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תהלים קמ״ב | Psalms 142, a maskil with translations in English and Arabic

Ephraim Mirvis — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 04:23:26 +0000

This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, forced labor and captivity endured under a variety of conditions spanning chattel slavery, forced marriages and the plight of agunot, unjust imprisonment and hazardous living conditions of prisoners, and the welfare of hostages taken captive by terrorists and unlawful combatants in contravention of the laws of war.

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📄 Scaling the Walls of the Labyrinth: Psalms 67 and Ana b’Khoaḥ

Unknown — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:06:59 +0000

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אַחֵֽינוּ וְאַחֱיוֹתֵנוּ | Aḥeinu v’Aḥeiyoteinu, an inclusive adaptation of the prayer for captives after 7 October 2023 by Me’ira Rakhel Pitkapaasi

Me'ira Rakhel Pitkapaasi (translation) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:33:10 +0000

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אַחֵֽינוּ | Aḥeinu (Our siblings)

Unknown — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:07:48 +0000

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יש מקומות שנהגו לבקש רחמים על האסור בבית האסורים כדרך הזה | A piyyut and mi sheberakh for captives, in a late medieval manuscript from France in the Braginsky Collection

Aharon N. Varady (translation) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:19:04 +0000

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אָנָּא בְּכֹחַ | Ana b’Khoaḥ, a 42 letter name piyyuṭ with a singing translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:48:48 +0000

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אָנָּא בְּכֹחַ | Ana b’Khoaḥ, with Spanish translation by Rabbi Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero (1552)

Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 08:56:04 +0000

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דאָנאַ, דאָנאַ | Dona, Dona — a song by Aaron Zeitlin for the Yiddish play Esterke (1940), with Ladino and Aramaic translations by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:55:08 +0000

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The path of the righteous man (הַדֶרֶךְ שֶׁל הַצָדִיק Ha-derekh shel ha-tsadiq) — from the film The Bodyguard (1976), adapted by Jules Winnfield in the film Pulp Fiction (1994)

Shmueli Gonzales (transcription) — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:42:40 +0000

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תפילה לעגונות | Prayer for the Liberation of Agunot, by Shelley Frier List (2005)

Shelley Frier List — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:20:06 +0000

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מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ לְהַתָּרַת עֲגוּנוֹת וּמְסֹרְבוֹת גֵּט | Mi sheBerakh for the Release of Agunot and Women Denied a Writ of Divorce, by Dr. Yael Levine (2006)

Yael Levine — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:34:39 +0000

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מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ | Mi sheBerakh for Victims of Slavery, by Rabbi Joshua Boettiger (2009)

Joshua Boettiger — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:00:34 +0000

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מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ לְפִדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִם | Mi sheBerakh for the redemption of those in captivity (or whose whereabouts are unknown)

Ephraim Mirvis — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:50:54 +0000

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Prayer for the Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls, by Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yisraëli (2014)

R' Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli — Thu, 08 May 2014 11:37:48 +0000

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תפילה להצלתם של הבחורים החטופים | Prayer for the rescue of the kidnapped youths, by Rabbi Shlomo Mosheh Amar (16 June 2014)

Shlomo Mosheh Amar — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:20:02 +0000

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Newly Huddled Tender Masses: A Prayer for Children, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2018)

Menachem Creditor — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 04:29:43 +0000

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מי שברך לעגונות | Mi sheBerakh to Support Agunot and Call Get Refusers to Account, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:17:34 +0000

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תפילה לעגונות ומסורבות הגט | Prayer for Agunot refused a Get, by Rabbi Alona Lisitsa

Alona Lisitsa — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:06:19 +0000

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תְּפִלָּה לְפִדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִם | Prayer for the Redemption of Israelis Taken Captive [during the war begun on Shemini Atseret 5784], by Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit Halachmi (2023)

Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:24:56 +0000

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תפילה לשלומם ולחזרתם של הנעדרים והשבויים בין אחינו ואחיותינו | Prayer for the Welfare and the Return of Israel’s Captured and Missing from Among our Sisters and Brothers (Masorti Movement in Israel 2023)

Ehud Bandel — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:42:28 +0000

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תפילה לחיילי צהל ולשבויים חרבות ברזל | Prayers for the welfare of the IDF soldiers and the captives of the Ḥarvot Barzel War, by Ze’ev Kainan (16 October 2023)

Ze'ev Kainan — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:44:35 +0000

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Upon My Heart, a prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

Menachem Creditor — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:09:18 +0000

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קֹהֶלֶת לֹא צָדַק | Qohelet Lo Tsadaq (“Ḳohelet Wasn’t Right”) — a prayer by Rabbi Oded Mazor (24 November 2023)

Oded Mazor — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:00:08 +0000

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תְּפִלָּה לַהֲשָׁבַת הַחֲטוּפִים | Prayer for the Return of the Captives, by Rabbi David Lau (Office of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel 2024)

David Lau — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:33:48 +0000

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זָכוֹר אֵת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה לְךָ חָמָאס | Remember That Which Hamas Did, an adaptation on the liturgical reminder to obliterate Amaleq by Aryeh Barukh (2024)

Aryeh Baruch — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:41:01 +0000

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صلاه لاجل السلام | תפילה לשלום | A prayer for Peace (רוח גלילית Spirit of Galilee, 29 April 2024)

Noa Mazor — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:16:43 +0000

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אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָּדָד | Eikhah Yashvah Badad (O How She Sat Alone), a qinah by Nurit Hirschfeld-Skupinsky

Yehudah Mirsky (translation) — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:04:53 +0000

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קִינָה לְאֶרֶץ אֲהוּבָה | Qinah l’Erets Ahuvah (Lamentation for a Beloved Land), by Liora Eilon

Yehudah Mirsky (translation) — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:23:48 +0000

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אֵלֶּה אֶזְכְּרָה | These I Remember, a seliḥah before the anniversary of October 7th by Ze’ev Kainan

Ze'ev Kainan — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:21:18 +0000

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לְמַעַן יֵחָלְצוּן יְדִידֶיךָ הושִׁיעָה יְמִינְךָ וַעֲנֵנוּ | So That Your People May Be Rescued, Deliver Through Your Right Hand, and Answer Us — by Dr. Yael Levine (2024)

Yael Levine — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:54 +0000

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