![the Open Siddur Project [logo]](https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2016.svg){kind=logo}
a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources — for those crafting their own prayerbooks and sharing the content of their practice | ||
⤷ You are here: Contributors (A→Z) 🪜
Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael  Tsva ha-Haganah l'YisraelThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF; Hebrew: צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael, lit. 'The Army of Defense for Israel'), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tsahal (צה״ל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and the Israeli Navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security apparatus, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel. The IDF is headed by the Chief of the General Staff, who is subordinate to the Israeli Defense Minister. Filter resources by Category Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim | Military Personnel & Veterans | Mourning | Travel | War | 🇮🇱 Yom haZikaron | Yom Kippur Filter resources by Tag 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war | air travel | אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim | fasting | צה״ל IDF | עינוי Innui (self-affliction) | כוונות kavvanot | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | military | Nusaḥ TsaHaL | ocean | פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh | prayers on ships | תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh | יזכור yizkor | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Name Filtered by category: “War” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? תְּפִלָּה לִפְנֵי יְצִיאָה לַקְרָב | Prayer Before Setting Off to Battle, by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (IDF, 1963)Contributed on: 26 Mar 2022 by Abe Katz (translation) | Shlomo Goren | Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧ Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s “Tefilah Lifnei Yetsiah laQrav,” a prayer for IDF soldiers before embarking on a combat mission was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal (pp. 72-73 in the 1963 printing). . . . | ||
| Sign up for a summary of new resources shared by contributors each week
  |
