Dying • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

אֱלֹהִים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל | Elohim b’Yisrael :: A piyyuṭ containing the 42 Letter Name, recorded in Sefer haPeliah

Nir Krakauer (translation) — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:36:34 +0000

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אָנָּא בְּכֹחַ | Ana b’Khoaḥ, a 42 letter name piyyuṭ with a singing translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:48:48 +0000

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אָנָּא בְּכֹחַ | Ana b’Khoaḥ, with Spanish translation by Rabbi Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero (1552)

Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 08:56:04 +0000

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אֶהְיֶה בְּעֵדֶן | Ehyeh b’Aden :: A piyyuṭ containing the 42 Letter Name, in Sefer Ma’avar Yaḇoq (1626)

Aharon Berekhiah ben Mosheh of Modena — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:54:22 +0000

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אֵל בָּרוּךְ | El Barukh :: A piyyuṭ containing the 42 Letter Name, recorded by Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz

Nir Krakauer (translation) — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 05:31:23 +0000

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With years oppress’d, with sorrows worn — an adaptation in English verse of Psalms 71 by Sir Robert Grant

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:23:02 +0000

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With musings sad my spirit teems — an adaptation in English verse of Psalms 49 by Sir Robert Grant (1821)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:23:41 +0000

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Whom have I in heaven and on earth? — by Sir Robert Grant (1827)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:41:44 +0000

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Meditation on Death, by Grace Aguilar (1835)

Grace Aguilar — Fri, 19 May 2023 21:46:36 +0000

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Prayer before retiring to rest, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

Grace Aguilar — Sun, 14 May 2023 04:42:41 +0000

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O! Thou Possest of Health and Bloom, a hymn on “Immortality of the Soul” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:41:09 +0000

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Meditation on Immortality, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 21:56:41 +0000

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Prayer for Salvation in the Future State (Olam haBa), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:13:09 +0000

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Prayer for Resignation Under Injuries, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:10:34 +0000

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A Wish, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1853)

Rosa Emma Salaman — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 08:39:32 +0000

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The City of Light, a poem by Felix Adler (1882)

Felix Adler — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:20:28 +0000

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Yea, More Than They — a prayer-poem for Shabbat parashat Mas’ei by Alice Montefiore Lucas (1898)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:56 +0000

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הֵצִיץ וָמֵת | He Gazed and Died, a poem on the death of the sage Shimon ben Azzai by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1916)

Ruth Nevo (translation) — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 04:40:51 +0000

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Immortality (CCAR 1923)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:45:57 +0000

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“To whom life is everlasting” a prayer in the face of mortality by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (1927)

Clifton Harby Levy — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:07:40 +0000

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ברכות־הנפטרין על פי האמונה הבוקוניסטית | the Last Rites of Bokonon, by Kurt Vonnegut (1963, Hebrew translation by Amatsyah Porat 1978)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:17:59 +0000

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Holy Tears: A Not-Ḳaddish, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

Menachem Creditor — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:47:57 +0000

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Viddui for Coronavirus, by Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner (2020)

Ora Nitkin-Kaner — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:35:39 +0000

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