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This is an archive of prayers offered for the welfare of the democratic constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the well-being of its multicultural, post-colonial civil society.

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הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | The Prayer for the Safety of Kings, Princes and Commonwealths, presented by Menasseh ben Israel to Oliver Cromwell (1655)

The text of Hanoten Teshua in its English translation as presented by Menasseh ben Israel to Oliver Cromwell in 1655. We have reconstructed the corresponding Hebrew from the S&P nusaḥ of the Jewish community in Amsterdam.

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Government & Country, 🇳🇱 the Netherlands, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., diplomacy, England, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Oliver Cromwell, reconstructed text, Spanish-Portuguese, Western Sefaradim

Contributor(s):

Menasseh ben Israel (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Prosperity of his Royal Majesty, delivered by Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leon Templo to King Charles Ⅱ (1675)

Rabbi Jacob Judah Leon’s Prayer for King Charles II, from his 1675 booklet, was the first Jewish prayer in English for an English king (Mocatta Library, University College London).

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., British Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, King Charles Ⅱ, Netherlandish Jewry, reconstructed text, Sephardic Diaspora, Western Sefaradim

Contributor(s):

Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leão (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for King George Ⅲ (1766)

The prayer for King George III in the English colonies before the Revolutionary War.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, British Empire, British Monarchy, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Ḳ.Ḳ. Shearith Israel, reconstructed text

Contributor(s):

Isaac Pinto (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of King George Ⅲ (1810)

The prayer, haNoten Teshu’a, as adapted for King George III in 1810.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of Queen Victoria (1864)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Queen Victoria.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Queens

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of King Edward Ⅶ (1904)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Edward VII.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah

Contributor(s):

Arthur Davis (translation), Herbert Adler (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of King George Ⅴ (1931)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for King George V.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah

Contributor(s):

Moses Gaster and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of King George Ⅵ (1942)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for King George VI.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, King George Ⅵ, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s):

Joseph Herman Hertz and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ (1962)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Queen Elizabeth II.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, Queens

Contributor(s):

Israel Brodie, Joseph Herman Hertz and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family and Armed Forces of Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ (2014)

In 2014, the formula of “haNoten Teshua” suggested by the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UK and the Commonwealth, was amended by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, to include a short passage in recognition of the United Kingdom’s armed forces.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, Queens

Contributor(s):

Ephraim Mirvis, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations and Unknown

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer in honour of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations 2016)

This “Prayer in honour of the Queen’s 90th birthday,” was first delivered by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis for the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth on Shabbat 11th June 2016, and shared via their website in English. Side-by-side with the English we have set the Hebrew text from the formula of the traditional prayer “haNoten Teshua” as used by the Office of the Chief Rabbi as amended in 2014.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Prayers for leaders, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, Queens

Contributor(s):

Ephraim Mirvis, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family and Armed Forces of King Charles Ⅲ (2022)

This is the formula of the prayer for the government established by chief rabbi Joseph H. Hertz as introduced in 1935 for King George IV at the Royal Jubilee Service and included in his revised Authorised Prayer Book, vol. II (1942/3), p. 506-507. In 2014, this formula was amended by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UK and the Commonwealth, to include a short passage in recognition of the United Kingdom’s armed forces.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, King Charles Ⅲ

Contributor(s):

Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations, Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

In the aftermath of an attempted assassination, a Prayer Service of Thanksgiving for the wellbeing of King George Ⅲ — by Rabbi Moses Myers and David Levi (29 October 1795)

This is a full transcription of a patriotic and civic prayer service offered on 29 October 1795 at the German Jews’ Synagogue in London, composed by chief Rabbi Moses Myers and translated into English by David Levi. The prayers on behalf of King George Ⅲ came in the aftermath of the unraveling of the “Popgun Plot,” an alleged 1794 conspiracy by three members of the London Corresponding Society to assassinate the kning by means of a poison dart fired from an airgun. Three members, Paul Thomas LeMaitre, John Smith, and George Higgins, were arrested in late 1794, and Robert Thomas Crossfield in December 1795. Ultimately, all four were acquitted of treason in May 1796, on the grounds that the chief witness against them was dead.

