Support this work: | The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture. If you like what you've found here, please help keep our project alive and online with your financial contribution.ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established."–Psalms 90:17 |
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983), was a rabbi, essayist and Jewish educator and the co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.
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- יום העבודה | Salvation through Avodah, a prayer for the Sabbath before Labor Day, adapted from the writings of A.D. Gordon by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: May Day, Morning Torah Reading, Labor Day Tags: 20th century C.E., Teva, labor, 57th century A.M., work, Nature, Labor Zionism, Hapoel Hatsair, Yom Ha'Avodah, work as worship, worship as work
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- בן סירא מב:כא-מג:לא | ben Sira 42:21-43:31, a hymn of creation translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan
Categories: Historical, Rosh Ḥodesh, Kiddush Levana, Shaḥarit Tags: hymns of creation, Petiḥot, 2nd century B.C.E., 35th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria
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- Courage to Withstand the Ridicule of the Worldly, a prayer by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Work Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Psalms 4, English vernacular prayer, Amits Koaḥ, lonely man of faith, social anxiety, yetser hara, loneliness, ayin hara, lashon hara, apotropaic prayers of protection
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- That Religion Be Not a Cloak for Hypocrisy, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Tisha b'Av, Roleplaying Tags: 20th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Psalms 5, English vernacular prayer, false piety, religious hypocrisy, labor exploitation, Ḥillul Hashem, corruption, improper use of the crown, communal shame, difference disagreement and deviance, tolerance and intolerance, inclusion and exclusion
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- ספר תפילות לשבת | Sabbath Prayer Book, by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (1945)
Categories: Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers, Kabbalat Shabbat, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation, Shabbat Siddur, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat, Musaf, Minḥah Tags: 20th century C.E., North America, 57th century A.M., Siddurim for Shabbat, North American Jewry, Early Reconstructionist, Reconstructionist Jewry, Burnt Books, Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet
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