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Elections & Voting

This is an archive of prayers offered in an election season in democratic polities around the world. It includes prayers offered at political party conventions and prayers for voting up until and including election day internationally.

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תפילה למצביעי המדינה | Prayer for the Electorate, by David Zvi Kalman (2016)

A prayer for the electorate to be recited together with the Prayer for Government on the Shabbat before an election (federal, state, or local). . . .

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, democracy, Philadelphia, תחינות teḥinot, United States, United States General Election 2016, voting

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David Zvi Kalman

תפילה להצבעה | A Prayer on Voting, by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson (T’ruah 2016)

On Tuesday, we go to the polls in a momentous election that for many of us has generated a combination of anxiety, excitement, fear, and confusion. We offer you this prayer, which you can recite this Shabbat, before you vote, or while you are waiting for returns. . . .

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🇺🇸 Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st), Elections & Voting

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, democracy, United States, United States General Election 2016, voting

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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Lev Meirowitz Nelson

תפילה פרטית לשם הצבעה | Private Prayer for Voting, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (2020)

A private prayer for fulfilling your civic duty and voting, whether in a voting booth or by mail. The concluding partial berakhah (without its full preamble, so as to avoid a berakhah levatala) is traditionally stated upon seeing a king of a nation, so in a democratic regime it seems appropriate to adopt for the voters. . . .

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🇺🇸 Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st), Elections & Voting

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, democracy, United States, United States General Election 2020, voting

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תפילה על האיחוי והרעות | A Prayer for Brotherhood, Unity, and Friendship on Israeli Election Day (2020)

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. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇮🇱 Yom haB'ḥirut, Elections & Voting

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2020 Israeli legislative election, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, difference disagreement and deviance, disagreement, tolerance of difference, ישראל Yisrael

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Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Martin Samuel Cohen and the Masorti Movement in Israel

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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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