Netanel Linzer • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/profile/netanel-linzer/ a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:39:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2015-5509b4bdv1_site_icon-250x250.png Netanel Linzer • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/profile/netanel-linzer/ 32 32 Yizkor for Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day, by Netanel Linzer https://opensiddur.org/prayers/civic-calendar/us-civil-calendar/indigenous-peoples-day/yizkor-for-indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-by-netanel-linzer/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/civic-calendar/us-civil-calendar/indigenous-peoples-day/yizkor-for-indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-by-netanel-linzer/#respond Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:39:31 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=69464 This tefillah is a Yizkor honoring the Taíno Nation and all other Indigenous Americans who were wiped out by Christopher Columbus. It is meant to be said on Indigenous People’s day/Columbus Day. It talks about the suffering the people of America were subjected too and is a prayer asking H-shem to both care for them in death and to tell the whole world what happened.
Contribute a translation Source (English)
May Hashem remember the souls of the innocent
who were killed, murdered, slaughtered, and enslaved,
who had to watch their children eaten by animals,
and (who) as a people are no longer with us.
I beg you Hashem
don’t let their suffering be their final moments.
Let them reside in Heaven
and come back in the time of the Mashiaḥ.[1] At the Resurrection of the Dead. 
Do not let the murderers and enslavers be celebrated,
and let the whole world know the events that occurred.
Now let us respond: Amen.

“Yizkor for Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day” was written by Netanel Linzer “around 2016” and was originally published on ritualwell.org.

 

Notes

Notes
1 At the Resurrection of the Dead.
]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/civic-calendar/us-civil-calendar/indigenous-peoples-day/yizkor-for-indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-by-netanel-linzer/feed/ 0