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Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories:  Travel | Tags:  North America, ascent, the Chariot, tefilat haderekh, starship, sic itur ad astra, space travel, haMerkavah, Leonard Nimoy z"l, where no earthling has gone before, spaceship Earth, bli-mah, traveling without moving, Jacob's Ladder, spaceship, 24th century C.E., 62nd century A.M. 
A prayer, inspired by Tefilat haDerekh and other traditional liturgical texts, for a Jew who, at some future point, would be about to go forth on a starship. Doesn’t include a chatimah so as not to be a brakhah levatalah, in the case that starships are (chas v’shalom) never invented. . . . Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Travel, Separation | Tags: North America, children, students, parents, teḥinot, supplications, college, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
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) . . . Contributor(s): David Seidenberg, neohasid.org and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Justice and Peace, Travel, Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Tags: teḥinot, tefilat haderekh 
In this Tefilat haDerekh (the prayer for travel), I’ve made a synthesis of Ashkenazi and Sefardi nusaḥ. Even though the translation is pretty close to literal in most places, it comes across as an extraordinary and activist prayer for peace. So I think of this prayer not just as a prayer for the beginning a physical journey, but for any spiritual journey, and especially for any campaign or action for justice and peace that a person or group might undertake. When applied to activism, the “enmity and ambush and theft and predation” we ask to be rescued from could also be interpreted as hatred, deceit, jealousy, and aggression, i.e., the kinds of feelings that cause people to work against each other, even within an organization, instead of working together. I first used this version of the prayer at the beginning of a tour of Israel and Palestine focused on the human rights and non-violent resistance, when the group passed through the first checkpoint of the trip. . . . Contributor(s): Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi and Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
Categories: Travel | Tags: transit, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cincinnati, tefilat haderekh, bicyclists, velocipede, bicycles, bikes, prayers for the road 
May it be Your will, our God That You lead us toward peace; that You enable us to ride in safety; that You lead us with blessing. Save us from all accidents and unstable wheels, from a dangerous driver and a bounding chariot.[ref]after Nahum 3:2[/ref] Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Travel | Tags: 20th century C.E., flying, ascent, air, 58th century A.M., airplane travel, prayer for the road, prayer for the way, tefilat haderekh, Needing Attribution 
If I ascend up into the heavens, you are there. If I take wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there would your hand lead me, and your right hand would hold me. And may it be your will, our father in heaven, that you guard us from storm and tempest and grief. And may you bring forth from your storehouses a propitious wind to carry our plane, and may you sustain and preserve those who fly it, that they neither weaken nor falter, and may we reach our destination alive and well, without any trouble and injury. O keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be abashed, for I have taken refuge in you. But we will bless Yah from this time forth and for ever, Halleluyah. . . . 
Yehi Ratzon Milfanecha – May it be Your will, Eternal One, God of our ancestors, that we journey toward peace, that our footsteps be guided towards peace, and that we reach our desired destinations for life, gladness, and peace. May we be protected from every obstacle along the way, and from all manner of challenge the world endures. May there be blessing in the works of our hands, and may we be granted peace, kindness, and mercy in the eyes of all who see us. May our prayer be heard, for You are the One who hears and holds all prayer. Baruch Atah Adonai, Shomei’ah Tefilah. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who hears prayer. . . . Contributor(s): Yakov Green
Categories: Travel | Tags: Israel, Jerusalem, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayer for the road, prayer for the way, tefilat haderekh, Beit Midrash Elul, choosing directions 
Yakov Green shares a short kavvanah (intention, meditation) which he wrote in Hebrew one morning at Beit Midrash Elul in Jerusalem. He later translated it into English. תפילת דרך משולשת | Triple Prayer for the Road . . . Contributor(s): Uri DeYoung
Categories: Travel, Weekday siddur, Birkonim (Bentchers), Minḥah, Birkat haMazon | Tags: Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael, Machon Shilo 
This is a compact siddur for weekday Minḥa according to Nusaḥ Ereṣ Yisrael, as derived from rulings of the Jerusalem Talmud, fragments found in the Cairo Geniza and other historical documents. This siddur also includes Birkat HaMazon (Grace After Meals) and Tefillat HaDerekh (Travelers’ Prayer). Modern additions to the ancient prayers include special verses for Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Liberation Day) and Yom HaAṣmaut (Israeli Independence Day), additions which keep the nusaḥ at once uniquely ancient, yet thoroughly connected to our modern reality here in the Land Of Israel. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories: Travel | Tags: 19th century C.E., still small voice, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Walking with the Divine, Derekh Hashem, Physical translation, Angelification, Angelic Nature, Eliyahu HaNavi, Psychopomp, Merkavah, the Chariot, Distress, Prayers as poems 
The poem, “Elijah” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident 6:7, Kislev 5610, December 1849, p. 455-457. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories: Travel | Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Derekh Hashem, divine light, Pokeaḥ Ivrim, dveikut, Prayers as poems 
The poem, “God Our Light” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 3:8, Marḥeshvan 5606, November 1845, p.379-380. . . . |
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