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Insurrections, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., assassination, British Empire, British Jewry, civic prayers, Great French Revolution, King George Ⅲ, London Corresponding Society, Prayers after an attempted assassination, Prayers for leaders

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Levi (translation), Moses Myers and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations

A Prayer Service in Thanksgiving for the military success of British over French Napoleonic forces, by Rabbi Moses Myers and David Levi (29 November 1798)

This is a full transcription of a patriotic and civic prayer service offered on 29 November 1798 at the German Jews’ Synagogue in London, composed by chief Rabbi Moses Myers and translated into English by David Levi. The unique prayers by Rabbi Myers are openly anti-French and anti-Napoleonic, in alignment with British sentiment in the war against the forces of Napoleon and thrilled with the naval defeat of Napoleonic forces at the Battle of the Nile in August of that year by rear admiral Horatio Nelson.

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War, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, civic prayers, First French Empire, Horatio Nelson, King George Ⅲ, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Prayers for leaders, United Kingdom in the Napoleonic Wars

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Levi (translation), Moses Myers and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations

אֵל שְׁמֹר הַמֶּֽלֶךְ | God Save the King (Hebrew translation with an additional stanza by Hyman Hurwitz 1831)

“God Save the King” was originally written by an unknown author and circulated in three stanzas during the reign of Britain’s King George Ⅱ, circa 1745. This Hebrew translation, “El Shemor haMelekh,” as translated by Hyman Hurwitz with an added fourth stanza, was first published in his The Etymology and Syntax of the Hebrew Language (1831), pp. 276-279, during the reign of King William Ⅳ (1765-1837).

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, British Monarchy, אל שמר El Shemor, King George Ⅱ, King William Ⅳ, national anthems

Contributor(s):

Hyman Hurwitz, Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Universal Intercessory Prayer, a prayer for Queen Victoria and the United Kingdom by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1837)

“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.

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Government & Country, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Queen Victoria, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for a Day of Prayer and Humiliation on Account of the Crimean War, by the Synagogues of the United Congregations of the British Empire (26 April 1854)

This prayer in support of the Crimean War was offered by Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire on the National Day of Humiliation and Prayer, 26 April 1854, and published in The Asmonian (19 May 1854), on page 6.

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War, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, Crimea, Crimean War, English vernacular prayer, Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, Second French Empire

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Nathan Marcus Adler

Prayer for a Day of Prayer and Humiliation on Account of the Revolt in India, by the S&P Bevis Marks Congregation (6 November 1857)

This “Prayer for a day of prayer and humiliation on account of the revolt in India” is the second of two prayers appearing in article titled, “Humiliation” appearing in The Asmonean (6 November 1857), on page 5. As an introduction, the article begins: “The British nation have been holding a day of humiliation on account of the revolt in India. The following are copies of the prayers specially composed for the occasion.” The prayer is attributed simply to the S&P Synagogue (in London, a/k/a Bevis Marks Congregation) but the author was likely the Hazan of the synagogue at the time, Rabbi David de Aaron de Sola.

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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, War, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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British East India Company, British Empire, British Jewry, Colonialism, Hindustan, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Mughal Empire

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and David de Aaron de Sola

Prayer for a Day of Prayer and Humiliation on Account of the Revolt in India, by the Synagogues of the United Congregations of the British Empire (6 November 1857)

This “Prayer for a day of prayer and humiliation on account of the revolt in India” is the first of two prayers appearing in an article titled, “Humiliation” appearing in The Asmonean (6 November 1857), on page 5. As an introduction, the article begins: “The British nation have been holding a day of humiliation on account of the revolt in India. The following are copies of the prayers specially composed for the occasion.” The prayer is attributed simply to the Synagogues of the United Congregations of the British Empire but the author was likely its chief rabbi, Nathan Marcus Adler.

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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, War, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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British East India Company, British Empire, British Jewry, Colonialism, Hindustan, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Mughal Empire

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Nathan Marcus Adler and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations

תְּפִלָּה לְהַצְלָחַת חַיִל הַמַּלְכָּה בְּאֶרֶץ כּוּשׁ | A Prayer for Her Majesty’s Forces in the Sudan, by Rabbi Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler (1885)

This prayer for the well-being of Her Majesty’s military forces in the Sudan, was offered by chief rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler for use by the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire in the context of British involvement in the Mahdist War, and specifically after news reached Britain of the Battle of Abu Klea in January 1885.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Military Personnel & Veterans

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, Egyptian Jewry, Mahdist War

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Nathan Marcus Adler and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations

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