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This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for Yom haKippurim (the Day of Expiation), the second of the three Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe).

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Exhortacion | Exhortation of Ḥakham Ishak Nieto (1740)

An exhortation given by Ḥakham Ishak Nieto published before his translation of the Sliḥot, in Spanish with English translation by Isaac Pinto (1766).

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18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., exhortation, Openers, סליחות səliḥot, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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Isaac Pinto (translation), Ishac Nieto and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תחנה אמהות | Prayer for Yizkor, from the Tkhine of the Matriarchs by Seril Rappaport (ca. 18th century)

“Tkhine of the Matriarchs for Yizkor on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Yamim Tovim” by Rebbetsin Seril Rappaport is a faithful transcription of her tkhine included in “תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול” (Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul) published in Vilna, 1874, as re-published in The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni.

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Shavuot, Mourning, Yom Kippur, Shemini Atseret, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

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18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Paraliturgical yizkor, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer, יזכור yizkor

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Seril Rappaport and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Penitential Days, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Prayer for the Penitential Days” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 90-91. It is not found in the US edition.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical seliḥot, סליחות səliḥot, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

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Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Meditation for the Penitential Days, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Meditation for the Penitential Days” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 88-90. It is not found in the US edition.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical reflections, paraliturgical seliḥot, סליחות səliḥot

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Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Eternal Love is Thine, a hymn for Yom Kippur by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Eternal love is Thine,” by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (ca.1800-1876), first publishedin 1842, appears under the subject “Day of Atonement: Yom HaKippureem” as Hymn 62 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 64.

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Yom Kippur, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, תשובה teshuvah

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Caroline de Litchfield Harby, Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

My Heart is Bared to Thee, Oh Lord – a hymn for Yom Kippur by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“My heart is bared to thee, oh Lord,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Day of Atonement (Yome Hakipureem)” as Hymn 61 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 63-64.

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Yom Kippur, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

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Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Lord of the World! When I Behold – a hymn for Yom Kippur by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Lord of the world! when I behold ,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Day of Atonement (Yome Hakipureem)” as Hymn 63 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 64-65.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

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Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Evening of the Day of Atonement (נעילה), by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for a woman pleading for atonement in the final service of Yom Kippur at sunset.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] for the Day of Atonement, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for a woman pleading for atonement on Yom Kippurim.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Penitential Prayer, by Rabbi Sabato Morais (October 1867)

This penitential prayer dated “Tishri 5628 [October 1867]” was offered in conclusion to “A Penitential Sermon” reprinted in The Jewish Messenger on 25 November 1867. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (page 34, clipping 041), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.)

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Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Philadelphia, Ḳ.Ḳ. Miḳveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), סליחות səliḥot, תשובה teshuvah

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Sabato Morais and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

פעלד־מעסטען | Feldmesten | Measuring of the Graves, a prayer-poem by Morris Rosenfeld (before 1898)

This is the poem “פעלד־מעסטען” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 135-136. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “The Measuring of the Graves” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 46-49. A rhyming translation by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank under the title, “Measuring of the Graves” was published in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), pp. 70-71. If you know the date of the earliest publication of this prayer, please leave a comment or contact us.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., cemetery prayers, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, Prayers as poems, rhyming translation, Yiddish vernacular prayer

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Helena Frank (translation), Rose Pastor Stokes (translation), Leo Wiener (translation), Morris Rosenfeld and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

O Day of God, an English translation of Leopold Stein’s paraliturgical Kol Nidrei “O Tag des Herrn!” by Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1904)

“O Tag des Herrn!” is a paraliturgical Kol Nidrei by Leopold Stein. Here it is translated from German to English by the Unitarian minister Frederick Lucian Hosmer on behalf of the Reform rabbi Isaac S. Moses. Hosmer’s translation appears in Hymns and Anthems for Jewish Worship (ed. Isaac S. Moses, 1904), hymn №107 pp. 69-71.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Translation, German vernacular prayer, hymns, O Tag des Herrn, paraliturgical kol nidrei

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Frederick Lucian Hosmer, Leopold Stein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Sündenbekenntnis (Widduj) | A prayer upon completing the Vidui on Yom Kippur, by Lise Tarlau (1907)

This untitled prayer by Lise Tarlau for concluding the vidui prayers on Yom Kippur (“Sündenbekenntnis. (Widduj.)”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 217-218.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical vidui, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, וידוי vidui

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Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves, a poem by Alter Abelson (1913)

“Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves” by Alter Abelson, appears in the section “The Modern Period” in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (Joseph Friedlander and George Alexander Kohut, 1917), pp. 698-699. The poem may have first been published in the 26 September 1913 edition of the Hebrew Standard, p.10.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English poetry, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, memento mori, ḳever mesten

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Alter Abelson and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Day of God, Leopold Stein’s “O Tag des Herrn!” (1840) adapted from Frederick Lucian Hosmer’s translation (1904) as a hymn for Yom Kippur by Angie Irma Cohon (1921)

Angie Irma Cohon’s “Day of God” is a hymn for Yom Kippur, an abbreviated adaptation of “O Tag des Herrn!,” a paraliturgical Kol Nidrei by Leopold Stein, translated from German to English by Frederick Lucian Hosmer. Cohon’s abridged rendering is published in תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 20.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns, O Tag des Herrn, paraliturgical kol nidrei

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Angie Irma Cohon, Frederick Lucian Hosmer, Leopold Stein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Yom Kippur—The Day of Atonement, a prayer for at-One-ment (CCAR 1923)

“Yom Kippur—The Day of Atonement” is the sixteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 57-60. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alienation, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, atonement, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

God is Near, a prayer against alienation (CCAR 1923)

“God is Near” is the fifteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 53-56.

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Yom Kippur, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alienation, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, depression, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

The Child’s Al Ḥet, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (1924)

This prayer for “The Child’s Al Chet” by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach is found in his, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on pages 124-126.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, וידוי vidui

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Abraham Cronbach and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

“Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin,” a prayer-poem by Miriam del Banco (1932)

The prayer-poem ““Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin”” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in her posthumously published anthology, Poetry and Prose (1932), p. 94-95.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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Miriam del Banco and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for all Jewish Communities in Germany for the Eve of the Day of Atonement, by Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck (10 October 1935)

This is the prayer which Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck had disseminated to Jewish communities throughout Germany to recite on Yom Kippur, 10 October 1935. The German text here is as found in the archival notes of Helmut Grünewald, Ein Judenjunge durfte kein Deutscher sein (Bristol, 1998), pp. 20-21 in the collection of the Leo Baeck Institute. The English translation is as published by Dr. Michael Meyer in Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times (2020), pp. 106-107.

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Kristallnacht (9-10 November, 16 Marḥeshvan), 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., עמידה amidah, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, standing meditation, Third Reich, Yom Kippur

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Leo Baeck and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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