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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

This is an archive of prayers and related resources for those celebrating a bnei mitsvah or other birthday celebration.

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Birthday Prayer, by Julia M. Cohen (1907)

This “Birthday Prayer” is found in Julia M. Cohen’s The children’s Psalm-book, a selection of Psalms with explanatory comments, together with a prayer-book for home use in Jewish families (1907), pp. 304-305. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Julia Matilda Waley Cohen and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שֶׁהֶחֱיָֽנוּ | Sheheḥiyanu, a rhyming translation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

This translation of the blessing sheheḥiyanu was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published under the title “Blessing for Rosh-Hashanah” in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 11. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., appreciation, blessings, rhyming translation, שהחינו shehiyanu

Contributor(s): Jessie Ethel Sampter and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

On the Decalogue, life wisdom for a Bnei Mitsvah by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (ca. 1920s)

This is a restatement of the Decalogue offered as life wisdom by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan for his daughters, sometime in the 1920s, possibly as early as 1922 at the Bat Mitsvah of his oldest daughter Judith. The document was found by Mel Scult and shared by him from his Mordecai Kaplan Discussion Group on Facebook. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, Addenda

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., civil declarations and charters, Decalogue, declarations, מוסר mussar

Contributor(s): Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Hymn for Shaḇuoth (Father, See Thy Children) — from a Confirmation hymn by Felix Adler (1868) adapted by Angie Irma Cohon (1921)

“Hymn for Shaḇuoth (Father, See Thy Children)” is based on “Confirmation (Father, see thy suppliant children)” an original hymn by Felix Adler published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn 34, p. 68. The last four lines of the hymn have been amended and replaced with “Till our lives shall bud and blossom…” by Angie Irma Cohon, for use on Shavuot. This version was published in her תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 19. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, Shavuot

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., confirmation, hymns

Contributor(s): Angie Irma Cohon, Felix Adler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מזמור לתודה לכבוד משה איש האלהים | A Thanksgiving in Commemoration of Moses Maimonides, an octocentennial prayer by Ḥakham Shem Tov Gaguine (Bevis Marks Synagogue, 27 May 1935)

“A Thanksgiving in Commemoration of Moses Maimonides” with its accompanying Hashkabah is found in the Service of Praise and Thanksgiving to Commemorate the 800th Anniversary of the Birth of Moses Maimonides prepared by Bevis Marks Synagogue in London on 27 May 1935. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Maimonides, Moshe ben Maimon, Western Sepharadim

Contributor(s): Shem Tov Gaguine and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מי שברך לתקופת יום הולדת | Mi sheBerakh on behalf of one celebrating a birthday, by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (1945)

“Prayer in behalf of one celebrating a birthday,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 494-497 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, During the Aliyot, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Old Age

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., ageing, birthday prayers, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s): Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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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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