This is an archive of unique and representative prayers offered for the welfare of one’s government and country in the Jewish Diaspora. (For specific historical versions of the prayer “Hanoten Teshuah” not appearing in this category, look under the category for the country in which it was offered.) Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a translation of an existing prayer. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Tag Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range
“Universal intercessory prayer” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 76-77. It is not found in the US edition. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An original prayer for the government of the United States, Ohio, and the city of Cincinnati by Rabbi H.A. Henry was published in an article, “Emendation of the Liturgy” in The Asmonean (21 June 1850), p. 6. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for the government of a Republic (in contradistinction to a Kingdom) was offered in a Letter to the Editor by Abraham Prince (as “A. Prince”), an optician representing their Boston congregation, Ohabei Shalom.[foot]For more on Abraham Prince, Ohabei Shalom, and Boston’s early Jewish community, find “Boston: A Close Community” by Robert P. Swierenga in The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora (2018).[/foot] The prayer appeared in The Asmonean (26 November 1852), on page 5. At the time, reformist minded rabbis and congregations in the United States were interested in liturgical alternatives to the form of the prayer for the government found in Hanotén Teshu’ah, to more pointedly or appropriately signal their approval of the representative government that guaranteed their minority rights and equal representation under the Constitution. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Father of nations! Judge divine!” by Penina Moïse, was published in 1856, and appears under the subject of “Our Country” as Hymn 149 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), pp. 144-146. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The full text of Rabbi Jacob Goldstein’s prayer offered at the Democratic National Convention, July 14th, 1992. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of Canada: its government, its leaders, and its people. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the government and of good governance in the United States of America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the great aspirations of the country of the United States of America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for collective and communal well-being with an emphasis on dismantling systems of oppression and repairing their harms. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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