Tsom Gedalyah • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers composed for Tsom Gedalyahu (the Fast of Gedaliah), occurring on the day after Rosh haShanah, memorializing the tragedy of the assassination by fellow Jews of Gedalyah, the last remaining governor of the kingdom of Judah, and with him, the end of self-government of the Jewish people following the destruction and exile initiated by the neo-Babylonian empire in the 6th century BCE.

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Gebet für alle Buß- und Fasttage | Prayer on Every Penitential and Fast Day, a teḥinah in German by Meïr Letteris (1846)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Meïr haLevi Letteris
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet
Tags:	19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, paraliturgical el melekh yoshev
	“Gebet für alle Buß- und Fasttage” was translated/adapted by Meïr haLevi Letteris and first published in Hebrew and Judeo-German in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (1846 Judeo-German edition), pp. 93-94. In the 1857 edition, it can be found on pp.107-108. In 1852, the prayer was translated into English (with a short prayer added for children) by Miriam Wertheimer under the title “Prayer said on every penitential and fast day” in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 71-72. . . .

Gebet an einem Fasttage | Prayer on a Public Fast Day (תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר), a teḥinah in German by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Meïr haLevi Letteris
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet
Tags:	19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry
	“Gebet an einem Fasttage. תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר” was written by Meir Letteris and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer…. In the 1846 printing, it appears on pp. 25-26. The translation here by Miriam Wertheimer, “Prayer for a Fast-Day” is as published in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 19-21. . . .

Gebet an einem Fasttage der Gesammtheit | Prayer on a Public Fast Day (תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר), by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Menaḥem Mendel Stern
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet
Tags:	19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry
	“Gebet an einem Fasttage der Gesammtheit. תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in his anthology of teḥinot, Die fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen…. In the 1841 printing, it appears on pp. 37-39. In the 1846 edition, it appears on pp. 39-40. . . .

Ḳinah (lamentation) for Yitzḥak Rabin, by Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen (2004)

Contributor(s):	Aryeh Cohen
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah, 11 Marḥeshvan
Tags:	מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prime minister, assassination, Prayers for leaders, Yitzḥak Rabin, ישראל Yisrael, elegies
	A kinah (lamentation) for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzḥak Rabin, assassinated on 4 November 1995, the yahrzeit of which is י״א בְּמַרחֶשְׁוָן ‎(11 Marḥeshvan). . . .

Am Todestage des Gedaljahu. Ẓom Gedalja | [Prayer] on the Day of the Assassination of Gedalyahu (צוֹם גְּדַלְיָה), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah
Tags:	19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, assassination, elegies
	“Am Todestage des Gedaljahu. Zom Gedalja.” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №41, on pp. 52-53. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №40, on pp. 63-64. . . .

סליחות לצום גדליה | Seliḥot for Tsom Gedalyah, translated by David Asher

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and David Asher (translation)
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah
Tags:	Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation
	The seliḥot for the day after Rosh haShanah, which is Tsom Gedalyah – the fast of Gedaliah. . . .

אבלה נפשי | Avlah Nafshi (My soul mourns), a seliḥah for Tsom Gedalyah attributed to Rav Saadia Gaon (10th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Asher (translation) and Saadiah ben Yosef Gaon
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah
Tags:	סליחות seliḥot, acrostic, קינות Ḳinnot, Alphabetic Acrostic, elegies, 47th century A.M., 10th century C.E.
	A seliḥah for the Fast of Gedalyah, attributed to Rav Saadia Gaon. . . .

תהלים ק״כ | Psalms 120 for the Fast of Gedalyah, translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and the Masoretic Text
Categories:	Tsom Gedalyah, Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150)
Tags:	Psalms for Fast Days, ultraviolence, שיר המעלות Shir haMa'alot
	An English translation of Psalms 120 with color coding indicating the style of cantillation for each verse. This Psalms is read by some on Tsom Gedalyah (the Fast of Gedalyah). . . .

An einem Fasttage (תענית) | Prayer on a fast day, a teḥinah in German by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

Contributor(s):	Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro
Categories:	Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Sheva b'Adar, Ta'anit Esther
Tags:	19th century C.E., fasting, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry
	“An einem Fasttage” 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 №22 on pp. 24-25. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №22 on pp. 30-33. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №22 on pp. 33-36. . . .

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