
Dalia Marx
Rabbi Dalia Marx (PhD) is the Aaron Pankin professor of liturgy and Midrash at the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College-JIR, and teaches in various academic institutions in Israel and Europe. Marx, tenth generation in Jerusalem, earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University and her rabbinic ordination at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem and Cincinnati. She is involved in various research projects and is active in promoting liberal Judaism in Israel. Marx writes for academic and popular journals and publications. She is the author of בזמן: מסעות בלוח השנה היהודי ישראלי (Bazman 2018), When I Sleep and when I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn (Yediot Sfarim 2010, in Hebrew), A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud (Mohr Siebeck, 2013, in English) and the co-editor of a few books. She was the chief editor of T'fillat HaAdam: Israeli Reform Siddur (2020). Marx lives in Jerusalem with her husband Rabbi Roly Zylbersztein (PhD) and their three children.
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Alex Cicelsky (translation) | Inbar Bluzer Shalem | David W. Nelson (translation) | Moshe Silberschein (translation) | Dan Levene | Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Amram ben Rav Sheshna
מימיני מיכאל | “Mikhael is on my right,” an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Bedtime Shema from the Maḥzor Vitry (ca. 11th c.)
Contributed by Dan Levene | Dalia Marx | Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧
An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .