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Mordecai Kaplan
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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Abraham Joshua Heschel | ageing | American Jewry of the United States | Amits Koaḥ | anti-fascist | anti-racist | anti-war | apotropaic prayers of protection | ayin hara | Barkhi Nafshi | birthday prayers | Burnt Books | capitalism | civic prayers | civil declarations and charters | Classical Antiquity | communal shame | corruption | Decalogue | declarations | Decoration Day | deuterocanonical works | difference disagreement and deviance | Early Reconstructionist | Ecclesiasticus | ecumenical prayers | אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim | אמת ואמונה Emet v'Emunah | English vernacular prayer | false piety | Hapoel Hatsair | חסידות Ḥasidut | חלול ה׳ Ḥillul Hashem | hymns of creation | improper use of the crown | inclusion and exclusion | interdependence | Jews of Alexandria | labor | labor exploitation | Labor Zionism | lashon hara | loneliness | lonely man of faith | Maḥzor supplements | מי שברך mi sheberakh | מוסר mussar | Nature | Needing Decompilation | Needing Transcription | neoḥasidic idealization | North America | North American Jewry | Openers | planting trees | pluralism | Prayers adapted from teachings | Prayers as poems | Prayers for Praying | Problematic prayers | prophetic revelation | Psalms 104 | Psalms 4 | Psalms 5 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | reconstructing Judaism | Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet | Reconstructionist Jewry | religious hypocrisy | סליחות səliḥot | Siddurim for Shabbat | social anxiety | תשובה teshuvah | טבע Teva | the invisible hand | tolerance and intolerance | Transcendentalism | United States | United States Declaration of Independence | work | work as worship | world government | worship as work | יצר הרע yetser hara | Yom Ha'Avodah | 2nd century B.C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 36th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
Leo Baeck | Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira | Members of the Faculty of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School | Ira Eisenstein | Aaron David Gordon | Abraham Joshua Heschel | Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation | Eugene Kohn | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | the Mesorah (TaNaKh) | Abraham Regelson (translation) | Mel Scult | Milton Steinberg | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | John Paul Williams
Needed Prophets for Our Day, a prayer-poem by Mordecai Kaplan (1942) adapted from “The Divinity School Address” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1838)
Contributed by: Mordecai Kaplan, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, first penned in his diary for 23 August 1942, was first published in The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, by Mel Scult (1990). Although the prayer was not included in Kaplan’s Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945), it was added to the loose-leaf prayerbook he kept at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism synagogue. . . .
