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Congregation & Community

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

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Benediction for Charity Meeting, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“Benediction for Charity Meeting” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 74, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . .

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Benediction, English vernacular prayer, צדקה tsedaqah

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the World Union of Progressive Judaism Conference, by Lilian Helen Montagu

This undated prayer offered at one of the World Union of Progressive Judaism Conferences by the Hon. Lily H. Montagu (1873-1963) from the archives of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, was published in, Lily Montagu: Sermons, Addresses, Letters, and Prayers (ed. Ellen M. Umansky, 1985), p. 355. . . .

Categories:

Congregation & Community

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Separation

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A prayer for a country poised between demise and rebirth, by Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein (Applied Jewish Spirituality 2023)

Written on 6 Nisan 5783, 27 March 2023 (after nightfall), in response to the Israeli people’s spontaneous demonstrations against the government’s attempts to amass virtually unchecked power. . . .

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

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2023 Israeli judicial reform protests, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., עם ישראל Am Yisrael, democracy, democratic process, English vernacular prayer, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Religious Zionism, זכירות zekhirot

Contributor(s):

Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality

A Prayer for Clergy, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

This prayer for rabbis, cantors, educators, and other congregational workers was offered by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared by the author through the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook, 20 October 2023. . . .

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

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2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Gratitude

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

A Prayer for Librarians, by Trisha Arlin

“A Prayer for Librarians” by Trisha Arlin was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 7 December 2024. . . .

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Congregation & Community, 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, memory, Prayers as poems, יזכור yizkor

Contributor(s):

Trisha Arlin

Find the Lily, a prayer-poem by Trisha Arlin

“Find the Lily” is a prayer-poem written in first person by Trisha Arlin. It was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 6 November 2024. . . .

Categories:

Congregation & Community

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s):

Trisha Arlin

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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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