12 Marḥeshvan • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers composed for the Yahrzeit of Yitsḥaq Rabin, the fifth prime minister of Israel, whose assassination took place at 21:30 on 4 November 1995 (12 Marḥeshvan 5756) at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assassin, a Jewish Israeli ultranationalist, radically opposed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s peace initiative, particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.
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תַּֽמּוּ חֲלוֹמוֹתֵֽינוּ | Tamu Ḥalomotenu, a seliḥah for Yitsḥaq Rabin by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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Tsom Gedalyah, 12 Marḥeshvan

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prime minister, assassination, Prayers for leaders, Yitsḥaq Rabin, סליחות seliḥot, ישראל Yisrael, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, elegies, קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., Assassination of Yitsḥaq Rabin, 58th century A.M., Memorial prayers

Jews around the world fast on the day after Rosh haShanah to commemorate the murder of Gedalyahu son of Aḥiqam, the officer appointed over Judah who sought to make peace and rebuild before being murdered by a religious extremist and officially bringing an end to the first commonwealth era. The tragedy of Gedalyahu is not just that he was assassinated, but that he was assassinated by a Jew who was using religion (specifically his claim to the line of David) as an excuse. This narrative bears striking similarities to the murder of Prime Minister Yitzḥaq Rabin on 12 Marḥeshvan 5756. On account of this, some Jews have taken it upon themselves to memorialize Rabin on Tzom Gedalyahu as well. This piyyut could be added to the seliḥot for Tzom Gedalyahu, or part of a new seliḥot service for 12 Marḥeshvan. . . .

Ḳinah (lamentation) for Yitsḥaq Rabin, by Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen (2004)

Contributor(s):

Aryeh Cohen

Categories:

12 Marḥeshvan

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Yitsḥaq Rabin, ישראל Yisrael, elegies, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Assassination of Yitsḥaq Rabin, קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prime minister, assassination, Prayers for leaders

A ḳinah (lamentation) for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzḥak Rabin, assassinated on 4 November 1995, the yahrzeit of which is י״א בְּמַרחֶשְׁוָן ‎(11 Marḥeshvan). . . .

אֵל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים | El Malé Raḥamim for Victims of the Shoah (the Netherlands, ca. late 1940s)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Translator(s) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Yom Kippur, Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 12 Marḥeshvan, Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

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Dutch Jewry, השואה the Shoah, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, 58th century A.M., Netherlandish Jewry, the Holocaust, נעילה‎ neilah, 20th century C.E.

This is an undated El Malé Raḥamim prayer for the victims of the Shoah translated into Dutch for a Yom Kippur ne’ilah service, likely sometime soon after the Holocaust had ended. To this I have added an English translation for those not fluent in Dutch or Hebrew. We are grateful to Shufra Judaica (Ellie Fisher and David Selis) for sharing a digital copy of this prayer. . . .