A prayer for a government when that government is causing pain through malicious policies. . . .
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Contributor(s): Zackary Sholem Berger
Shared on ה׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ט (2019-07-07) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Government & Country, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags:  21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., United States Immigration Policy, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
Contributor(s): Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Martin Samuel Cohen and Masorti Movement in Israel
Shared on ד׳ באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Habḥirut, Elections & Voting, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: tolerance of difference, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, disagreement, difference disagreement and deviance, ישראל Yisrael, 2020 Israeli legislative election 
Based on the Prayer For Freedom from Strife and the Prayer that One Be a Lover and a Pursuer of Peace taken from the Liqutei Tefilot of Reb Nosson of Nemirov. Edited and reworked by Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum. English Translation: Rabbi Martin S. Cohen. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg, neohasid.org and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ד׳ באייר ה׳תשע״ח (2018-04-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, Travel
Tags: תחינות teḥinot, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh 
In this Tefilat haDerekh (the prayer for travel), I’ve made a synthesis of Ashkenazi and Sefardi nusaḥ. Even though the translation is pretty close to literal in most places, it comes across as an extraordinary and activist prayer for peace. So I think of this prayer not just as a prayer for the beginning a physical journey, but for any spiritual journey, and especially for any campaign or action for justice and peace that a person or group might undertake. When applied to activism, the “enmity and ambush and theft and predation” we ask to be rescued from could also be interpreted as hatred, deceit, jealousy, and aggression, i.e., the kinds of feelings that cause people to work against each other, even within an organization, instead of working together. I first used this version of the prayer at the beginning of a tour of Israel and Palestine focused on the human rights and non-violent resistance, when the group passed through the first checkpoint of the trip. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jonas Kaminkowski
Shared on י״ח בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, National Brotherhood Week, United Nations Day (October 24th)
Tags: 20th century C.E., war, 57th century A.M., World War I, League of Nations 
A prayer for intra-national peace, post WWI. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on כ״ח בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, New Jersey, capitalism, Post–World War II economic expansion, Cold War (1947–1953), anti-communist 
A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on כ״ט בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, American Jewry of the United States, baseball, little league baseball 
A prayer for American democracy as enshrined in Little League Baseball. . . . 
Contributor(s): Ḥanan Schlesinger
Shared on ג׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, United Nations Day (October 24th)
Tags: interconnectedness, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish particularism, particularism and universalism, Israelis and Palestinians, interdependence, human solidarity 
A prayer for human solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identity as Bnei Yisrael greatly eclipses our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . 
Contributor(s): Noa Mazor and Jonah Rank
Shared on כ״ד בתמוז ה׳תשע״ד (2014-07-21) — under the following terms: Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine, Know Before Whom You Stand, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Btselem Elohim, Da Lifnei Mi Ata Omeid, ישראל Yisrael 
Lord, our God, bring us days of good, of mercy, of life and of peace. Give our leaders the capability to see the natural sanctity embedded in every person. Give us the ability to trust human beings fighting for their way, for their lives–for our lives. Lord, lay us down along Your path–a path for loving humanity as humanity, a path for welcoming peace between neighbors: between humanity and pain. . . . 
Contributor(s): Virginia Spatz
Shared on ו׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ה (2015-08-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, Mass Shootings & Gun Violence
Tags: United States, Neighborhood Violence, 21st century C.E., Parashat Shoftim, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, שפטים Shoftim, Gun violence in the United States, Needing Translation (into Hebrew) 
“Does joy come in the morning, where weeping has not tarried for the night? Can we dance together, if we have not yet joined in lament?” This prayer is a kavanah for the morning blessings, using language and images from the prayer “Mah Tovu” [how lovely are your tents] commonly recited in the early morning blessings. Offered with special intention for the healing of Congress Heights, Capitol View, and other neighborhoods in Washington, DC, rocked by persistent violence. . . . 
