Often, when people refer to “Rebbe Naḥman’s Prayer for Peace,” they are referring to a more recent prayer combining portions of a number of prayers of Reb Noson of Nemyriv, including this one Liqutei Tefilot Ⅱ:53. In addition to a prayer for peace and the eradication of war, the prayer requests rain in its due time, excellence in Torah study, and protection from unworthy students of Torah. Reb Noson of Nemirov adapted his teḥinot from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman of Bratslav in Liqutei Moharan Ⅱ:60.

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Imminent Communal Danger & Distress, Mass Shootings & Gun Violence, Pogroms & Genocide, War

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov)

Contributor(s):

Noson Sternhartz of Nemyriv and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפילה לשלום באירופה | Prayer for Peace in Europe during the Italian War of Independence (ca. 19th c.)

This is a transcription, vocalization, and translation of a manuscript of a prayer for peace in Europe held in the collection of the Columbia University Library. The prayer is undated but the language of the prayer and the use of Italian indicate to me that this was a prayer made by an Italian Jewish community during either the first Italian War of Independence 1848-9, or one of the two succeeding wars in 1860 and 1870.

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Imminent Communal Danger & Distress, War

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Italian Jewry, Italian vernacular prayer, Italian War of Independence

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Dans un temps de calamité publique | [Prayer] in a time of public calamity, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer during an event of immanent communal danger and distress.

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Imminent Communal Danger & Distress

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

תחנות על שימוש במקלט | Teḥinot on the Use of a Bomb Shelter, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

These teḥinot on descending into and ascending out of a shelter were written as a response to the Iran war of 2026, which featured a lot of descending into and ascending out of shelters. The teḥinah on ascending is inspired by the minhag not to write the book of Eikha on klaf, because klaf represents permanence, and we pray someday to no longer need to recite it.

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Imminent Communal Danger & Distress, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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2026 Iran War, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., bombing, כוונות kavvanot, שיר המעלות Shir haMa'alot, תחינות teḥinot, War

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

🆕 תפילה לתענית | The Six Additional Blessings for a 24-Blessing ‘Amidah for Declared Fast Days, according to Vat. Ross. 499 fol. 57v–62r (1446)

The Italian rite, unique among Jewish rites, has preserved up until very recently the custom recorded in the Talmud, Masekhet Tagnanith, for communally declared fast days. In this rite, sometimes referred to as the Twenty-Four Blessings, six more blessings are added to the liturgy — the Zikhronot and Shofrot portions more commonly recited on Rosh haShanah, and four different psalms, all interspaced with a poetic litany on behalf of the ancestors’ merit and shofar blasts. I had previously transcribed the version of this liturgy as found in the Goldschmidt Mahzor Roma. But this version below is different, including a more complex variation in the ancestors’ merit passages, as well as relevant Biblical passages for each one. It is found in Vat. Ross. 499, a 1446 manuscript of the Italian rite with a lot of very interesting liturgical content in it.

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Additional Fast Days, Imminent Communal Danger & Distress

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, ascetic practice, fasting, in the merit of our ancestors, Italian Jewry, Nusaḥ Italḳi, Public Amidah, שופר shofar, shofar blowing

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown

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