Seder Seliḥot and Tefilot l'Taaniyot • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of digital scans of resources for Seliḥōt services (from the month of Elul through Yom Kippur) and prayers for Fast Days including Tishah b’Av. These scans provide our contributing volunteers a digital source for collaborative transcription of individual seliḥot and qinot, in Hebrew or Aramaic with an accompanying translation. PDFs generated through our workflow are also available for your use. If you do make a transcription however, please share your work back through the project.
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📖 סדר מעריב לתשעה באב | Seder Maariv l’Tishah b’Av, compiled by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

A full prayerbook for the maariv service on Tishah b’Av, compiled by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer from resources shared through the Open Siddur Project. . . .

📖 סְלִיחוֹת לַיּוֹם הָרִאשׁוֹן | Seliḥot for the First Day, translated and annotated by Philip Birnbaum (1952)

Contributor(s):

Paltiel Birnbaum (translation), Hebrew Publishing Company and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A seder seliḥot (a penitential prayer service) for the first day of seliḥot, in the week prior to Rosh ha-Shanah, as prepared and translated by Philip Paltiel Birnbaum and published by Hebrew Publishing Co., in 1952. . . .

📖 תפלות לראש השנה (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Tefilot l’Rosh haShanah, arranged and translated by Rabbi David de Sola Pool (1937)

Contributor(s):

David de Sola Pool

A bilingual Hebrew-English maḥzor for Rosh haShanah in the Sepharadic tradition compiled by David de Sola Pool in 1937. . . .

📖 סדר סליחות מכל השנה | Seder Seliḥot mikol ha-Shanah :: The Order of Seliḥot for the entire year, translated by David Asher, Ph.D. (1866)

Contributor(s):

David Asher (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A comprehensive arrangement of seliḥot (סליחות, penitential prayers) for the entire year, translated into English by the great scholar David Asher. . . .

📖 סדור שפתי צדיקים (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 6: Seder haTefilot laTaaniyot (1838)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Leeser (translation)

The sixth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1838. . . .

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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