Contributor(s): Nava Hefetz and Shaul Vardi (translation)
Shared on ד׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ו (2015-10-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: English Translation, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, safety, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Arabic translation, the Next Generation, Jewish-Muslim Friendship, Prayers for Children, Universal Peace 
A translation in Arabic and English of Rabbi Nava Hafetz’s prayer for the children of the world: Creator of all life, sovereign of peace, Bless our children and the children of all the world With physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You who created them in Your image And lovingly imbued them with Your spirit, Let their paths be successful in this world that You created. Give them of Your resilience and strengthen the sinews of their bodies and minds. Guard and save them from all evil For Your mercy and truth abound. Grant peace to the Land and everlasting happiness to all its inhabitants. Amen, may it be Your will . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rabbi Uri Miller
Shared on כ׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ז (2017-01-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (3rd Monday of January), Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, National Brotherhood Week
Tags: 20th century C.E., United States, social justice, democracy, civil rights, demonstrations, 57th century A.M., Btselem Elohim 
Prayer delivered by Rabbi Uri Miller, President of the Synagogue Council of America, at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 . . . 
Contributor(s): Sam Feinsmith
Shared on י״ד בתמוז ה׳תשע״ד (2014-07-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, North America, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Reconciliation, 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Needing Vocalization 
Master of compassion and forgiveness, Cosmic Majesty Who is peace— Teach us Your ways, Show us the path that preserves life. Take note, Lord, for we are suffering deeply. Our guts are wrenched, Our hearts are turning within us. Violence has devoured outside, and inside it feels deathly. When enemies rose up against us to kill our babes, Courageous, precious boys, full of the light of life, shining like the radiance of the sky, Our hearts became angry, our vision lost its strength, and our spirits sunk. And still we turn to you— . . . 
Contributor(s): R' Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli
Shared on י׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-16) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, National Brotherhood Week, United Nations Day (October 24th)
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer, Christchurch mosque shootings 
A prayer for universal peace offered by Hillel Yisraeli-Lavery as an opening prayer to a talk given in Hamilton, Canada by 2011 Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee. . . . 
Contributor(s): R' Amichai Lau-Lavie (translation), Tamar Elad-Appelbaum and Sheikha Ibtisam Maḥameed
Shared on כ״א בתמוז ה׳תשע״ד (2014-07-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, United Nations Day (October 24th)
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
A prayer in Hebrew and Arabic (with translations in English and German) of solidarity of mothers for there to be peace in the world for the sake of their children. . . . 
Contributor(s): Jill Jacobs and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תשע״ט (2019-06-26) — under the following terms: Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, democracy, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, 45th President of the United States, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, 116th Congress, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof 
An invocation by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, offered at the opening dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, June 2019. . . . 
Contributor(s): Brant Rosen
Shared on כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tishah b'Av, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States Immigration Policy, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy 
A prayer for the correction of the United States immigration policy in support of immigrants and open borders. . . . 
Contributor(s): Brant Rosen and Congregation Tzedek Chicago
Shared on ג׳ בתמוז ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, health, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
A contemporary Jewish prayer for healng, used at congregation Tzedek Chicago. . . . 
Contributor(s): Brant Rosen and Congregation Tzedek Chicago
Shared on כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Government & Country, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
A prayer for collective and communal well-being with an emphasis on dismantling systems of oppression and repairing their harms. . . . 
Contributor(s): Brant Rosen
Shared on כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical Psalms 140, Psalms 140 
Psalms 140 decries the injustice tolerated, supported, and rallied around within the community of Israel. This contemporary adaptation does the same. . . . 
Contributor(s): Brant Rosen
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof 
A prayer for justice offered for the Poor People’s Campaign Rally for Action at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston on March 22, 2018. . . . 
Contributor(s): Brant Rosen
Shared on כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: peace, vows, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., affirmation, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), non-violence 
A personal declaration to become a shomer/et shalom on Yom Kippur. . . . 
Contributor(s): Gonzalo Escobar (Spanish translation) and Brant Rosen
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: United States, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, welcome the immigrant, United States Immigration Policy, welcome the stranger, interfaith prayer 
A prayer offered at the Broadview Detention Center for an interfaith vigil in support of the detainees and for change in US immigration policy. . . . |
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