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Mark Sameth  Mark SamethRabbi Mark Sameth is the retired founding rabbi of Pleasantville Community Synagogue in Westchester County, New York. Ordained from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1998, a landmark paper purporting to reveal the long-long lost pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton “Who is He? He is She: The Secret Four Letter Name of God” appeared in the CCAR Journal, Summer 2008. Rabbi Sameth is the author of The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God (Wipf and Stock, 2020) and Shiphrah and Puah: A Grammatical Solution (CCAR Journal, Spring 2025). A teacher of Jewish meditation, his essays on Jewish diet have appeared in Olitzky and Judson’s The Rituals and Practices of a Jewish Life (Jewish Lights, 2002) and Jewish Ritual: A Brief Introduction for Christians (Jewish Lights, 2004). Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Tag English vernacular prayer | חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh | תשובה teshuvah | וידוים viduyim | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? Contributed by: Mark Sameth “A Prayer for Difficult People (in two parts)” was first offered on Yom Kippur 5772 (2011) at Pleasantville Community Synagogue (Pleasantville, NY), and has since appeared in congregational newsletters, blogs, and on the website “Restless Pilgrim.” The prayer (in two parts) begins with a focus on the difficult people in our lives, then shifts and becomes a prayer that we ourselves not be difficult people in the lives of others. | ||
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