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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes // 📅︎ Prayers for Civic Days on Civil Calendars // United States Civil Calendar // Memorial/Decoration Day (last Monday of May) ![]()
![]() Invocation for a Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . . ![]() A prayer for the observance of Memorial Day in the United States. . . . ![]() Invocation for a virtual Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . . ![]() A prayer offered by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff at the Vietnam War Memorial on Memorial Day May 28th 2018. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Stephen Roth on 29 May 2014![]() The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 May 2014. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld on 23 May 2014![]() The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 May 2014. . . . ![]() The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 May 1970. . . . ![]() A prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, composed in 1954. . . . Prayer for the United States during the Cold War, by Julius Klein (Jewish War Veterans of the USA, 1951)![]() This prayer by Brigadier General Julius Klein was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), p. 47. The anthology notes that “Accompanying the prayer of General Klein, National Commander of Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A., is this message: ‘I wish to express the deep-seated conviction that this book of prayers will be warmly received by a world which is very much in need of closer contact with God.’” . . . ![]() A prayer for peace from the end of World War II. . . . “That America’s Heroes Shall Not Have Died in Vain” with a special El Malé Raḥamim prayer for Memorial Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)![]() A service and prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, containing a variation of El Malé Raḥamim, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. . . . Memorial Prayer for Those Lost Through Human Strife, by Rabbi Chaplain (Lieutenant) Alexander David Goode (ca. 1943)![]() A memorial prayer for service members lost in times of war, given by a chaplain who sacrificed his life for others during WWII. . . . ![]() The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 May 1929. . . .
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The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture. If you like what you've found here, please help keep our project alive and online with your financial contribution.
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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