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Homes & Community Centers

This is an archive of prayers for the wellbeing of homes, community centers, and other spaces proving shelter, hospitality, and recreation.

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[Prayer] for home, by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (1916)

Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayer “For Home” was first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, pages 95-96.

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Marriage, Homes & Community Centers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Holy Places (CCAR 1923)

“Holy Places” is the thirty-sixth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 121-123.

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Homes & Community Centers, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., dedications and consecrations, English vernacular prayer, synagogue consecration, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

God Our Eternal Home (CCAR 1923)

“God Our Eternal Home” is the forty-fourth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 146-148.

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Homes & Community Centers, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alienation, עבודה זרה avodah zarah, בצלם אלהים btselem Elohim, English vernacular prayer, interconnectedness, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

A Prayer at the Ceremony of Breaking Ground for the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak (1924)

“A Prayer at the Ceremony of Breaking Ground for the Building of a Synagogue” was written and delivered by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak on 19 October 1924, at the breaking of ground for the building of the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center. The prayer was first published in Rabbi Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 101-102.

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Homes & Community Centers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Conservative Jewry, dedications and consecrations, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Jacob Bosniak and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer at the Ceremony of the Corner Stone Laying for the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak (1925)

“A Prayer at the Ceremony of the Corner Stone Laying of a Synagogue” was written and delivered by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak on 19 April 1925, at the laying of the cornerstone of the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center. The prayer was first published in Rabbi Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 103-104.

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Homes & Community Centers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Conservative Jewry, dedications and consecrations, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Jacob Bosniak and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer at the Dedication Ceremony for the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak (1926)

“Dedication of a Synagogue” was written and delivered by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak on 23 October 1926, at the dedication of the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center. The prayer was first published in Rabbi Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 106-107.

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Homes & Community Centers

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Conservative Jewry, dedications and consecrations, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Jacob Bosniak and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer at [the] Dedication of a Community Center (CCAR 1928)

This “Prayer at [the] Dedication of a Community Center” is included in CCAR’s Rabbi’s Manual (1928), p. 117.

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Homes & Community Centers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., dedications and consecrations, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Family Ceremony for the Consecration of a New Home (CCAR 1951)

“Family Ceremony for the Consecration of a New Home” is the first ritual ceremony found in the “Family Worship” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), pp. 7-11.

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Homes & Community Centers

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, dedications and consecrations, English vernacular prayer, Post–World War II economic expansion

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Prayer for Dedication of Hospital Chapel, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“Prayer for Dedication of Hospital Chapel” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 68, from where this prayer was transcribed. No contextual information was provided with the prayer, so we cannot say when the prayer was offered or even for which hospital chapel it was dedicated. If you know, please leave a comment or contact us.

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Homes & Community Centers, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., dedications and consecrations, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for a Synagogue Consecration, by Lilian Helen Montagu

This “Synagogue Consecration Prayer ” by the Hon. Lily H. Montagu (1873-1963) was included by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 50. Although the context is not provided by Rabbi Bial, we would like to imagine that the consecration was for the establishment of the West Central Liberal Jewish Synagogue in 1928 (destroyed by Nazi German bombardment of London in 1941).

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Homes & Community Centers

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, dedications and consecrations, English vernacular prayer, synagogue consecration

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Benediction at the Dedication of a Synagogue in the Tri-Faith Chapels Plaza of JFK Airport by Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz (18 December 1966)

This is Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz’s benediction at the dedication of a “Tri-Faith Chapel Plaza” at JFK Airport terminal in Jamaica-Queens, New York on 18 December 1966, representing the New York Board of Rabbis.

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Homes & Community Centers

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., dedications and consecrations

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Israel Mowshowitz

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