This translation of Aḥeinu was written for the hostages taken in Israel on 7 October 2023. It was written to musically match the version composed by Abie Rotenberg. The Hebrew has been reconstructed to include both Aḥeinu (brothers) and Aḥyoteinu (sisters).

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot, Slavery & Captivity

Tags:

2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, captives, Distress, gender inclusive, Geonic prayers

Contributor(s):

Me'ira Rakhel Pitkapaasi (translation)

אַחֵֽינוּ | Aḥeinu (Our siblings)

“Aḥeinu” is the final prayer in a set of supplications recited on Mondays and Thursdays as the Torah scroll is being prepared to be returned to the Aron. The prayer is first found with variations in wording in the surviving manuscripts of the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.).

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot, Slavery & Captivity

Tags:

2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, captives, Distress, Geonic prayers

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

חֵרֶם סְתָם | Ḥerem Stam (General Excommunication Threat) for Waylaid Goods, from HUC Ms. 453 (1730)

An announcement of ḥerem stam (a general threat of excommunication) on the occurrence of stolen or waylaid goods, found in this form in a 1730 Seder Hazkarot Neshamot copied by Shabetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach (HUC Ms. 453, 21r). If a community member was stolen from, they could go to the sexton (shammash), who would declare the theft and proclaim a general threat of excommunication on all who knew anything about the occurrence and failed to speak on the matter.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags:

18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Justice, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown

Prayer for the Congregation and the Government, by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1895)

A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s):

Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Yisrael and the Congregation, by Rabbi Joseph Miller (1927)

A prayer on behalf of one’s congregation and the worldwide community of Israelites.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., diaspora, English vernacular prayer, Immigration Act of 1924, National Origins Act, הקהל the ḳahal

Contributor(s):

Joseph Miller and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפילה לשלום התפוצה היהודית | A Prayer for the Welfare of Diaspora Jewry, by Rabbi Amitai Fraiman (2018)

We have a prayer for the State of Israel, its army, government etc. but we do not have a non-judgmental, non-aliyah focused prayer for the welfare of Diaspora Jewry. This prayer offers a remedy for this absence.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags:

2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., in the merit of Aharon haKohen, Prayers for the Diaspora from Israel, שזור Shazur, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Amitai Fraiman

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "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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