This prayer, written for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London in the mid-19th century, is stated by the bar mitsvah prior to his ‘aliya blessing over the Torah. In the early 2010s, Rabbi Israel Elia ז״ל introduced the custom that a bat mitsvah recites a feminine form (with words marked in blue replaced by words marked in red) prior to her derasha. (In egalitarian communities where a bat mitsvah recieves an ‘aliyah as well, she may recite it prior to the ‘aliya blessing as well.)

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Before the Aliyot, prayers for adolescents, Spanish-Portuguese, Western Sefaradim

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Montagu and Benjamin Artom

Am Geburtsfeste des Vaters | On one’s Father’s Birthday, by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1867)

“[Gebete] Am Geburtsfeste des Vaters” was written by Rabbi Benjamin Szold and included in his הגיון לב Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867), page 251.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, German vernacular prayer, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Benjamin Szold and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Am eigenen Geburtstage | On one’s own Birthday, by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1867)

“[Gebete] Am eigenen Geburtstage” was written by Rabbi Benjamin Szold and included in his הגיון לב Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867), page 253.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Benjamin Szold and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Am Geburtstage des Lehrers | On one’s Teacher’s Birthday, by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1867)

“[Gebete] Am Geburtstage des Lehrers” was written by Rabbi Benjamin Szold and included in his הגיון לב Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867), pp. 252-253.

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Learning, Study, and School, Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, German vernacular prayer, Teacher, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Benjamin Szold and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Am Geburtstage der Mutter | On one’s Mother’s Birthday, by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1867)

“[Gebete] Am Geburtstage der Mutter” was written by Rabbi Benjamin Szold and included in his הגיון לב Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867), page 252.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, German vernacular prayer, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Benjamin Szold and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Confirmation (Father, see Thy suppliant children), a hymn for a Confirmation ritual by Felix Adler (1868)

“Confirmation (Father, see thy suppliant children)” is a hymn written by Felix Adler and published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn №34, p. 68. We have tentatively dated this hymn to 1868, since another hymn by Adler (“School-hymn, no. 36”) can be found appended from another unattributed work in A Guide to Instruction in the Israelitsh Religion (Samuel Adler, trans. M. Mayer, Temple Emanu-El, 1864, 4th printing 1868).

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., confirmation, English vernacular prayer, hymns

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Felix Adler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Confirmation, by Rabbi Dr. Max Lilienthal (20 April 1881)

This “Prayer for Confirmation” was offered by Rabbi Dr. Max Lilienthal on Shavuot (20 April 1881), a manuscript copy of which it found its way into the collection of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. Many thanks to the Jewish Women’s Archive for providing a copy of the manuscript through their website.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., confirmation, English vernacular prayer

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Max Lilienthal and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Public Repetition of the Shaḥarit Amidah on Confirmation Day, by Rabbi Max Landsberg (1884)

This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit amidah for a Confirmation Day as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with adaptations of the traditional blessings found on pp. 46-47.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Public Amidah

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Max Landsberg

A Child’s Prayer on its Parent’s Birthday, by Frederick de Sola Mendes (1887)

“A Child’s Prayer on its Parent’s Birthday” was written by Frederick de Sola Mendes and published in the anthology, The Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887), pages 130-131.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., birthday prayers, children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, prayers on behalf of parents

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Frederick de Sola Mendes and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Child’s Prayer on its Birthday, by Frederick de Sola Mendes (1887)

“A Child’s Prayer on its Birthday” was written by Frederick de Sola Mendes and published in the anthology, The Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887), page 130.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., birthday prayers, children's prayers, English vernacular prayer

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Frederick de Sola Mendes and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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