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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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אדמה ושמים | Adamah v’Shamayim (Earth & Heaven), a prayer-poem by Rabbi Louis Polisson after the song by Shimon Lev-Tahor (Suissa)

This poem was composed at the end of August 2020 / Elul 5780 as part of Rabbi Katy Allen’s Earth Etudes for Elul 5780. . . .

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Yom Kippur

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2020 United States racial reckoning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., first person, Needing Vocalization, Prayers as poems, September 2020 Western United States wildfires, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Louis Polisson

כַּפָּרוֹת | Kaparōt (using money dedicated for charity), the ritual for the expiation of offenses before Yom Kippur

The ritual of kaparot using a bundle of money dedicated for tsedaqah. . . .

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Kaparōt, Yom Kippur

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Angels as advocates, atonement, expiation, כפרות kaparot, Needing Source Images, redemptive almsgiving, צדקה tsedaqah

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

עֲנֵֽנוּ‏ | Egalitarian Aneinu, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This is an egalitarian version of the Aneinu litany recited at the end of Seliḥot services, featuring equal representation for the women of the Tanakh and Talmud. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., עננו anenu, Avot and Imahot, egalitarian, סליחות səliḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

“Avinu Malkeinu,” dvar tefillah by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

The words of Avinu Malkeinu are a little different from the standard translation. It doesn’t say in Hebrew, “we have no good deeds” (ein lanu ma’asim tovim), but rather, “there are no deeds in us” (ein banu ma’asim). The p’shat (literal meaning) implies that whatever we have done in the past does not have to live inside of us — we can release our deeds and be released from them, fully, to start over, like a newborn, to become whoever we need to become. . . .

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Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, אבינו מלכינו avinu malkeinu, commentary as prayer, d'var t'fillah, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical avinu malkeinu, Prayers as poems, שבת תשובה Shabbat Teshuvah

Contributor(s):

David Seidenberg

A Prayer for Eating on Yom Kippur, by A Mitzvah to Eat (2022)

“A Prayer for Eating on Yom Kippur” was written by A Mitzvah to Eat (Sarah Osborne) and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022). . . .

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Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, fasting, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh, תחינות teḥinot

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A Mitzvah to Eat and Sarah Osborne

An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur, by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez (2022)

An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur was written by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022), p. 4. . . .

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Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, fasting, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), כוונות kavvanot, פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh

Contributor(s):

Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez

An Alternate Yom Kippur Vidui, by Ron Lee Meyers (2022)

An alternate Vidui for Yom Kipur, including an alphabetical list of the things we’ve done wrong in the past year, and also an alphabetical list of the things we can do right in the new year. Includes the words to “Ani v’Ata”, the song of optimism and commitment to improve the world. . . .

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Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, English vernacular prayer, supplemental vidui, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s):

Ron Lee Meyers

כַּוָּנָה לִפְנֵי וִדּוּי | A meditation prior to the confessional, by Reena Kling (Havurat Shalom 2014/2022)

This kavvanah preceding the great vidui, appears in מַחְזוֹר בִּרְכַּת שָׁלוֹם Maḥzor Birkat Shalom, an egalitarian Rosh haShanah & Yom Kippur maḥzor (Havurat Shalom 2014/2022). The kavvanah was composed by Reena Kling ז״ל, and translated into Hebrew by Emily Aviva Kapor, with editing by Aliza Arzt. . . .

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Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Hebrew translation, כוונות kavvanot, supplemental vidui, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s):

Aliza Arzt, Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater, Reena Kling and the Ḥavurat Shalom Siddur Project

אָשַׁמְנוּ | Ashamnu for Gaza by B. Hallel

“Ashamnu” was written by the author in response to the conflict in Gaza on 30 December 2023 and first published on 1 October 2024 on their Substack account. . . .

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Yom Kippur

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2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, אשמנו Ashamnu, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, סליחות səliḥot, supplemental vidui, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s):

B. Hallel

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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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