
the Open Siddur Project ✍︎ פְּרוֹיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
an open-source, community contributed archive for those sharing prayers and crafting their own prayerbooks
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![]() the HierophantA hierophant is a person who invites participants in a sacred exercise into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The title, hierophant, originated in Ancient Greece and combines the words φαίνω (phainein, "to show") and τα ειρα (ta hiera, "the holy"); hierophants served as interpreters of sacred mysteries and arcane principles. For the Open Siddur Project, the Hierophant welcomes new contributors and explains our mission: ensuring creatively inspired work intended for communal use is shared freely for creative reuse and redistribution. http://gravatar.com/opensiddur |
Contributed on: 30 Nov 2019 by the Hierophant | ❧
An event featuring a presentation by founding director Aharon Varady introducing the Open Siddur Project to attendees of the first annual Jewish New Media Festival. . . .
Contributed on: 16 Aug 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 11 Nov 2009 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 16 Feb 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 23 Aug 2009 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 22 Sep 2009 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 21 Mar 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
An important licensing update made to a collection of digital fonts maintained by the open-source Hebrew type foundry, the Culmus Project, . . .
Contributed on: 25 Aug 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
An article on Rabbi Jacob Freedman’s planned Polychrome Historical Haggadah from his local newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. . . .
Contributed on: 05 Jun 2012 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 02 Dec 2009 by the Hierophant | ❧
We’re honored to have our project the focus of an article in Tablet. . . .
Contributed on: 28 Apr 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 25 Jan 2020 by the Hierophant | ❧
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Contributed on: 23 Jul 2021 by the Hierophant | ❧
An article in the Yiddish Daily Forverts (Forward) on the activities of the Open Siddur Project and its founder, Aharon Varady. . . .
Contributed on: 03 Jul 2009 by the Hierophant | ❧
From the summer of 2009, the first article ever written about our project, the Open Siddur, in the pages of Ha’aretz. By Raphael Ahren. . . .
Contributed on: 18 Oct 2011 by the Hierophant | ❧
Last Sukkot 5771 (2011), Efraim Feinstein shared the sourcesheet for his late night shiur (lesson) on copyright in Rabbinic Halakhah (Jewish law). Efraim’s research adds a great deal of important perspective to our work here on the Open Siddur Project. It provides relevant historical context for our work advocating the adoption of free culture principles and free-culture licenses to facilitate sharing (tachlis) within the Jewish world. . . .
Contributed on: 05 May 2021 by the Hierophant | ❧
A bilingual Hebrew-Ladino Sefaradi siddur from the Ottoman Empire. . . .
Contributed on: 10 Feb 2012 by the Hierophant | ❧
Keep the Internet as open as Avraham and Sarah’s tent. Help us oppose ACTA & TPP: — free trade legislation with specific language that will undermine free speech on the Internet. . . .
Contributed on: 03 Aug 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
A digitial edition of the JPS 1917 English translation of the TaNaKh. . . .
Contributed on: 18 Dec 2020 by the Hierophant | ❧
A test page for testing new wordpress code. . . .
Contributed on: 25 Nov 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
An interview with Jonah Lowenfeld of the Jewish Journal on the values of sharing Torah learning as practiced by the Open Siddur Project. . . .
Contributed on: 13 Jan 2010 by the Hierophant | ❧
In January 2010, the Jewish Week published a piece about the Open Siddur Project by Steve Lipman, entitled, “Taking Prayer Into Their Own Hands.” The article is no longer available online at the Jewish Week website or in any online cache. We have archived it here for posterity. . . .
Contributed on: 14 Jan 2012 by Yehoyesh Shloyme Blumgarten (translation) | The Yehoyesh Project (transcription) | the Hierophant | ❧
The Open Siddur Project is pleased to distribute a masterful Yiddish translation of the Tanakh by “Yehoyesh” (Yehoash) Shloyme Blumgarten (1870-1927) as published in Torah, Neviʼim, u-Khetuvim (New York: Yehoʼash Farlag Gezelshaft, 1941) that now resides in the Public Domain. . . .
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Creative Commons Zero (CC0), a Public Domain dedication (English) |