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Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

This is an archive of prayers generally having to do with making a living, the workplace, and finding fulfillment in one’s labor.

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After Shaḥarit: Abiding Advice for Daily Living, by Eliyahu Carmi (1767)

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. . . .

Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Addenda

Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Arba Kehillot, Avignon, Carpentras, Cavaillon, French Jewry, Lisle, Nusaḥ Comtat Venaissin, Post-prayer supplements, workdays

Contributor(s): Abe Katz (translation)

Gebet eines Menschen der sich durch den Handel nährt | Prayer of a person who feeds themself through trade, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Gebet eines Menschen der sich durch den Handel nährt” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №63 on pp. 90-91. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №65 on pp. 113-114. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №68 on pp. 118-119. The prayer is thematically closely related to the Birkat haMazon. . . .

Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Addenda

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., ברכת המזון birkat hamazon, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, parnasah, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Morning Prayer [before Work], by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

“Morning Prayer” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 7-8. . . .

Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Addenda

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical modeh ani, teḥinot in English, תחינות teḥinot, West Central Girls' Club

Contributor(s): Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

For the Day’s Round in Camp, a prayer for soldiers by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman adapted by Rabbi Morris Lazaron (1918)

“[Prayer] for the Day’s Round in camp,” a variation of a prayer by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman (1860-1929), is found adapted (without Christian god-language) by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron in his World War Ⅰ era prayerbook, Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors (1918), on pages 24-25. The original version of the prayer was first published in The Service Song Book (Young Men’s Christian Associations, 1917), pp. 82-83 in the abridged edition. . . .

Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Addenda

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, military, מוסר mussar, prayers of military chaplains, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Morris Samuel Lazaron, Howard Allen Bridgman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "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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