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Epidemics & Pandemics

This is an archive of prayers composed in the event of an epidemic or pandemic.

If you have composed a prayer in such an event, please share it here.

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תפלה בלחש | A Whispered Prayer (for protection from noxious air and people), by Tsvi Hirsch Robinson (1909)

A prayer for protection against noxious gases and people. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics, Well-being, health, and caregiving

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Cholera, false piety, protection

Contributor(s): Oren Steinitz, Tsvi Hirsch Robinson and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּחִינָה װען עס ברעכט אױס אַ מַגֵפָה | A Tkhine When an Epidemic Breaks Out (1916)

A tkhine in the event of an epidemic. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Epidemic, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Meena-Lifshe Viswanath (translation), Zach Golden (translation), Noam Lerman (translation), Der Tekhines Proyekt and Unknown Author(s)

מענטשן־פרעסער | Mentshn-Fresser (“People Devourer”), a Pandemic Ballad by Shlomo Shmulevitsh (1916)

A song in Yiddish bemoaning the suffering brought about in an epidemic. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 1889–1890 flu pandemic, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Epidemic, Pandemic, Tuberculosis, Yiddish songs, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Daniel Kahn (translation), Yeva Lapsker (translation), Patrick Farrell (translation), Sveta Kundish (translation) and Shlomo Shmulevitz

[Prayer During] the Epidemic of 1918, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach

This prayer for “The Epidemic of 1918” by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach is found in his, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on pages 126-127. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 1918-1920 influenza pandemic, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] After the Epidemic, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (ca. 1920)

This prayer for “After the Epidemic [of 1918]” by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach is found in his, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on page 127. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 1918-1920 influenza pandemic, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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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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