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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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Lord! What is Man That Thou Should’st Take (Psalms 144), a hymn on “Religious Education of Israel’s Youth” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Lord! what is man, that thou should’st take (Psalm CXLIV),” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Religious Education of Israel’s Youth” as Hymn 19 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 23. . . .

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Congregation & Community

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, paraliturgical Psalms 144, South Carolina

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

When Faith Too Young for a Sublimer Creed, a hymn by Penina Moïse for the consecration of her synagogue (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

This hymn for the 1842/5601 consecration of Congregation Beth Elohim by Penina Moïse, and was published that year as Hymn 1 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 5-6. . . .

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Congregation & Community

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer at the Consecration of the Central Synagogue by chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (7 April 1870)

The prayer at the consecration of the Central Synagogue (in London) offered by the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, Nathan Marcus Adler, on 7 April 1870. The prayer was reprinted in “A Sermon By the Chief Rabbi,” The Israelite, vol. 117 part 14 (29 April 1870), page 9. . . .

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Congregation & Community, Homes & Community Centers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, dedications and consecrations, English vernacular prayer, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Nathan Marcus Adler, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UHC of the UK & the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Centennial of Ḳ.Ḳ. Miḳveh Israel (Philadelphia), by Rabbi Sabato Morais (30 March 1883)

This prayer appears in conclusion to “A Summary of the Centenary History of the Mikve Israel Congregation, by Rev. S. Morais” published in the The Jewish Record on 30 March 1883, a clipping of which is found on page 200in the Sobato Morais Scrapbook (a/k/a, the Morais Ledger). . . .

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Congregation & Community

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Ḳ.Ḳ. Miḳveh Israel (Philadelphia), Synagogues

Contributor(s):

Sabato Morais and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Tabernacle, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1891)

“The Tabernacle” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in The Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star vol. 56, p. 688. . . .

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Congregation & Community

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, המשכן the Mishkan, Trees

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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. . . .

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

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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 Communal Prayer, by the Jewish Religious Union of London (1902)

This prayer for communal prayer first appears in A Selection of Prayers, Psalms, and Other Scriptural Passages, and Hymns for Use at the Services of the Jewish Religious Union (1902), where it is №5 on page 6. . . .

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Congregation & Community

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, Prayers for Praying

Contributor(s):

Claude Montefiore, Morris David Joseph, Lilian Helen Montagu, the Jewish Religious Union of London and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer on Behalf of the Whole House of Israel, by the Jewish Religious Union of London (1902)

This prayer for the wellbeing of the Jewish people first appears in A Selection of Prayers, Psalms, and Other Scriptural Passages, and Hymns for Use at the Services of the Jewish Religious Union (1902), where it is №6 on page 6. (In the revised 1903 edition of the prayerbook, it is №19 on page 19.) . . .

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Congregation & Community

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Claude Montefiore, Morris David Joseph, Lilian Helen Montagu, the Jewish Religious Union of London and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Be it ours to shed sunshine — a selection from “A Free Man’s Religious Worship” by Bertrand Russell (1910)

The well known philosopher Bertrand Russell had little use for organized religion and in general was quite skeptical in his religious beliefs. I am not a regular reader of Russell but apparently Mordecai Kaplan read him from time to time. In the early 1940s he came across a short essay which Russell wrote many years before entitled “A Free Man’s Religious Worship” (1910). Kaplan mentions the essay a number of times in the diary and I am struck by the fact that Kaplan quotes and focuses on what he considers to be some positive statements in this essay. As a consequence I have been reading Russell and here offer some inspiring statements from this essay. I have taken the liberty of selecting my own statements from this essay. Russell is referring here to all our fellow human beings and our obligations to all others. It is obvious that in true reconstructionist fashion we could use these statements as a prayer. To pray from Russell would be an inspiration from Kaplan. . . .

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Congregation & Community, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Reconstructionist, English vernacular prayer, Ethical Humanism, Humanist, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s):

Mel Scult and Bertrand Russell

[Prayer on] the Decline of Religious Observance, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (1924)

Titled, “The Decline of Religious Observance,” this prayer from Rabbi Abraham Cronbach open’s his collection of prayer, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on pages 2 through 5. . . .

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Congregation & Community

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, irreligiosity, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer for] the Ninth of Aḇ, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (1924)

This prayer for “The Ninth of Ab” by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach is found in his, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on pages 60-65. . . .

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Congregation & Community, Tishah b'Av, Pogroms & Genocide, Terror

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prophetic revelation

Contributor(s):

Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer for Protection from Oppression and Persecution (CCAR 1924)

This is an untitled prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924), pp. 68-69, as a reading between the Shema and the Amidah. As a prayer for protection it fits as a paraliturgical haskivenu, and in New York City, it makes sense in the context of the terrifying news of mass-murder, rape, and genocide being reported from Ukraine at the time. (Find Nokhem Shtif’s “פּאָגראָמען אין אוקראַיִנע : די צײַט פֿון דער פֿרײַװיליקער אַרמײ (The Pogroms in Ukraine: the Period of the Volunteer Army)” (1923) offered in Yiddish and in English translation at In Geveb.) The Ukrainian context of this prayer is further underscored in that the prayer is not found in the 1918 revised Union Prayer Book, but in the later 1924 edition. It may have been unique to Congregation Emanu-El in New York City, who compiled this version of the Union Prayer Book for radio listeners joining their service. . . .

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Congregation & Community, Arvit l'Shabbat, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionist, English vernacular prayer, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, paraliturgical hashkivenu, Pogroms in Ukraine 1918-1924, prayers following pogroms, protection

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

A Prayer at the Installation of Congregation Officers for the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak (ca. 1924)

“Installation of Congregation Officers” was written by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak sometime before 1924 when the congregation celebrated the breaking of ground in the construction of the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center. The prayer was first published in Rabbi Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 115-116. . . .

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Congregation & Community

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., community organizing, Conservative Jewry

Contributor(s):

Jacob Bosniak 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. . . .

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Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

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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)

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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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