp. 98-100. . . .
Future Happiness, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1853)
Contributed on: 02 Mar 2022 by
❧“Future Happiness” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 35-39. . . .
[Gebet] Am Dienstag, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 31 Jul 2017 by
❧This is the prayer for Tuesday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Tuesday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .
[Gebet] Am Donnerstag, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 31 Jul 2017 by
❧This is the prayer for Thursday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Thursday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .
Gebet am Erinnerungsfeste der Befreiung aus Egypten (Pessach) | Prayer on the Festival of the Liberation from Egypt (Pesaḥ), a teḥinah by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)
Contributed on: 30 Mar 2023 by
❧“Gebet am Erinnerungsfeste der Befreiung aus Egypten. (Pessach.)” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in Die fromme Zionstochter (1841), pp. 42-45. In its 1846 printing, the prayer is found on pp. 43-46. . . .
[Gebet] Am Freitag, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 02 Aug 2017 by
❧This is the prayer for Friday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Friday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .
[Gebet] Am Geburtstage | Prayer on a Birthday, a teḥinah by Pereẓ Beer (1815)
Contributed on: 25 Jan 2022 by
❧“[Gebet] Am Geburtstage (Prayer on a birthday)” was first published in Peter (Peretz) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №34 on p. 115-118 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №34 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on p. 98-100. A variation can also be found in the Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №34 on p. 95-97. . . .
Gebet am Lichtfeste (חנוכה) | Prayer on the Festival of Light (Ḥanukkah), by Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 22 Dec 2022 by
❧This is “Gebet am Lichtfeste” by Fanny Neuda from her collection of teḥinot, Stunden der Andacht (1855/58). In the 1855 edition, it can be found on pages 68-69. In the Judeo-German (vaybertaytsh/mashkit) edition (1864), on pages 88-89. . . .
Gebet am Lichtfeste | Prayer at the Festival of Light (Ḥanukkah), a teḥinah by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)
Contributed on: 19 Dec 2022 by
❧“Gebet am Lichtfeste” by Max Emanuel Stern was first published in his anthology of teḥinot Die Fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen (1841), pp. 60-63. . . .
[Gebet] Am Mittwoch, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 31 Jul 2017 by
❧This is the prayer for Wednesday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Wednesday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .
[Gebet] Am Montag, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 30 Jul 2017 by
❧This is the prayer for Monday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Sunday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .
[Gebet] Am Sabbath, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 12 Jan 2020 by
❧A paraliturgical prayer for Shabbat, offered by Fanny Neuda from her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. . . .
[Gebet] Am Sonntag, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)
Contributed on: 29 Jul 2017 by
❧This is the prayer for Sunday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Sunday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .
Gebet am Uiberschreitungsfeste (חג הפסח) | Prayer on the Passover Festival, a teḥinah by Meïr haLevi Letteris (1846)
Contributed on: 30 Mar 2023 by
❧“Gebet am Uiberschreitungsfeste” was written by Meïr haLevi Letteris and published in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (1846), pp. 35-36. In the Judeo-German edition, it is found on pp. 34-36. . . .
Gebet an der Jahrzeit des Vaters, während man fastet | Prayer on one’s Father’s Yahrẓeit (יאָרצײַט) while fasting, by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)
Contributed on: 11 Dec 2021 by
❧“Gebet an der Jahrzeit des Vaters, während man fastet” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №129, on pp. 244-245. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №130, pp. 251-252. . . .
Gebet an einem Fasttage der Gesammtheit | Prayer on a Public Fast Day (תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר), by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)
Contributed on: 13 Dec 2021 by
❧“Gebet an einem Fasttage der Gesammtheit. תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in his anthology of teḥinot, Die fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen…. In the 1841 printing, it appears on pp. 37-39. In the 1846 edition, it appears on pp. 39-40. . . .
Gebet an einem Fasttage | Prayer on a Public Fast Day (תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר), a teḥinah by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)
Contributed on: 13 Dec 2021 by
❧“Gebet an einem Fasttage. תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר” was written by Meir Letteris and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer…. In the 1846 printing, it appears on pp. 25-26. The translation here by Miriam Wertheimer, “Prayer for a Fast-Day” is as published in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 19-21. . . .
Gebet beim Abscheiden des Teiges (חלה) | Domestic Prayer on Dividing the Dough, a teḥinah by Meïr Letteris (1846)
Contributed on: 16 Dec 2021 by
❧“Gebet beim Abscheiden des Teiges” was written by Meïr haLevi Letteris and published in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (1846), p. 86. In 1852, this teḥinah was translated into English (with a short prayer added for children) by Miriam Wertheimer under the title “Domestic prayer on dividing the dough” in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 51-52. . . .