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Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry

This is an archive of prayers composed in response to an incident of hateful intolerance, prejudice, and bigotry.

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Our Enemies, an exhortation to look inward to resolve conflict (CCAR 1923)

“Our Enemies” is the thirty-first prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 105-107. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume. However, the pacifist language and argument in this prayer strongly identifies it as having been written by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach.

Categories:

Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Self-Reflection

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., combating anti-Jewish oppression, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, Jewish pacifism, paraliturgical shover oyvim, שובר אויבים shover oyvim, teḥinot in English, תוכחות tokheḥot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Abraham Cronbach and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

[Prayer for] Our Contemners, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (1924)

Titled “Our Contemners,” this prayer from Rabbi Abraham Cronbach is the second in his collection of prayer, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on pages 8 through 11.

Categories:

Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., combating anti-Jewish oppression, English vernacular prayer, Jewish pacifism, paraliturgical shover oyvim, שובר אויבים shover oyvim, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] in Spring, by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (ca. 1950s)

A prayer “in spring” that uses the metaphor of mining for seeking out the goodness in one’s fellow.

Categories:

Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Community, English vernacular prayer, fellowship, love your fellow as yourself, Problematic prayers, Trenton Six

Contributor(s):

Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "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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