🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Ecotastrophes

📁 Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry :: (Next Category) 🡆

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.

Resources filtered by TAG: “57th century A.M.” (clear filter)

Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first?

Gebet wenn Seuchen oder epidemische Krankheiten herrsche | Prayer When Epidemic Diseases Prevail, a teḥinah by Meïr Letteris (1846)

“Gebet einer Frau, wenn Seuchen oder epidemische Krankheiten herrschen” was written by Meïr haLevi Letteris and published in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (1846), pp. 110-112. In 1852, this teḥinah was translated into English (with a short prayer added for children) by Miriam Wertheimer under the title “Prayer when epidemic diseases prevail” in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 70-71. The sad inspiration for this prayer was likely the 1846-1860 Cholera Pandemic. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 1846-1860 Cholera Pandemic, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Jewry, English vernacular prayer, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Miriam Wertheimer (translation), Meïr haLevi Letteris and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Supplication Before the Divine Throne During an Outbreak of Asiatic Cholera in Montreal by Rabbi Abraham de Sola (1849)

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. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Asiatic Cholera, Cholera, English Translation, Epidemic, free translation, Montreal, North American Jewry, pestilence

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

Prayer for the cessation of a cattle plague and for protection from cholera, by Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (1865)

This is a prayer for cattle afflicted by an epizootic contagion (in this case, Rinderpest, a/k/a cattle plague), and for the protection of human beings from cholera, prescribed by the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain, Nathan Marcus Adler, and published in The Hebrew Leader (24 November 1865), p. 1. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 1863–1875 cholera pandemic, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., animal protection, British Jewry, domesticated animals, English vernacular prayer, epizootic contagion

Contributor(s): Nathan Marcus Adler, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UHC of the UK & the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Thanksgiving Day prayer in honor of King Umberto Ⅰ of Italy upon the passing of a cholera epidemic, by Rabbi Sobato Morais (28 November 1884)

This prayer in admiration of King Umberto Ⅰ of Italy after the passing of a cholera epidemic was preserved on page 246 of the Sobato Morais Scrapbook (a/k/a, the Morais Ledger) in a clipping from the Philadelphia Inquirer on 28 November 1884, “The Church and Its Duty: Rev. S. Morais on the Limits of Politics in the Pulpit.” . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics, 🇮🇹 Italy

Tags: 1881–1896 cholera pandemic, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers for leaders

Contributor(s): Sabato Morais and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפלה על המגפה שתעצר | Prayer for Cessation of the Disease Now Raging, by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster (1892)

A prayer for the end of a cholera epidemic written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster in 1892. . . .

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 1881–1896 cholera pandemic, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Epidemic, Spanish-Portuguese

Contributor(s): Moses Gaster and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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)

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/index.php?cat=1075

Associated Image:

🧿

(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)

Terms of Use: Be a mentsch (a conscientious, considerate person) and adhere to the following guidelines:

Properly attribute any information in the description of this archive page to the Open Siddur Project (<https://opensiddur.org>).
Clearly indicate the date you accessed this page and in what ways, if any, you modified it. (If you have adapted the work, let us know so that the contributor might consider endorsing your revision.)
Provide the stable link to this archive: <https://opensiddur.org/index.php?cat=1075>.
Indicate that the original page was shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license. (To redistribute or remix this page in any format, modified or unmodified, you must refer to the terms of the CC BY-SA license.)

Additional Notes:

The views expressed on this page and in these shared works represents the views of their creator(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Open Siddur Project's developers, its diverse community of volunteer contributors, or its institutional partners.
We strongly advise against printing sacred texts and art containing divine names as these copies must be regarded with reverence, complicating their casual treatment and disposal.
If you must dispose of a printed sacred text (one containing Divine Names), please locate the closest genizah (often established by a synagogue) and contact its custodians for further instructions. We also recommend using Morah Yehudis Fishman's Prayer for Adding a Work to the Genizah.

Support this work: The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.

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

Pocket Reddit Facebook Bluesky Telegram WhatsApp SMS Email