A prayer for workers and worker needs amid the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. . . .
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Contributor(s): Michael Rothbaum and New England Jewish Labor Committee
Shared on ב׳ בניסן ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags:  21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, workers' rights, coronavirus, 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19 coronavirus, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, 2020 coronavirus pandemic
Contributor(s): Stephen Belsky
Shared on ג׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, International Workers' Day (May 1st), Labor Day (1st Monday in September)
Tags: North America, workers, artisans, crafters, labor, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Michigan 
A worker’s prayer by Rabbi Stephen Belsky, dedicated to Noam Ezra ben haRav Moshe z”l. . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
Shared on כ״א במרחשון ה׳תשע״ג (2012-11-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: health, self-care, שמירת הגוף shmirat haguf, North America, workers, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, working 
A holistic prayer for health in work. . . . 
Contributor(s): Adina Allen
Shared on ט׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ח (2017-10-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: blessings, creativity, ברכות brakhot, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Constructivism, San Francisco 
“A Blessing for Creating” comes by way of David A.M. Wilensky (with approval by the blessing’s author, Rabbi Adina Allen) who shared a photo on Facebook of a posterboard on which the blessing was written. The poster was made for the first ever Kabbalat Shabbat organized by the Jewish Studio Project, whose mission is “to activate creativity in individuals and communities to reclaim Jewish values, make meaning in our lives and restore hope to the world.” Vocalization added by Aharon Varady. . . . 
Contributor(s): Alan Jay Sufrin
Shared on ז׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ג (2013-03-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: preparation, פיוטים piyyutim, public performance, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., performing artists, working, Needing Translation (into English), מודים Modim 
This piyut (liturgical poem) arose after a very meaningful performance of mine in the summer of 2000. It was such a powerful experience that I was moved to say a prayer of thanks to G-d for the opportunity to perform my songs for audiences – but found no such prayer in existence. So I wrote this one. It took about a year to complete and I’ve been saying it backstage right before my performances, and sometimes before recording sessions, since then. . . . 
Contributor(s): Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Shared on כ״ה בתשרי ה׳תשע״ח (2017-10-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: Gratitude, ירושלם Jerusalem, workers, 21st century C.E., פתיחות Petiḥot, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, Sunday, English vernacular prayer, Post-Ḥag, After Sukkot, kivun, First day of the week, God as co-worker, ישראל Yisrael, מודים Modim 
Chaya Kaplan-Lester’s “Prayer for – Finally – Getting Back to WORK” was first published on her Facebook page, here. The Hebrew word Todah תודה, means grateful. The English word ‘ta-da!’ is an onomatopoetic form of a horn (Cf. 1913 Sphinx July 98/1): “Coming front in utter disgust, he [sc. a conjuror] tells them [sc. the orchestra] that that won’t do, that he wants something like ‘tadaa!’ from all of them. They seem to understand, so he goes off again. On his reappearance, however, he is met with a loud tumult, as all the orchestra shout out in unison the word ‘tadaa!’” (Oxford English Dictionary). . . . 
Contributor(s): Azriel
Shared on ד׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״א (2011-03-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: weekdays, avodah, parnasah, workdays, workers, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., working, work-life balance 
May it be Your will, O Lord my God and God of my ancestors, to deliver me this day, and every day, from cranky customers and from cowardly managers; and if I must deal with them, grant me the patience and the wits to make things work. Grant me also an easy temper with my daughter, and let me not lose sight of her preciousness for one instant. And let me devote myself to my duties to my (wife/husband, and always keep her happiness in mind, and show her often that I love her. For all this, I ask You to help me, because I cannot do it alone. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Hoffman (translation) and Limor Rubin
Shared on י״א בשבט ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, universalist prayers, צדקה tsedaqah 
A prayer of intention before the meeting of the board of a philanthropic organization determining the recipients of the largess in their trust. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on כ״ח בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, American Jewry of the United States, prayers for dedications and commissioning, New Jersey, capitalism, Post–World War II economic expansion, S.S. Kresge 
A prayer offered at the opening of a department store during the post-WWII economic expansion in the United States. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on כ״ט בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, retirement 
A prayer composed for a ceremony honoring the tenure of Charles Henry Martens, mayor of East Orange, New Jersey on his retirement from three decades of civic service. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on י״ח באלול ה׳תשע״ט (2019-09-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 20th century C.E., ecumenical prayers, United States, Nursing, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, commencement 
A prayer for a Nurse’s Commencement ceremony at Beth Israel Hospital on 19 September 1951. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on כ״ט בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers of Jewish Educators, commencement 
A prayer offered at a ceremony honoring the graduated of the New Jersey State Teachers’ College in Newark in 1951. . . . 
