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

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

On Taking a Journey (CCAR 1951)

“On Taking a Journey” is the first prayer in the “Personal Prayers for Special Occasions” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 41.

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Travel

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, protection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

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

Prayer After Passing Through Danger (CCAR 1951)

“Prayer After Passing Through Danger” is the second prayer in the “Personal Prayers for Special Occasions” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 42.

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Travel

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., ברכת הגומל birkat hagomel, English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

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

תְּפִלַּת הַדֶּרֶךְ לְצַנְחָן | Traveler’s Prayer of a Paratrooper, by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (IDF, 1963)

“Tefilat haDerekh l’Tsanḥan,” a prayer by Rabbi Shlomo Goren for missions of paratroopers in the service of the IDF was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal (p. 75 in the 1963 printing).

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Travel, Military Personnel & Veterans

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., air travel, צה״ל IDF, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh

Contributor(s):

Abe Katz (translation), Shlomo Goren, Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלַּת הַדֶּרֶךְ לְטַיָּס | Traveler’s Prayer of a Fighter Pilot, by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (IDF, 1963)

“Tefilat haDerekh l’Tayas,” a prayer for sorties by military aviators in the service of the IDF by Rabbi Shlomo Goren was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal.

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Travel, Military Personnel & Veterans

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., air travel, צה״ל IDF, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh

Contributor(s):

Abe Katz (translation), Shlomo Goren, Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלַּת הַדֶּרֶךְ לְצֶוֶת הַצּוֹלְלוֹת | Traveler’s Prayer for a Submarine Crew, by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (IDF, 1963)

“Tefilat haDerekh l’Tsevet haTsolelot,” a prayer by Rabbi Shlomo Goren for missions of submariners in the service of the IDF was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal (p. 76 in the 1963 printing).

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Travel, Military Personnel & Veterans

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., צה״ל IDF, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, ocean, prayers on ships, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh

Contributor(s):

Abe Katz (translation), Shlomo Goren, Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפילת הדרך | The Traveler’s Prayer (with a Supplement for Airplane Travel)

A traditional tefilat haderekh supplemented by a 20th century prayer for airplane travel.

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Travel

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., air, air travel, ascent, flying, Needing Attribution, prayers for the road, prayers for the way, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

“Just Walk Beside Me” (לֵךְ פָּשׁוּט לְצִדִּי | امشي بجانبي | נאָר גיין לעבן מיר), lines from an unknown author circulating in 1970; Jewish adaptation with translations in Aramaic, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic

Variations of the original three lines culminating with “…walk beside me…” first appear in high school yearbooks beginning in 1970. The earliest recorded mention we could find was in The Northern Light, the 1970 yearbook of North Attleboro High School, Massachusetts. In the Jewish world of the early to mid-1970s, a young Moshe Tanenbaum began transmitting the lines at Jewish summer camps. In 1979, as Uncle Moishy, Tanenbaum published a recording of the song under the title “v’Ohavta” (track A4 on The Adventures of Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men, volume 2).

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Travel, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, Additional Preparatory Prayers,

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., political and religious anarchism, Arabic translation, Aramaic translation, children's education, Hebrew translation, love your fellow as yourself, Pedagogical songs, Universal Peace, universalist, universalist prayers, Yiddish translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Moshe Tanenbaum, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

תפילת דרך משולשת | A Kavvanah for Crossroads: Triple Prayer for the Road, by Yakov Green

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

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Beit Midrash Elul, choosing directions, ירושלם Jerusalem, prayers for the road, prayers for the way, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Yakov Green

A Prayer for Travel, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

A traveler’s prayer in English, adapted from the traditional formula vt Rabbi Menachem Creditor.

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, journey, traveler

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

תְּפִלַּת הַדֶּרֶךְ לְרוֹכְבִים | A Traveler’s Prayer for Bicycle Riders, by Rabbis Rachel and Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi

A tefilat haderekh for those traveling via bicycle.

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., bicycles, bicyclists, bikes, Cincinnati, prayers for the road, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, transit, velocipede

Contributor(s):

Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi and Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D.

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

A prayer for students studying-abroad in Israel.

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Learning, Study, and School, Travel

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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)

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Learning, Study, and School, Travel, Separation

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

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תפילת הדרך | Tefilat haDerekh (Traveler’s Prayer), by Rabbi Tamar Duvdevani

A prayer for safe travel.

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, Needing Translation (into English), תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh

Contributor(s):

Tamar Duvdevani

תפילת הדרך | Tefilat haDerekh (Traveler’s Prayer), by Rabbi Michal Ratner Ken-tor

A prayer for safe travel.

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, Needing Translation (into English), תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh

Contributor(s):

Michal Ratner Ken-tor

A Man of Value, by Debra Cash

This version of Eyshet Ḥayil replaces valor with value, and while it speaks of man in terms of family, community, and the natural world, it is not heteronormative.

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Travel, Seudat Leil Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, role models

Contributor(s):

Debra Cash

O Mother of Medicine, a kavvanah before a healing journey by Baruch Jean Thaler

“O Mother of Medicine” is an original prayer of intention by Baruch Jean Thaler, for use before a healing journey with the aid of entheogenic, psychedelic medicine.

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Travel, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, entheogenic and psychedelic use, כוונות kavvanot, wards against spiritual narcissism

Contributor(s):

Baruch Jean Thaler

תחנה פֿאַר צוריקקערן זיך נאָך דורות צו המקום | A Tkhine for Returning to a Place After Generations, by Maia Brown

A tkhine written to return to an ancestral place for the first time — especially diaspora homes that hold lineages of rich life as well as histories of flight and genocide.

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Ancestors, cemetery prayers, return, survival, תחינות teḥinot, the Holocaust, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Maia Brown

Gebet für die Geflüchteten, die an der EU-Außengrenze ums Leben kamen | Prayer for the refugees who lost their lives at the EU’s external border, by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami

This prayer for refugees tragically killed en route to Europe was offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024.

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Travel

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2015 European Migrant Crisis, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, hakhnasat orḥim, immigration, immigration policy, protect the refugee, refugees, welcome the immigrant

Contributor(s):

Lior Bar-Ami and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

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.

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Learning, Study, and School, Travel

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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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