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This is an archive of prayers composed in response to or in anxious anticipation of an attack intended to invoke communal terror and distress.

Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a transcription and translation of a historical prayer.

Resources filtered by TAG: “Israeli–Palestinian conflict” (clear filter)

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Prayer for Peace in Israel, by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UK & the Commonwealth, 2003)

According to the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust (RSLT), “A Prayer for Peace in Israel” was composed by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks following terror attacks in Israel in 2003 (i.e., during the Second Intifada). The text of the prayer appearing here was shared by the RSLT via their Facebook page in the context of the 2022 Tel Aviv Shooting. . . .

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, peace, Second Intifada, ישראל Yisrael

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

פתח לנו שער בעת נעילת שער | Open for us a gate at the closing of a gate, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx (2005)

A prayer for the State of Israel during conflicts over sovereignty and dispossession. . . .

Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), Terror

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Gaza, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, Israeli disengagement from Gaza, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, נעילה‎ neilah, protection, the Occupation

Contributor(s): David W. Nelson (translation), Moshe Silberschein (translation) and Dalia Marx

תפילה מאת הרב עדין שטײנזלץ | A Prayer [in Response to Terror] by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

This is an undated prayer written attributed to Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (1937-2020) and shared via the Facebook page of Merkaz Steinsaltz (the Steinsaltz Center). The English translation (possibly also made by Rabbi Steinsaltz) was shared by the Center in a separate document. . . .

Categories: Terror, War

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Needing Vocalization

Contributor(s): Adin Steinsaltz

תפילת השעה | Prayer of the Moment [after the Neve Yaakov synagogue shooting], by Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch (Knesset haRabanim l’Yisrael 2023)

“Tefilah haSha’ah” (Prayer of the Moment) was offered by Rav Avi Novis-Deutsch and shared by the Knesset haRabbanim l’Yisrael via their Facebook page on 29 January 2023. The English translation was shared by the Rabbinical Assembly via their Facebook page a few hours later. We have transcribed the prayer from the source image and set the Hebrew side-by-side with its translation in English. . . .

Categories: Mass Shootings & Gun Violence, Terror

Tags: 2023 East Jerusalem synagogue shooting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Contributor(s): the Rabbinical Assembly of America, Knesset haRabanim b'Yisrael, Avi Novis-Deutsch and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer from a Traumatized Jewish Heart, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (10 October 2023)

“A Prayer from a Traumatized Jewish Heart” was written by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared by the author via the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook, 10 October 2023. . . .

Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Terror, War

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor

Prayer [after the massacres on Shemini Atseret 5784], by Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed

This prayer was offered by Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed in the days following the attacks of Ḥamas and its allies from Gaza on southern Israel beginning Shemini Atseret 5784 (7 October 2023). The English translation was made Rabbi Zac Kamenetz and Rabbi Marc Margolius. . . .

Categories: Terror, War

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Contributor(s): Zac Kamenetz (translation), Marc Margolius (translation) and Melila Hellner-Eshed

יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְּפָּנֶיךָ | Prayer for an End to Injustice on Earth, by Anonymous

This “Prayer for an end to injustice on Earth” by an anonymous author, was first published in בצרור החיים: A Yizkor Supplement for Palestinian Life (Halachic Left 2024), pages 34-35. . . .

Categories: Pogroms & Genocide, Terror, War

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-predatory, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Needing Translation (into Arabic), Universal Peace

Contributor(s): Justin Kerber (translation), Anonymous Author(s) and Halachic Left

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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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