This is an archive of prayers composed for or relevant to Independence Day, a civic day in the United States celebrated on July 4th.
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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes —⟶ 📅︎ Prayers for Civic Days on Civil Calendars —⟶ United States Civil Calendar —⟶ 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th) 🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14) 📁 🇺🇸 Labor Day (1st Monday of September) :: (Next Category) 🡆 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th)This is an archive of prayers composed for or relevant to Independence Day, a civic day in the United States celebrated on July 4th. Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a transcription and translation of an existing prayer. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Katharine Lee Bates | Morrison David Bial | Judah David Eisenstein (translation) | Benjamin Franklin | Mordecai Kaplan | Rachel Kirsch Holtman (translation) | Berl Lapin (translation) | Emma Lazarus | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Sabato Morais | Gouverneur Morris | Morris Rosenfeld | Samuel Francis Smith | Aharon N. Varady | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) Filter resources by Tag acquisition | על הנסים al hanissim | American Jewry of the United States | civil declarations and charters | civil rights | colonization | conquest | Constitution of the United States | dedications and consecrations | doikayt | eco-conscious | English vernacular prayer | the Enlightenment | Gratitude | Hebrew translation | hegemony | hereness | immigration | Indigenous Peoples | interfaith tolerance | liberty | מודים Modim | Needing Translation (into Hebrew) | נודה לך Nodeh L'kha | Patriotic hymns | Prayers as poems | primordial scream | Problematic prayers | pseudepigrapha | refugees | rhyming translation | sanctuary | settlement | shekhina | shomrah ul'ovdah | statues of liberty | stewardship | subjugation | tolerance and intolerance | tolerance of difference | United States | United States centennial | United States Declaration of Independence | welcome the stranger | World War Ⅰ | Yiddish songs | Yiddish translation | Yiddish vernacular prayer | זמירות zemirot | United States home front during World War Ⅰ | 18th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th) | 🇺🇸 Arbor Day (last Friday of April) | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | 🇺🇸 Constitution & Citizenship Day Readings | Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System | 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14) | 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February) | Midrash Aggadah | Modern Miscellany | 🇺🇸 Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May) | Parashat Vayera | 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) | 🇺🇸 United States of America | 🇺🇸 Veterans Day (11 November) | 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar) Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Looking for something else? For prayers offered for military veterans and armed forces personnel, go here. For prayers composed for social justice, peace, and liberty, go here. For prayers offered for the welfare and well-being of governments and country, please visit here. For public readings selected for Independence Day in the United States, please visit here. PrayersReadings Resources filtered by CATEGORY: “🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th)” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “Prayer for National Holiday” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 71, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . .
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a still frame (01:02:54) of the everyday evening Fourth of July Parade and Picnic in Topeka Downunder from the film adaptation of Harlan Ellison's post-apocalyptic tale: A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975) (This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)
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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
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