The text of the Betä ʾƎsəraʾel legend of the death of Moses, translated to Hebrew by Jacques Faïtlovitch, and vocalized, cantillated, and translated into English by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . .
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Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Jacques Faïtlovitch (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ח במרחשון ה׳תש״פ (2019-11-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Mourning, Second Temple Period, Sheva b'Adar Readings
Tags:  English Translation, Mosheh Rabbenu, Hebrew translation, cemetery prayers, Beta Esrael, Ethiopian Jewry
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Translator(s) and Ehud Manor
Shared on ט״ז בתמוז ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-26) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Mourning, Rosh haShanah l'Maaseh Bereshit, Nirtsah, War
Tags: 20th century C.E., קינות Ḳinnot, Prayers as poems, ישראל Yisrael, elegies, War of Attrition, lamentation 
“baShanah haBa’ah” (Next Year) by Ehud Manor written in 1968 in memory of his brother Yehudah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Parental Guardians, prayers of single parents 
A prayer of a woman and mother who has lost her husband and is contemplating desperate circumstances. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for parents, English vernacular prayer, יאָרצײַט yortseit 
A prayer of a daughter for mourning on the yortseit of one or both of her parents. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, prayers of orphans 
A prayer of an orphan after the death of one or both of her parents. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for parents, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers 
A prayer for a daughter mounrning at the grave of her mother. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers 
A prayer for a woman mounrning at the grave of her child. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on י״ח בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers, prayers for siblings 
A prayer for a woman visiting the grave of her brother or sister. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers 
A prayer of a mother grieving over the death of her child. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers, prayers for siblings 
A prayer of a sister mourning at the grave of her sister. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers, prayers for siblings 
A prayer of a sister mourning at the grave of her brother. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers 
A prayer of a wife grieving over the death of her husband. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, prayers of orphans 
A prayer of a person who has lost their parent or parents. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for parents, English vernacular prayer, יאָרצײַט yortseit 
A prayer of a daughter on the yahrzeit of her mother or father. . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
Shared on י״ב באב ה׳תשע״ט (2019-08-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Dying, Mourning, Tishah b'Av, Ḳaddish
Tags: Gratitude, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish, English vernacular prayer 
A meditation on living through the lens of dying. . . . 
Contributor(s): Effron Esseiva
Shared on י״א בסיון ה׳תשע״א (2011-06-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: יזכור yizkor, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, Grief, burial service 
Almost two years ago my best friend passed away and I had the honour of chanting this malé raḥamim for him. In mid-May this year another friend approached me and said he really liked the way I did it at the time and could I record it for him because he was going to do it too for an unrelated unveiling. So, I recorded it on May 18, 2011. I didn’t compose it. It’s a traditional tune, but it’s my voice and I hope someone else can perhaps learn it with this material. The more resource there are out there through means such as Open Siddur the better we can learn and share. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oren Steinitz and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ה׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ז (2017-06-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Prayers During Public Readings of the Tanakh, Mourning, Ḳaddish
Tags: 20th century C.E., Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, English Translation, Jewish Renewal, No Minyan, 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, Removal of the Torah from the Ark, הוצאת ספר תורה, קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish, Needing Attribution 
This Kaddish was first published online at Jewish Renewal Chassidus by Gabbai Seth Fishman. Rabbi Oren Steinitz translated the kaddish on the 3rd yahrzeit after Reb Zalman’s passing. . . . 
Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin (liturgist)
Shared on י״ח בניסן ה׳תשע״ה (2015-04-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: shiva 
This prayer was written to introduce the service at a shiva minyan: Baruch Atah Adonai, Ruach HaOlam, Blessed One-ness, Breath of the Universe, Breathing us in, Breathing us out. Each loss breaks a pattern. We remember and we pray. We remember our loved one, _(name)_ Beloved _(relationship)_ Each loss breaks a pattern, And we remember them. We remember them Because they gave us to ourselves, We remember them Because we loved each other, And we remember Because, well, That is our job. Every loss breaks a pattern, And we pray. We pray and place ourselves in front of the fear, We place ourselves in front of the anger, We place ourselves in front of the grief, We pray and delight in our memories We pray and listen for music that reminds us there will be joy again. We pray for the long repair that happens after the patterns break. And we give thanks for the ancient traditions, Telling the story even when we can’t. Hallelu Yah, breathing in, Remembering us when we cannot. Hallelu Yah, breathing out, Praying with us when we feel alone. Amen . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Shared on ז׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ט (2019-07-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: 20th century C.E., animals, בהמות behemot, 58th century A.M., Grief, domesticated animals, burial service, interspecies relationships 
A prayer for a beloved animal first compiled in English by Aharon N. Varady for Nethaniel Puzael, his family’s cat, in 1994. . . . 
Contributor(s): Andrew Meit
Shared on ג׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ב (2011-10-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: death of a parent, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers for parents, English vernacular prayer 
By Andrew Meit, written upon the death of his mother, Sonie Meit, the 28th of Sivan 5771 –כ״ח בְּסִיוָן תשע״א. . . . 
