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This is a collection of seder teḥinot -- arrangements of vernacular supplicatory and paraliturgical prayers intended for private devotional use outside and supplementary to prayers offered publicly in the synagogue.

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📖 ברכה ותהלה | Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923)

ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) is a collection of fifty teḥinot and devotional readings in vernacular English. The work was compiled by a committee chaired by Rabbi Solomon Freehof, along with Rabbi Israel Bettan, Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, and Rabbi Abram Simon.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot

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Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris Samuel Lazaron, Abram Simon and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

📖 Prayers of the Jewish Advance, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (1924)

This is a collection of forty prayers and twelve short essays/addresses in English by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924). The work contains two opening prayers and one closing prayer (i.e., the “Prayers of the Jewish Advance”), prayers for ten days on the festival calendar including the Sabbath, a full confirmation service with seven prayers, and twenty miscellaneous prayers. The full program and notes to the Confirmation Service append the work.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Pulpit & Ceremonial collections of prayers

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Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1925)

Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science (1925) presents the philosophy and practice of Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein’s “Jewish Science movement” (an uncoordinated response to the then popular Christian Science movement), which he also referred to as “Applied Judaism.” Rabbi Lichtenstein emphasized the efficacy of visualization in the practice of prayer, and lacking that, the use of affirmations.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Science movement

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Morris Lichtenstein and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 The Helpful Manual, by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (Centre of Jewish Science 1927)

The Helpful Manual is a prayerbook containing supplications and affirmations expressing the teachings of the then nascent Jewish Science movement, prepared by one of the movement’s founders, Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy in 1927, on behalf of the Centre of Jewish Science. The Jewish Science movement was at the time intended to counter the popularity of the Christian Science movement among Jews in the United States.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Science movement

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Clifton Harby Levy and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 (רפורמי) Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue, by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (1929)

Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue, compiled by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques in 1929, contains services for Shabbat, Rosh haShanah (with readings), and a selection of teḥinot (“special prayers for private worship) and hymns (“anthems”).

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Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah, Shabbat Siddurim, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bernhard Baron St. George's Jewish Settlement, British Jewry, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain

Contributor(s):

Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Techinah-Book, by Rabbi Simon Glazer (1930)

A collection of teḥinot, in English, edited by Rabbi Simon Glazer.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Needing Decompilation, תחינות teḥinot

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Simon Glazer and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951)

The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. In the largest section, “Meditations,” the collection re-published 36 of the prayers from CCAR’s ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (1923), omitting 15. To these, three new prayers were added, along with some new sections: “Family Worship,” “Personal Prayers for Special Occassions,” “Prayers for Night and Morning,” and “Prayers in Time of Sickness and Death.”

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Memorial, Funeral, and Cemetery Prayer Guides, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

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Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 רָחֵל | Rachel, a bilingual Yiddish-English anthology of teḥinot compiled and translated by Rabbi Solomon Rubinstein (1952)

A bilingual Yiddish-English anthology of teḥinot containing 21 prayers compiled and translated by Rabbi Solomon Rubinstein soon after

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Solomon Rubinstein

📖 An Offering of Prayer: Prayers and Meditations — Private and Public, compiled by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

A collection of public, pulpit prayers, ceremonial, and other prayers to supplement the Siddur.

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Interfaith & Ecumenical collections of prayers, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Pulpit & Ceremonial collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., New Jersey

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Morrison David Bial

📖 סידור ולא נבוש | Jewish Prayer as Shame Resilience Practice: Siddur v’Lo Nevosh for Shaḥarit by Rabbi Shoshana Friedman

A prayerbook of paraliturgical reflections on the weekday morning prayers composed for a shame resilience practice.

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Morning siddurim, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish Renewal, shame resilience

Contributor(s):

Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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