Contributor(s): the Aronin Family, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Ben Aronin
Shared on כ״א בשבט ה׳תשע״ט (2019-01-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 20th century C.E., Gratitude, first person, 58th century A.M., Distress, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Chicago, thanksgiving, depression, מודים Modim 
The poem, “Psalm of Gratitude” by the Jewish poet and educator, Ben Aronin. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan
Shared on ג׳ באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-07-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Bedtime Shema, International Workers' Day (May 1st)
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Psalms 4, English vernacular prayer, Amits Koaḥ, lonely man of faith, social anxiety, yetser hara, loneliness, ayin hara, lashon hara, apotropaic prayers of protection 
“Courage to Withstand the Ridicule of the Worldly,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 433-4 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945). . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Simon Glazer
Shared on כ״ח בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-25) — under the following terms: Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 20th century C.E., parnasah, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, North American Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Great Depression in the United States 
A prayer for lifegiving sustenance. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morrison David Bial and Albert Einstein
Shared on ז׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-02-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Taḥanun, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, International Workers' Day (May 1st)
Tags: 20th century C.E., democracy, פתיחות Petiḥot, 57th century A.M., anti-fascist, חתימות Ḥatimot, cosmic religion, determinism 
An excerpt of an 1930 essay by Albert Einstein set as a prayer supplement by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in 1962. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Miri Landau (translation) and Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi
Shared on י״ג בשבט ה׳תשע״ח (2018-01-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Planting, Ḥag haNətiōt (Tu biShvat)
Tags: 20th century C.E., farming, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 57th century A.M., Yemenite Jewry, Jewish Farming, Problematic prayers, Prayers for Planting, Early Religious Zionist, Yemenite Aliyah, Shami 
A kavvanah for focusing one’s intention before working with the soil of Erets Yisrael. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron
Shared on י׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, the invisible hand 
A prayer for parnassah (livelihood) for someone impoverished or in danger of poverty. . . . 
Contributor(s): Abe Katz (translation)
Shared on ח׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ג (2012-09-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Ḥatimot
Tags: Nusaḥ Comtat Venaissin, workdays, 56th century A.M., French Jewry, 18th Century C.E., Arba Kehillot, Carpentras, Avignon, Lisle, Cavaillon, Post-prayer supplements 
In Avignon, France, in 1767, Eliyahu Karmi (Elijah Crémieux) compiled a siddur preserving the nusaḥ of the Comtat Venaissin titled the סדר התמיד (Seder HaTamid). Just after the section for תפלת שחרית (the morning prayers), Karmi provides the following advice for how to organize one’s workday: . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Gele bat Moshe
Shared on כ״א בתמוז ה׳תשע״ז (2017-07-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: תחינות tkhines, redemption, 55th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., colophon, Halle, Brandenburg-Prussia, children's prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer 
This is a faithful transcription of the prayer of Gele (Gella), daughter of the printer Moshe, as found at the end of Tfile LeMoshe (2nd ed., Halle, Germany, 1710), a prayerbook Gele typeset when she was only 11-years-old. This prayerbook is rare owing to the destruction of the press following the incarceration of Gele’s father for publishing a prayerbook containing the prayer “Aleinu,” which had been forbidden by royal decree.[foot]Kathryn Hellerstein in in A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 (2014, Stanford University Press).[/foot] The translation provided here was made by Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein as found in A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 (2014, Stanford University Press), p. 63-4. The layout of Gele’s prayer follows that of Ezra Korman from his anthology of Jewish women’s poetry, Yiddishe Dikhterins, also the source of the page image provided. If you know the location of a copy or digital scan of this siddur, please contact us. . . . |
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