 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “A Prayer for Removing the Mask,” was composed by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx and Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem in June 2021. The English translation was made by Alex Cicelsky. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Liturgy for a motsei shabbat havdallah ritual centering the experience of those with long-COVID. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This prayer for a parent (or primary caregiver) on the vaccination of their children by Cantor Hinda Labovitz was first shared via their Facebook page on 5 November 2021, . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer upon receiving a vaccination for COVID. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of gratitude upon receiving a COVID vaccination. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 21st century C.E., State v. Chauvin, 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, September 2020 Western United States wildfires, 2020 United States racial reckoning A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow in 2021 reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Hoshana prayer supplement for Hoshana Rabbah during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in 2020. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer disseminated by the Masorti Movement in Israel in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in Israel and around the world. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An adaptation of the kinnah, “Eli Tsiyon v’Ar’eha,” Composed for Tisha B’Av 5780 in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: COVID-19 coronavirus, מי שברך mi sheberakh, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel, 21st century C.E., Masorti Movement, 58th century A.M., Epidemic, ישראל Yisrael, Pandemic, 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, Needing Vocalization A prayer in response to the suffering of the coronavirus and the danger posed by its global spread. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Mi Sheberakh prayer offered on behalf of those battling, suffering from, and imperiled by the 2019-2020 Coronavirus Outbreak and pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Yizkor and other prayers for Shemini Atsertet during the coronavirus pandemic in 5781 (2020). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for those administering vaccinations. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for health and safety in public, communal prayer during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A private prayer for those dwelling in quarantine and are unable to fulfill any mitzvot that require public action. Can be recited as part of the “Shomea Tefilah” section of the amidah, or independently. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the medical workers and researchers on the front lines of treating the afflicted and finding a cure for the COVID19 coronavirus pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer disseminated by the Assemblea Dei Rabbini D’Italia in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in Italy and around the world. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer from the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for those receiving vaccinations. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Viddui written for Jews who are losing a beloved to a plague, and who may not be able to be physically present or close to their loved one. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A kavvanah before a vaccination offered by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried of Ḳ.Ḳ. Beit Tefilah Yisraeli in Tel Aviv. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for workers and worker needs amid the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer offered in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, by Rav Shmuly Yanklowitz (Valley Beit Midrash) . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Passover supplement created for recitation at Passover seders in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A liturgy of symbolic foods exclusively for the eve of the Hebrew new year 5781. A traditional egalitarian Hebrew text being a newly revised liturgy with contemporary text and additional prayers suitable to our perilous and worrisome state at the beginning of this second year of the pandemic and including a modern English translation together with learned annotations and guidance for observance in the home. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A song in Yiddish bemoaning the suffering brought about in an epidemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A tkhine in the event of an epidemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for protection against noxious gases and people. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the end of a cholera epidemic written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster in 1892. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A popular prophylactic amulet in the event of an epidemic. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This is a faithful transcription of a prayer appearing at the end of a sermon delivered by Rabbi Abraham de Sola in K.K. Shearith Yisrael (Montreal), “during the prevalence of asiatic cholera,” and subsequently published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate (7:7, Tishrei 5610/October 1849). The English translation is a “free translation” made by Rabbi Abraham de Sola. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This is a prayer for the welfare of domesticated animals (behemot), specifically cattle. “Tefilat mashbit milḥamot v’ha-dever min ha-behemot” (HUC MS 465) was composed by an unknown author, sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century, and possibly in a Jewish community in Italy. The text contains the following clues: 1) a prayer for a local Duke (instead of the Emperor Napoleon), 2) mention of warfare, and 3) mention of some variety of epizootic contagious disease among cattle. Rinderpest, known since ancient times, is the most likely candidate for the latter, especially in Italy in the 18th century (where it was first described by early veterinary science) but it was also in Europe following the defeat of Napoleon. While typhus and hoof-and-mouth disease are also possible, Dr. Susan Einbinder, who brought our attention to this prayer via a lecture on epidemic prayers for the HUC Klau Library, notes that the biblical reference to the “bellowing of the cattle” evokes the actual tortuous lived experience of the afflicted animals, and the suffering of their human minders, helpless to relieve them. The tragedy of rinderpest only ended in the 20th century after a concerted multi-national effort to eradicate the disease — one of the earliest modern multinational initiatives to improve the world. (A related disease, Ovine Rinderpest, first described in the 20th century, has not yet been eradicated and affects goats and sheep as well as cattle.) . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This seliḥah, “Moshel ba-Elyonim Atah Yadata,” was written by Rabbi Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach during an epidemic. It is included in the Seliḥot of Posen, Krakow, Prague, Worms, and Alsace. The text here was transcribed from the Siddur Kol Bo, vol. 3 (1923), p. 33. . . . |