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the Hierophant
A 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📰 “The Open Siddur: A next generation communal Jewish educational resource,” by Dr. Efraim Feinstein and Dr. Devorah Preiss (Jewish Educational Leadership, Lookstein Center 2010 )
Contributed on: 08 Aug 2024 by ❧
In this article, the authors introduce the concept of sharing in a free culture context as a model for the future of online Jewish educational resources, presenting a new resource-sharing/creating project that they hope will revolutionize the study of the siddur.
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An Introduction to the Open Siddur Project at the National Museum of American Jewish History (8 December 2019)
Contributed on: 30 Nov 2019 by ❧
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. . . .
📰 “Color-Coded Prayerbook Devised by Rabbi” (Martin Lauer, Springfield Republican 1972)
Contributed on: 25 Aug 2010 by ❧
An article on Rabbi Jacob Freedman’s planned Polychrome Historical Haggadah from his local newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. . . .
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Contributed on: 16 Aug 2010 by ❧
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Contributed on: 11 Nov 2009 by ❧
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Contributed on: 16 Feb 2010 by ❧
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Contributed on: 23 Aug 2009 by ❧
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Contributed on: 22 Sep 2009 by ❧
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Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception”
Contributed on: 21 Mar 2010 by ❧
An important licensing update made to a collection of digital fonts maintained by the open-source Hebrew type foundry, the Culmus Project, . . .
📰 “Prayer Unbound” (Hadara Graubart, Tablet Magazine 2009)
Contributed on: 02 Dec 2009 by ❧
We’re honored to have our project the focus of an article in Tablet. . . .
Testing Our Transliteration Engine with help from James Strong’s Biblical Hebrew Dictionary
Contributed on: 28 Apr 2010 by ❧
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List of Compilations
Contributed on: 25 Jan 2020 by ❧
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List of Miscellanies
Contributed on: 25 Jan 2020 by ❧
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List of Prayers
Contributed on: 25 Jan 2020 by ❧
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List of Readings & Sourcetexts
Contributed on: 25 Jan 2020 by ❧
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📰 “מאַכט אײַער אייגענעם סידור!” (Yoel Matveyev, Yiddish Daily Forverts 2019)
Contributed on: 23 Jul 2021 by ❧
An article in the Yiddish Daily Forverts (Forward) on the activities of the Open Siddur Project and its founder, Aharon Varady. . . .
📰 “Prayer a la Carte” (Raphael Ahren, Haaretz 2009)
Contributed on: 03 Jul 2009 by ❧
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. . . .
Public policy, technology, and copyright in Halakha: a sourcesheet
Contributed on: 18 Oct 2011 by ❧
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. . . .
📖 סדר תפלת כל פה (מנהג הספרדים) | Seder Tefilat Kol Peh, a bilingual Hebrew-Ladino prayerbook (1891)
Contributed on: 05 May 2021 by ❧
A bilingual Hebrew-Ladino Sefaradi siddur from the Ottoman Empire. . . .
STOP ACTA & TPP from Undermining Free Speech on the Internet
Contributed on: 10 Feb 2012 by ❧
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. . . .
תנ״ך | TaNaKh: the Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917)
Contributed on: 03 Aug 2010 by ❧
A digitial edition of the JPS 1917 English translation of the TaNaKh. . . .
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Contributed on: 18 Dec 2020 by ❧
A test page for testing new wordpress code. . . .
📰 “Ten Commandments of Jewish Social Networking” (Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles 2010)
Contributed on: 25 Nov 2010 by ❧
An interview with Jonah Lowenfeld of the Jewish Journal on the values of sharing Torah learning as practiced by the Open Siddur Project. . . .
📰 “Taking Prayer Into Their Own Hands” (Steve Lipman, New York Jewish Week 2010)
Contributed on: 13 Jan 2010 by ❧
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. . . .
תורה, נביאים וכתובים: תּרגום ייִדיש פֿון יהואש | The Yiddish Translation of the TaNaKh by Yehoyesh Shloyme Blumgarten
Contributed on: 14 Jan 2012 by ❧
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. . . .
