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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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A Blessing for Students Going to Israel to Study, by Rabbi Victor Reinstein (2016)

A prayer for students studying-abroad in Israel.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, Travel

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Victor Reinstein

תְּפִילַת הוֹלְכִים לְאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה | Prayer for Those Leaving Home for University, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

A prayer for the safety and success of those leaving home to go off to college and university. When children go off to college, parents can feel worried about the future of their children. Empty-nest syndrome can set in and spiritual guidance is often needed. This prayer uses the idioms of Biblical and siddur language to create a text for parents who worry about their children’s future as they head off on their own. It could be said 49 days after Tekufat Tammuz in the diaspora (August 28 or 29 after a leap year – approximately the time when college terms begin in the US) or on the first Saturday after Shmini Atzeret ba’aretz (approximately when college terms begin in Israel)

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, Travel, Separation

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., children, college, North America, parents, students, supplications, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Graduation Blessing, by Rabbi Dr. Laura Duhan-Kaplan (2017)

This Graduation Blessing by Rabbi Dr. Laura Duhan-Kaplan was written for Convocation 2017 at the Vancouver School of Theology.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., commencement, graduation, ברכת כוהנים Priestly Blessing, Vancouver

Contributor(s):

Laura Duhan-Kaplan

מי שבירך לתלמידים החוזרים מחופשת הקיץ | A Mi sheBerakh prayer for students returning to school after their summer break, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried

A mi sheberakh prayer by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried for the parents of students returning to school from their summer break.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, After the Aliyot

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Beit Tefillah Yisraeli, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Esteban Gottfried

מי שברך לילדים והוריהם בשלהי שנה ובפתיחה | Mi sheBeraj para los niños y sus padres en el inicio de un nuevo año escolar | Mi sheBerakh for Children and their Parents at the Commencement of the School Year, by Rabbi Hagit Sabag Yisrael (Masorti Movement in Israel)

A “mi sheberakh” blessing for children and the parents of children returning to school at the beginning of the new school year.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, After the Aliyot

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., מי שברך mi sheberakh, Parents blessing children, Prayers of Primary Caregivers

Contributor(s):

Hagit Sabag Yisrael, Sandra Kochmann (translation) and the Masorti Movement in Israel

תפילת המורה לפני פתיחת שנת הלימודים | Oración de los maestros antes del inicio del año escolar | Prayer of the teacher before commencement of the school year (Masorti Movement in Israel)

A prayer for a teacher to say or adapt as needed at the beginning of their school year.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers for students, Prayers of Teachers, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

the Masorti Movement in Israel and Ze'ev Kainan

ברכה למורים | Blessing for Teachers (Siddur Tefilat ha-Adam, Israeli Reform Movement 2020)

A prayer for teachers at the onset of the school year.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Needing Translation (into English), Prayers of Teachers, Teacher

Contributor(s):

Alona Lisitsa

ברכה לילדים | Blessing for Children [at the Onset of the School Year] (Siddur Tefilat ha-Adam, Israeli Reform Movement 2020)

A prayer for children at the onset of the school year.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., children, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, Parents blessing children, prayers concerning children, Prayers on behalf of children, Prayers for students

Contributor(s):

Louis Polisson, Alona Lisitsa and Anonymous

A Blessing for all our Children [at the Onset of the School Year], by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

A prayer for children on the first day of a new year of school.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School

Tags:

2020 coronavirus pandemic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers concerning children, Prayers for students

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

Prayer in the event of a sluggish Internet response, by Aharon Varady

A prayer for a friend who needs prompt and useful data in response to their Internet queries.

Categories:

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

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady

אַ תּפֿילה צום לייענען די נײַעס | תפילה לקריאת החדשות | A Prayer for Reading the News — by Zackary Sholem Berger

This is a prayer for reading the news, composed at the request of Rabbi Ariana Katz of Hinenu (Baltimore, Maryland). It is written in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, Travel

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., לב נשבר lev nishbar, Prayers as poems, עדות witnessing

Contributor(s):

Zackary Sholem Berger

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "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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