Contributor(s): Andrew Meit
Shared on כ״ח בתשרי ה׳תשע״ז (2016-10-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: North America, suicide prevention, death of a child, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Eulogy, suicide, suicide awareness 
This eulogy by Andrew Meit was read at Temple Beit Ami in Rockville, Maryland at the funeral of Benjamin Meit. Andrew writes, “Ben would have turned 19 next week. He died from complications from depression and mental illness.” Donations in Ben’s memory may be made here. If you or anyone you know is in need of help, please call 911, or 1-800 273 8255, the national suicide prevention hotline. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yehudis Fishman
Shared on כ״ח בכסלו ה׳תשע״ד (2013-12-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: Genizah, burial, shemot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
My bones whisper that your pages and your inks will return to the trees and the plants from where they once came. They say that someday they will even come back to life with words never yet heard. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Shared on י״א באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., mourning, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Grief, Prayers as poems, neshamah shenatata bi, neshamah 
The poem, “Song of the Spirit” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident 6:7, Tishrei 5609, October 1848. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Shared on כ״ה בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: יזכור yizkor, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, Grief, burial service 
The prayer El Malé Raḥamim, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Seligman Baer and Jonah Rank
Shared on ה׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ג (2013-08-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning, Ḳaddish
Tags: 19th century C.E., English Translation, personal, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Memorial prayers, Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish, קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish, prayers of orphans, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution 
Please Lord, Sovereign of Compassion, God, Arbiter of the spirits of all flesh, Parent of Orphans and Judge of widows: God, from the source of Your holiness! May my prayer and the Torah of life that I have learned come before you on account of the soul . . . 
Contributor(s): Alan Wagman
Shared on כ״ב בניסן ה׳תשע״ג (2013-04-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Mourning, Ḳaddish
Tags: interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., rhyming translation, prayers of orphans 
This is an English language interpretation of Kaddish, intended to capture the spirit of translations/interpretations that I have seen in various sources and also to capture the sound and rhythm of the Aramaic text, including syllables which, when read simultaneously with the Aramaic, rhyme with the Aramaic. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Seril Rappaport
Shared on א׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Pesaḥ, Rosh Hashanah, Mourning, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)
Tags: תחינות tkhines, יזכור yizkor, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical yizkor 
“Tkhine of the Matriarchs for Yizkor on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Yamim Tovim” by Rebbetsin Seril Rappaport is a faithful transcription of her tkhine included in “תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול” (Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul) published in Vilna, 1874, as re-published in The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)
Shared on י״ג באב ה׳תשע״ג (2013-07-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning, Tishah b'Av
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, ירושלם Jerusalem, 58th century A.M., Al Quds, הר הבית Har haBayit, free translation, ישראל Yisrael, Needing Vocalization 
During the time before there was a State of Israel, those ideals in our hearts which we tried to practice and which we wanted others to practice, seemed not achievable where we were because, we felt we had no influence over our world where we were. And so, the longing for our homeland was tied into the longing for our dreams and our vision. Now that the state of Israel is with us, our dreams and our visions still remain distant from our lives and therefore when we say the Tisha B’av prayers we need to remind ourselves of the distance between that which we would have in this world and that which we do have. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning, Yom Kippur
Tags: 19th century C.E., יזכור yizkor, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical yizkor, prayers of orphans 
A prayer for one’s parent or parents on Yom Kippur during Yizkor. . . . 
Contributor(s): Nina Jane Mizrahi
Shared on ט׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ו (2015-09-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: יזכור yizkor, יזכור, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
Rabbi Mizrahi’s instructions for remembering were first published on her website, here. . . .
Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Shared on י״ד בניסן ה׳תשע״א (2011-04-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Mourning, Ḳaddish
Tags: Renewal, Aleph, Abrahamic, ecumenical prayers, interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish, קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish
Jews use the Kaddish to mourn the dead, though it has in it only one word — “nechamata,” consolations – which hints at mourning. And this word itself is used in a puzzling way, once we look at it with care. As we will see below, it may be especially appropriate in time of war. The interpretive English translation below may also be appropriate for prayers of mourning and hope in wartime by other spiritual and religious communities. In this version, changes in the traditional last line of the Hebrew text specifically include not only peace for the people Israel (as in the traditional version) but also for the children of Abraham and Hagar through Ishmael (Arabs and Muslims) and for all the life-forms who dwell upon this planet. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Jacob Chatinover (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ז׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: Memorial prayers, Jewish burial, tombstones, Pressburg, Poszony, Bratislava, Needing citation references, Needing Attribution 
A prayer for unveiling a tombstone, according to the custom of the Jews of Pressburg. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Shared on ט״ו באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., mourning, sleep, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Grief, Prayers as poems 
The poem, “The Body Speaking to the Soul Which Just Left It.” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was written in March 1842 and first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 2:4, Tamuz 5604, July 1844, p. 200-202. . . . |
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