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🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Purim Qatan  PurimThis is an archive of prayers and song written for the festival of Purim. Purim is named after the word pur in Megillat Esther, the method of divination by lot used to determine the proper date for the Jews under the dominion of the Persian empire (circa 5th century BCE) to be murdered en masse (Esther 3:7). The lot is cast on the 13th of Nisan for the 13th of Adar and the decree to destroy the Jews is relayed posthaste (Esther 3:12). (Significantly, the 13th of Nisan is the eve of Pesaḥ when, according to Leviticus 23:5-6, the slaughter and consumption of the paschal lamb is indicated — a very auspicious date indeed.) Hijinx ensue. Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, translated, or transcribed for Purim. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Applied Jewish Spirituality | Menaḥem ben Aharon | Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo | Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi | David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) | Marcus Heinrich Bresslau | Abraham Cronbach | Diwan Ashira Project | Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit | Seth H. Frisch | Moses Gaster | Hyman Hurwitz | Jewish Language Project | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | Moritz Mayer | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Avraham Menaḥem Mendel Mohr | Sabato Morais | Penina Moïse | Joseph Rudavsky | Jessie Ethel Sampter | Daniel Raphael Silverstein | Simeon Singer (translation) | Ẓvi Hirsch Sommerhausen | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | the Masoretic Text | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Adrienne Varady (translation) | Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) Filter resources by Tag ABAB rhyming scheme | acrostic | phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation | עד דלא ידע ad d'lo yada | Alphabetic Acrostic | American Jewry of the United States | קמעות qame'ot (amulets) | Aramaic | Bene Israel | ברכת המזון birkat hamazon | blessings following the shema | British Commonwealth | British Jewry | British Monarchy | Byzantine Empire | Cairo Geniza | calendar announcements | childbirth | children's prayers | combating anti-Jewish oppression | Constitutional Monarchy | dragons | dreams | אל שמר El Shemor | English Translation | English vernacular prayer | Esther | food | Freedom | Great Britain | Haketía | הושענות hoshanot | humor | hymns | Italian vernacular prayer | Izmir | Jewish-Christian relations | Jewish Women's Prayers | Judeo-Spanish | קרובות ḳerovot | Ladino Translation | Ladino vernacular prayer | למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ | Lawrence | liberty | Livorno | לוח lu'aḥ | מערבות maaravot | Marathi vernacular prayer | Massachusetts | Massachusetts Senate | meditation | מגילת אסתר Megillat Esther | mid-first millennium CE | מזמור Mizmor | Morocco | מוסר mussar | national anthems | Needing Attribution | Needing Vocalization | Ottoman Empire | Ottoman Jewry | parabiblical aggadah | parody | particularism and universalism | Philadelphia | פיוטים piyyuṭim | polemic | prayers for entertainers | prayers for pregnant women | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | pre-Purim | pregnancy | Problematic prayers | Prohibition in the United States | prophetic dreams | תהלים Psalms | Public Amidah | Purim parody | purimspiel | Queen Esther | Queen Victoria | Queens | resting meditation | rhyming translation | U.S. Senate | סעודות seudot | שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor | Shushan Purim | South Carolina | תחינות teḥinot | Trees | unknowing | יציב פתגם Yetsiv Pitgam | זמירות zemirot | pre-Ḥanukkah | יום זה מכובד yom zeh mekhubad | יום שבתון yom shabbaton | כל מקדש שביעי kol meqadesh shevi'i | משתה Mishteh | סעודת פורים seudat purim | פורים Purim | פיוטי אלהיכם piyyuṭei eloheikhem | שבעתא shiv'ata | תענית אסתר Fast of Esther | Psalms 22 | 86th Congress | 115th Congress | Psalms 121 | 11th century C.E. | 12th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 50th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category Blessings After Eating | Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41) | Contemplation | Ḥanukkah | Midrash Aggadah | Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies | Purim Readings | Seudat Purim | Ta'anit Esther | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 🇺🇸 United States of America Filter resources by Language English | French | Hebrew | Italian (Judeo-Italian) | Marathi | Spanish, Ladino (Haketia) | Spanish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Filter resources by Date Range
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The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.
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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