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Learning, Study, and School

This is an archive of prayers generally having to do with learning — as a living experience, as preparation and acquisition of skills, and as appreciation for the subject of learning, teachers, schools, and fellow learners.

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Prière après l’instruction | A Child’s Prayer After School, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer for children after school. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's education, children's prayers, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, school, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Prière avant l’instruction | A Child’s Prayer Before School, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer for children before school. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's education, children's prayers, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, school, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Almighty God! We Pray to Thee – a “School Hymn” by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1856)

“Almighty God! we pray to Thee,” by Rabbi Moritz Mayer, published in 1856, appears under the subject “School Hymns” as Hymn 210 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), p. 209. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABABCC rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s): Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Oh! Fill our Hearts, Almighty King! – a “School Hymn” (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1856)

“Oh! fill our hearts, Almighty King” by an unknown author, published in 1856, appears under the subject “School Hymns” as Hymn 208 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), p. 208. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s): Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

With Grateful Hearts of Song and Praise, a “School Hymn” by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1856)

“With grateful hearts of song and praise” by Rabbi Moritz Mayer, published in 1856, appears under the subject “School Hymns” as Hymn 209 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), pp. 208-209. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., AABB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s): Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Moritz Mayer 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. . . .

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

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

Contributor(s): Benjamin Szold and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

School-hymn, by Felix Adler (1868)

“School-hymn” is a hymn written by Felix Adler and published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn №36, p. 70. We have found this hymn published in A Guide to Instruction in the Israelitsh Religion (Samuel Adler, trans. M. Mayer, Temple Emanu-El, 1864, 4th printing 1868). The hymn, numbered “36” is appended from another unattributed work as it appears in the 1871 Temple Emanu-El hymnal. So, tentatively, we may date this hymn to 1868, although it may likely have been authored earlier, along with the other hymns later attributed in 1871 by Rabbi James K. Gutheim to Felix Adler. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

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

Contributor(s): Felix Adler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Task of the Ages, a hymn by Felix Adler (1888)

“Task of the Ages” is a short hymn by Felix Adler, first published in The Ethical Record vol. 1, no. 1. (April 1888), sheet music pages 2-3. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, Ethical Humanism, hymns, universalist

Contributor(s): Felix Adler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] on Leaving School and Beginning Apprenticeship, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

“On Leaving School and Beginning Apprenticeship” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 21-22. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, teḥinot in English, תחינות teḥinot, West Central Girls' Club

Contributor(s): Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Morning Song, a hymn by Felix Adler (1897)

“Morning Song [splendor of the morning sunlight]” is a hymn by Felix Adler, published in The Sabbath School Hymnal, a collection of songs, services and responses for Jewish Sabbath schools, and homes (4th rev. ed., 1897), hymn no. 23. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's education, children's prayers, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Ethical Humanism, hymns, universalist

Contributor(s): Felix Adler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

🆕 Jadą Chassidim do Góry (יאַדוֹם חֲסִידִים דוֹ גוּרִי) | The Ḥassidim are going to Ger (translated by Yaakov Wasilewicz)

This is the traveling song Gerer Chassidim would sing on their way to see the Gerrer Rebbe in Góra Kalwaria, Poland before World War Ⅱ. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Travel

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Translation, Ḥasidic, Polish vernacular prayer, trave, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Yaakov Wasilewicz (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

א תחנה פאר א מוטער װאס פירט איהר קינד דעם ערשׁטען מאל אין חדר | Tkhine for a Mother Who Leads their Child for the First Time to Religious School (1910)

“Tkine for a Mother Who Leads Her Child to Kheyder” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in Rokhl m’vakoh al boneho (Raḥel Weeps for her Children), Vilna, 1910. I have transcribed it without any changes from 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. Please offer a translation of this tkhine in the comments. . . .

Categories: Child care, Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Areinfirenish, children, first experiences, Jewish Women's Prayers, kheyder, Needing Attribution, Needing Source Images, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, religious school, school, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תחנה פאר אמוטער װאס פירט אקינד אין חדר | Tkhine for a Mother Leading their Child to Religious School (1910)

Categories: Child care, Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children, Jewish Women's Prayers, kheyder, Needing Attribution, Needing Source Images, religious school, school, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer for Our Teachers, by Rabbi Albert G. Baum (ca. 1930s)

“A Prayer for Our Teachers” by Rabbi Albert G. Baum was written sometime before 1962. Unfortunately, no more information was provided by Rabbi David Bial in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 64, from where this prayer was transcribed. Possibly, the prayer was written while Baum served as principal of the Park Avenue Synagogue Hebrew School in the late 1920s or as rabbi for Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim in Alexandria, Louisiana during the 1930s. If you know more, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers for educators

Contributor(s): Albert G. Baum and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

ברכה למדרש החכמה | Prayer for the University [of Oxford] (22 June 1931)

A “Prayer for the University” found in the Seder ha-Tefilah (Order of Service) arranged by the Jewish community of Oxford, England in 1931 at a special event celebrating the centenary of the scholar and librarian at the Bodleian Library, Dr. Adolf Neubauer (1831-1907). . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School

Tags: יקום פורקן yequm purqan, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Aramaic, British Jewry, Oxford

Contributor(s): Herbert Loewe and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] on Education Week, by Rabbi Norman M. Goldburg (24 April 1933)

“On Education Week” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 24 April 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, pp. 77-78. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Education Week, California State Legislature, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, United States

Contributor(s): Norman Michael Goldburg and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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