Prayers for the Month of Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev (כִּסְלֵו) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/kislev/ a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:28:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2015-5509b4bdv1_site_icon-250x250.png Prayers for the Month of Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev (כִּסְלֵו) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/kislev/ 32 32 תפילה לחודש כסלו עד סוף חנוכה | Prayer for the month of Kislev through the end of Ḥanukkah (from Isaiah 60), by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/shabbat/qabbalat-shabbat/prayer-for-kislev-through-hanukkah/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/shabbat/qabbalat-shabbat/prayer-for-kislev-through-hanukkah/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:22:45 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=18296 Siddur Ha'Avodah Shebalev of Kehillat Kol HaNeshamah (R' Levi Weiman-Kelman, R' Ma'ayan Turner, and Shaul Vardi, 2007). The translation provided here was adapted from the one made by Shaul Vardi in Siddur Ha'Avodah Shebalev. --Aharon Varady. ]]>

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Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] | Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Shaul Vardi (translation) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation) | Susan Weingarten (translation)
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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/solilunar/shabbat/qabbalat-shabbat/prayer-for-kislev-through-hanukkah/feed/ 2 בְּכִסְלֵו – מאבן בֹחן | On Kislev, from the poem “Even Boḥan” by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/commemorative-days/hanukkah/on-kislev-from-the-poem-touchstone-by-kalonymus-b-kalonymus-ben-meir/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/commemorative-days/hanukkah/on-kislev-from-the-poem-touchstone-by-kalonymus-b-kalonymus-ben-meir/#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:35:07 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=18267

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Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] | Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Shaul Vardi (translation) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation) | Susan Weingarten (translation)
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anti-predatory | dairy foods | divine light | English vernacular prayer | אבן בוחן Even Boḥan | illuminatus | in the merit of our ancestors | Inner light | כבוד kavod | Kehilat Kol HaNeshama | Late Middle Ages | Léah | MAZAL QESHET | Megillat Antiokhus | Megillat Yehudit | new moon | paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh | paraliturgical teḥinot | REUVEN | Seasonal Affective Disorder | שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim | South Jerusalem | תחינות teḥinot | teḥinot in English | THE HUNTER | the Rainbow | תחינות tkhines | Yiddish vernacular prayer | 14th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 51st century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/commemorative-days/hanukkah/on-kislev-from-the-poem-touchstone-by-kalonymus-b-kalonymus-ben-meir/feed/ 3 תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ כִּסְלֵו | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev (1877) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-for-shabbat-mevorkhim-rosh-hodesh-kislev/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-for-shabbat-mevorkhim-rosh-hodesh-kislev/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:01:47 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=18134 Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Widow and Brothers Romm, Vilna 1877). English translation adapted slightly from Techinas: A Voice from the Heart "As Only A Woman Can Pray" by Rivka Zakutinsky (Aura Press, 1992). --A.N. Varady ]]>

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Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] | Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Shaul Vardi (translation) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation) | Susan Weingarten (translation)
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anti-predatory | dairy foods | divine light | English vernacular prayer | אבן בוחן Even Boḥan | illuminatus | in the merit of our ancestors | Inner light | כבוד kavod | Kehilat Kol HaNeshama | Late Middle Ages | Léah | MAZAL QESHET | Megillat Antiokhus | Megillat Yehudit | new moon | paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh | paraliturgical teḥinot | REUVEN | Seasonal Affective Disorder | שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim | South Jerusalem | תחינות teḥinot | teḥinot in English | THE HUNTER | the Rainbow | תחינות tkhines | Yiddish vernacular prayer | 14th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 51st century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-for-shabbat-mevorkhim-rosh-hodesh-kislev/feed/ 1 Light Divine, a prayer on the quest for illumination in apparent darkness (CCAR 1923) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/kislev/light-divine-a-prayer-on-the-quest-for-illumination-in-apparent-darkness-ccar-1923/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/kislev/light-divine-a-prayer-on-the-quest-for-illumination-in-apparent-darkness-ccar-1923/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:32:44 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=66426 ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 71-73.]]>

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Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] | Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Shaul Vardi (translation) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation) | Susan Weingarten (translation)
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anti-predatory | dairy foods | divine light | English vernacular prayer | אבן בוחן Even Boḥan | illuminatus | in the merit of our ancestors | Inner light | כבוד kavod | Kehilat Kol HaNeshama | Late Middle Ages | Léah | MAZAL QESHET | Megillat Antiokhus | Megillat Yehudit | new moon | paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh | paraliturgical teḥinot | REUVEN | Seasonal Affective Disorder | שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim | South Jerusalem | תחינות teḥinot | teḥinot in English | THE HUNTER | the Rainbow | תחינות tkhines | Yiddish vernacular prayer | 14th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 51st century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
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