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An archive of prayers for the wellbeing of travelers, or perhaps more broadly, on the theme of travel by different means between coordinates, states of awareness, and states of existence.

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תהלים כ״ג | Psalms 23, translation by Shim’on Menachem, melody by Shir Meira Feit

Listen to a recording of Psalm 23 chanted to an Indian-inspired melody.

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מזמור Mizmor, תהלים Psalms, Psalms 23

Contributor(s):

Shim'on Menachem, David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and Shir Meira Feit

תהלים כ״ג | Psalms 23, a mizmor by David translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi

A paraliturgical translation of Psalms 23 in English, set side-by-side with the Masoretic Hebrew.

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Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Travel, Se'udah haShlishit

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, מזמור Mizmor, Psalms 23

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and David ben Yishai (traditional attribution)

תפילת הדרך | Tefilat haDerekh, a traveler’s prayer for safety and peace (trans. Rabbi David Seidenberg, neohasid·org)

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.

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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Travel, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

David Seidenberg (translation), Neohasid·org and Unknown

כשיוצא אדם בלילה | When a person goes out at night: an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.)

An apotropaic prayer of protection for traveling at night containing an “angels on all sides” formula.

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Bedtime Shema, Travel

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47th century A.M., 9th century C.E., Angelic Protection, Angels, apotropaic prayers of protection, danger, mid-first millennium CE, night, שכינה Shekhinah, traveler

Contributor(s):

Dan Levene, Dalia Marx, Amram ben Rav Sheshna and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

תפלת הים | Prayer for a Seaship Voyage, or During a Storm at Sea (1837)

A prayer for those traveling over water on a sea or ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., ocean, תחינות teḥinot, travel by water, traveler

Contributor(s):

Isaac Leeser (translation), David de Aaron de Sola, Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Enoch, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1846)

“Enoch” by Rosa Emma Salaman was first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 4:9, Kislev 5607/December 1846.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Nature, Angelification, Anglo Jewry, British Jewry, Derekh Hashem, English Romanticism, חנוך Ḥanokh (Enoch), Metatron, Physical translation, Prayers as poems, Walking with the Divine

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Elijah, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1849)

The poem, “Elijah” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident 6:7, Kislev 5610, December 1849, p. 455-457.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Nature, Angelification, Anglo Jewry, British Jewry, Derekh Hashem, Distress, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, English Romanticism, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, Physical translation, Prayers as poems, Psychopomp, still small voice, the Chariot, Walking with the Divine

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prière quand on se met en voyage | Prayer when you go on a journey, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer for travel.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

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

Prière pour une personne qui se met en voyage | Prayer on behalf of a person who goes on a journey, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer on behalf of a friend or relative on their travels.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

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

Gebet während eines Sturmes auf der See | Prayer during a storm on the sea, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer offered during an ocean voyage during dangerous inclement weather conditions.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, ocean, prayers on ships, storm, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, travel by water

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Nach zurückgelegter Seereise | [Prayer] after the sea voyage, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer offered after a difficult ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, מודים Modim, ocean, prayers on ships, storm, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, thanksgiving, travel by water

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet einer Mutter, deren Kind in der Fremde ist | Prayer of a mother whose child is in a foreign land, a teḥinah by Fanny Neuda (1855)

“Gebet einer Mutter, deren Kind in der Fremde ist” by Fanny Neuda was first published in her collection of teḥinot, Stunden der Andacht. ein Gebet⸗ und Erbauungs-buch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen (1855), p. 90. In the 1864 Judeo-German edition, it is found on pp. 114-116.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, protection, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet einer Frau, deren Mann auf Reisen ist | Prayer of a woman whose husband is travelling, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer of a wife whose spouse is away from home, travelling.

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Travel, Marriage

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anxiety, Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Während einer Seefahrt | [Prayer] during an ocean voyage, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer for travel offered during an ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, prayers on ships, Psalms 8, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, travel by water

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

שִׁירַת הַדֶּרֶךְ הָרְחָבָה | Song of the Open Road, by Walt Whitman (1856), Hebrew translation by Shimon Halkin (1952)

The famous poem by Walt Whitman in its original English with its Hebrew translation.

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Sefirat ha-Omer, Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., first person, invitation, Prayers as poems, prayers for the road, שפע shefa, Swedenborgian

Contributor(s):

Shimon Halkin (translation), Walt Whitman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer During a Storm at Sea, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for when traveling conditions become perilous on an ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, ocean, prayers on ships, תחינות teḥinot, travel by water

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Wife’s Prayer whose Husband is on a Journey, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling.

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Travel, Marriage

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Voice of the Lord, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (before 1883)

A poem, inspired by psalms, about a dangerous ocean storm or else the violent nature calmed during one of the nights and days of creation.

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Dangerous Storms & Floods, Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, ocean, Prayers as poems, travel by water

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Lord, Do Thou Guide Me — a prayer-poem for Shabbat parashat b’Shalaḥ by Alice Montefiore Lucas (1898)

“Lord, do Thou guide me” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅥ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat b’Shalaḥ) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 34.

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Parashat b'Shalaḥ, Shirat ha-Yam, Travel, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, traveler

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alice Montefiore Lucas

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.

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Learning, Study, and School, Travel

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

Contributor(s):

Yaakov Wasilewicz (translation) and Unknown

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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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