 |
Contributor(s): |
Joshua Giorgio-Rubin
|
Categories: |
Shabbat Siddurim
|
Tags: |
21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
|
|
An adaptation of a short portion of David Einhorn’s work, Olat Tamid, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin. Olah Hadashah—”a new offering”—is, he writes, “an attempt to bring this assurance into the present. Using modern English, gender-neutral language, and including the matriarchs in the Amidah, I hope to make a little sliver of Einhorn’s genius accessible to today’s Jews. In so doing, I hope we can find renewed purpose in our fight for justice, rooted in renewed appreciation of Judaism’s moral imperatives.” . . . |
|
 |
Contributor(s): |
Erica Schultz Yakovetz
|
Categories: |
Shabbat Siddurim
|
Tags: |
English Translation, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Siddurim for Shabbat, Star Trek, Spock, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Leonard Nimoy z"l, Jews of Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy Day (26 March), Needing Decompilation
|
|
The goal of this project was to produce a complete prayerbooklet for the Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv service that was as compact as possible yet user-friendly. This booklet is designed to be printed on 9 double-sided sheets of paper, folded and saddle stapled. It was commissioned for a minyan held annually at the Arisia science fiction convention in Boston, MA, and dedicated in honor of Leonard Nimoy, z”l (1931–2015). Since Arisia takes place in mid-January, we omitted all special insertions for holidays and other times of year. A companion booklet which includes insertions for year-round use is in the works. . . . |
|
 |
Contributor(s): |
Tzemaḥ Yoreh
|
Categories: |
Shabbat Siddurim
|
Tags: |
Jewish Humanism, Ethical Humanism, Post-Enlightenment Judaism, Humanist, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Decompilation, Nusaḥ l'Yahadut Humanistit
|
|
I am a humanist. I am a feminist. I am an environmentalist. I am a libertarian. I am a pacifist. I believe in democracy. I am an agnostic. Traditional Jewish prayer is not any of these “ists” or “ics”; it reflects the worldview of the rabbis 1500 years ago, who may have been quite sagacious but did not share many of my values. The minor and major edits, deletions, and additions to which liberal Jews of this day and age have treated their prayers have inserted some of these sentiments, but for the most part the macro structure of prayers has been preserved, making it difficult for people to engage with the prayer in a straightforward way. The composers of liberal prayer books understand this, and thus we find the phenomenon of alternative or additional English readings and/or very creative translations that bear little relationship to the original prayer. There is another way forward, though. We can compose new prayers and poetry in the original Hebrew that reflect our values and revitalize our canon. This is the way I chose. . . . |
|
 |
Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rabbi Sam Seicol
|
Categories: |
Shabbat Siddurim
|
Tags: |
Boston, Minhag Poland, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Siddurim for Shabbat, Indie Minyanim, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Needing Decompilation
|
|
We are grateful to the Vilna Shul in Boston and their Ḥavurah on the Hill program for preparing “Siddur on the Hill,” (2011) a beautiful siddur for Shabbat Friday night services and sharing it with free-culture compatible, open content licensing. The siddur includes original translations in English from Rabbi Sam Seicol, interpretive writings by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, and illustrations by Georgi Vogel Rosen, as well as contributions from numerous others. Thank you for sharing your siddur, open source! . . . |
|
 |
Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Jakob Petuchowski (translation)
|
Categories: |
Shabbat Siddurim
|
Tags: |
20th century C.E., HUC-JIR, 58th century A.M., Siddurim for Shabbat, Reform Movement, Cincinnati, North American Jewry, Reform Jewry, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Needing Decompilation
|
|
This prayer-leaflet was primarily intended for a group of Hebrew Union College students who met every sabbath afternoon for extra-curricular (noncredit) Torah study with Rabbi Dr. Jakob Petuchowki in the mid-1960s. Their service was conducted entirely in Hebrew and in the traditional nusaḥ with some minor but interesting Liberal innovations. Petuchowki writes, “We have omitted only the various repetitions as well as the prayer for the restoration of the sacrificial service. (But we have retained the place of Zion as the symbol of the messianic hope.) In the ‘Alenu prayer, we have preferred a positive formulation of the “Election of Israel” to the traditional negative one.” . . . |
|
 |
Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Morris Silverman, Robert Gordis, the Rabbinical Assembly of America and United Synagogue of America
|
Categories: |
Maḥzorim for Sukkot & Shemini Atseret, Shabbat Siddurim, Maḥzorim for Pesaḥ & Shavuot
|
Tags: |
20th century C.E., Nusaḥ Masorti, North America, Conservative Judaism, 58th century A.M., North American Jewry, Conservative Jewry, Rabbinical Assembly of America, United Synagogue of America, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation
|
|
The Rabbinical Assembly of America’s popular mid-20th century modern prayerbook for Conservative American Jewry based upon the work of Rabbi Morris Silverman. . . . |
|
 |
Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, Ira Eisenstein, Milton Steinberg and Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation
|
Categories: |
Shabbat Siddurim
|
Tags: |
20th century C.E., North America, 58th century A.M., Siddurim for Shabbat, North American Jewry, Early Reconstructionist, Reconstructionist Jewry, Burnt Books, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation, Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet
|
|
Arranged and translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the Sabbath Prayer Book is the first Reconstructionist prayerbook we know of to have entered the Public Domain. . . . |
|
|