Shivah Asar b'Tamuz • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers public readings selected for Shivah Asar b’Tamuz שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז‎, the 17th day in the month of Tamuz in the Jewish calendar. The day commemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple, among other calamities. The day also marks the beginning of the three-week mourning period leading up to Tishah b’Av.

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Prayer for a Fast-Day, a teḥinah translated by Miriam Wertheimer (1852)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet
Tags:	19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, English Jewry, German Jewry, English vernacular prayer
	“Prayer for a fast-day” was written by an unknown author in German and translated into English by Miriam Wertheimer. We have transcribed her translation as it was published in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 19-21. . . .

כִּי בְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז | Ki b’Shivah Asar b’Tamuz, a seliḥah for the 17th of Tamuz

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Asher (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Shivah Asar b'Tamuz
Tags:	סליחות seliḥot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Alphabetic Acrostic, Needing Attribution
	A penitential piyyut for the fast of the 17th of Tammuz. . . .

תהלים ע״ט | Psalms 79, a new translation for 17 Tamuz by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), the Masoretic Text and Asaph ben Berechiah
Categories:	Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Tehilim Book 3 (Psalms 73–89)
Tags:	ירושלם Jerusalem, Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE), vengeance, Psalms 79
	A new translation of Psalms 79 for the 17th of Tamuz fast day of mourning. . . .

בַּחֹֽדֶשׁ הָֽרְבִיעִי | baḤodesh haRevi’i (In the fourth month), a ḳinah for the 17th of Tamuz attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Leeser (translation), Unknown Translator(s) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol
Categories:	Shivah Asar b'Tamuz
Tags:	סליחות seliḥot, קינות Ḳinnot, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Three Weeks of Mourning
	The seliḥah with its English translation as found in Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 6: Seder haTefilot laTaaniyot (ed. Isaac Leeser 1838) p.107-109. . . .

תפילת ”על הנסים“ חדשה ליום י״ז בתמוז | Al Hanissim for 17 Tamuz, by Rav Ḥanan Schlesinger

Contributor(s):	Ḥanan Schlesinger and Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation)
Categories:	Shivah Asar b'Tamuz
Tags:	Gratitude, על הנסים al hanissim, redemption, Religious Zionism, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ge'ulah, Y'mei Bein haMitsrim, Three Weeks of Mourning, ישראל Yisrael, Needing Vocalization, מודים Modim
	An Al Hanissim supplement for Sheva Asar b’Tamuz that acknowledges the fast day in light of the apparent achievements of the State of Israel, post-1948. . . .

תפילה לשלום ירושלים | Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem, by Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (English translation) and Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen
Categories:	Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Yom Yerushalayim (28 Iyyar)
Tags:	ירושלם Jerusalem, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Yerushalayim, religious Zionist, prayers for municipalities
	The “Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem” by the late chief rabbi of Ḥaifa, Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen zt”l (1927-2016), is often included in programs praying for peace in Jerusalem in periods of conflict. . . .

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