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David de Sola Pool
David de Sola Pool (דוד די סולה פול; 1885–1970) was the leading 20th-century Sephardic rabbi in the United States. A scholar, author, and civic leader, he was a world leader of Judaism. Born in London, England, de Sola Pool was descended from an old and renowned family of rabbis and scholars, de Sola, which traces its origins to medieval Spain. His great grandparents were Rabbi (R.) David Aaron de Sola and Rebecca Meldola, his great-great grandfather was Haham Raphael Meldola, a prominent English Rabbi. He was also related to R. Abraham de Sola, R. Henry Pereira Mendes and Dr. Frederick de Sola Mendes. He studied at the University of London. He held a doctorate in ancient languages, summa cum laude, from the University of Heidelberg. In 1907, de Sola Pool was invited to become the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel — often called the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue — located in New York City, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He served as its rabbi for 63 years.
After the Aliyot | Aleinu | Arvit l'Shabbat | Morning Baqashot | Bedtime Shema | Congregation & Community | Maḥzorim for Pesaḥ & Shavuot | Maḥzorim for Sukkot & Shemini Atseret | Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim | Military Personnel & Veterans | Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies | Pulpit & Ceremonial collections of prayers | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah | Seder Seliḥot and Tefilot l'Taaniyot | Seder for Thanksgiving Day (United States) | Musaf l'Shabbat | 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) | 🇺🇸 United States of America | War | Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim | Yom Kippur
84th Congress | ABCB rhyming scheme | acrostic | Acrostic translation | אדון הסליחות Adon haSeliḥot | אדון עולם Adon Olam | על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh | עלינו Aleinu | Alphabetic Acrostic | American Jewry of the United States | censored prayers under Christendom | Cold War (1947–1953) | cosmological | doctrinal | אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah | English vernacular prayer | free translation | הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah | חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers) | Jewish identity | מלכויות malkhuyot | מי שברך mi sheberakh | military | Needing Decompilation | Needing Transcription | Nusaḥ Sefaradi | paraliturgical elohai neshamah | Openers | פיוטים piyyutim | פזמונים pizmonim | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | rhyming translation | סליחות səliḥot | U.S. Senate | sexual conduct | Spanish-Portuguese | standing posture | תחינות teḥinot | testament to divine reality | הקהל the ḳahal | United States | United States in the Korean War | עדות witnessing | World War Ⅱ | יצר הרע yetser hara | יגדל yigdal | זמירות zemirot | 3rd century C.E. | 11th century C.E. | 15th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 40th century A.M. | 49th century A.M. | 53rd century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution) | Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan | Solomon B. Freehof | Eugene Kohn | Aryeh Lev | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | the National Jewish Welfare Board | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Prayer [for Military Personnel] in Temptation (National Jewish Welfare Board 1941)
Contributed on: 19 Apr 2022 by David de Sola Pool | Eugene Kohn | Solomon B. Freehof | the National Jewish Welfare Board | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
This “Prayer in Temptation” can be found in the Abridged Prayer Book for the Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States (Jewish Welfare Board 1941), p. 120. As far as we know, this prayer is unique to this prayerbook, although the text recalls the waking prayer “Elohai Neshama.” . . .
