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This is an archive of prayers composed for or relevant to the immediate congregation and its wider community.

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תהלים כ״ו | Psalms 26, by David translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s translation of Psalms 26 was first published in Psalms in a Translation for Praying (Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Philadelphia: 2014), p. 41.

Categories:

Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Congregation & Community

Tags:

devotional interpretation, הקפות haḳafot, interpretive translation, Psalms 26

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and David ben Yishai (traditional attribution)

בְּרָכָה לְכׇּל־הַקָּהָל הַקָּדוֹשׁ הַזֶּה | Mi sheBerakh for this Holy Congregation

The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of one’s own congregation.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags:

Aramaic, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s):

David Levi (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

בְּרָכָה לְכׇּל־הַקְּהִלּוֹת | Mi sheBerakh for All the Holy Congregations

The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of Jewish congregations worldwide.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags:

Aramaic, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s):

David Levi (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

ברכה לקהל | Blessing of the Congregation, translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool

A “mi sheberakh” prayer on behalf of the persons attending the prayer and/or Torah reading service.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags:

מי שברך mi sheberakh, הקהל the ḳahal

Contributor(s):

David de Sola Pool and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)

אַחֵֽינוּ וְאַחֱיוֹתֵנוּ | Aḥeinu v’Aḥeiyoteinu, an inclusive adaptation of the prayer for captives after 7 October 2023 by Me’ira Rakhel Pitkapaasi

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

Thanksgiving to the Almighty for the Centenary of the Gate of Mercy Synagogue, Bombay — by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (13 May 1896)

On 13 May 18967, Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar offered this prayer in Hebrew with translations in Marathi and English, on behalf of the congregation of the Gates of Prayer Synagogue (Bombay/Mumbai), for the 100th anniversary of the synagogue’s founding in 1796.

Categories:

Congregation & Community

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bene Israel, Jews of India, Marathi translation, Needing Proofreading, Queen Victoria, Synagogues

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (translation)

רִבּוֹנוֹ שֶׁל עוֹלָם | Untitled Prayer, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (ca. 1952)

This untitled prayer written by Isaac Bashevis Singer on the back of a receipt (dated 1 March 1952) was discovered by David Stromberg in 2014 in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and published online by Tablet (1, 2) with permission of the Susan Schulman Literary Agency.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אהבת ישראל loving Yisrael, Needing Proofreading, paraliturgical ribon haOlamim, Three Weeks of Mourning

Contributor(s):

David Stromberg (translation), Isaac Bashevis Singer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Intention for community garlic planting at the end of a harvest season, by Jess Berlin

Garlic is typically the last crop planted on a farm, it is planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. So you are leaving a legacy for next years farmers (which might be you). We begin by separating the garlic bulbs from the cloves, similar to separating people from their community. Then, once the individual (garlic cloves) are planted, they form new communities in the ground. Similar to the process that we are all going through. Leaving our community here on the farm and going out into the world to create new communities.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Separation, Planting

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Adamah Farm, ADVA Reunion, Garlic, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, Teva Learning Center, Until Next Time

Contributor(s):

Daniel Landau (translation) and Jessica Berlin

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

ברכה לעם עולם | Blessing for the Eternal People, by Yaacov Maoz (5781/2020)

A global and inclusive prayer for the well-being of the diverse congregation of the people of Yisrael.

Categories:

Congregation & Community

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אחדות aḥdut (togetherness), pluralism, Progressive Zionism, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Yaacov Maoz

תְּפִלָּה עַל הָעַרְבוּת בְּעַד כׇּל יוֹשְׁבֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | Prayer on Erev Shabbat for the Sake of All Residents of Israel, by Rebbitsen Hadassah Froman & Rabbah Tamar Elad-Appelbaum (2023)

A prayer for peace amidst civil disagreement, difference, and strife before the lighting of Shabbat candles on Erev Shabbat.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Erev Shabbat, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

Tags:

2023 Israeli judicial reform protests, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., candle lighting, disagreement, kindling, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Needing Vocalization, pluralism, tolerance of difference

Contributor(s):

Noah Efron (translation), Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Hadassah Froman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

🆕 אַחֵינוּ הַנְּתוּנִים בְּצָרָה וּבְשִׁבְיָה | Our brethren in distress and bondage, a plea for the safety of Am Yisrael at the conclusion of prayer and ceremonies by Seth (Avi) Kadish

A prayer is for all members of עם ישראל who are in dangerous or oppressive conditions: Israeli soldiers including those who are in combat at this moment, captives and wounded soldiers and civilians alike, “all those threatened by malice in our land and in exile,” and “all those in need of Your comfort” — especially the families of dead or wounded soldiers and civilians in Israel and in exile.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), צה״ל IDF

Contributor(s):

Seth (Avi) Kadish

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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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