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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Penina Moïse
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י״ח במרחשון ה׳תשפ״ב (2021-10-24)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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 Self-Reflection
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 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, South Carolina, hymns, ABAB rhyming scheme, exhortation, הסתכלות פנימית histaklut pnimit
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“While man explores, with curious eye, ” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Self-Knowledge” as Hymn 23 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 27. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Penina Moïse
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י״ח במרחשון ה׳תשפ״ב (2021-10-24)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Self-Reflection
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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, South Carolina, hymns, ABAB rhyming scheme, הסתכלות פנימית histaklut pnimit
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“Descend into thyself, my soul!” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Self-Examination” as Hymn 22 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 26-27. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ג׳ באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-07-12)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
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Magic, Angels, Astrological, angelology, entering magical territory, ritual power, magical recipes
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A work of Jewish astrology and magic containing recipes specific to the angelic rulers of each day of the week. . . . |
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Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality
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ז׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ט (2019-04-12)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Erev Pesaḥ, Magid, Roleplaying
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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, Yetsiat Mitsrayim, liberation from mitsrayim, scripts, guided meditations
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A meditation which can be used to prepare for Pesaḥ, or for sharing at the Seder, to deepen the experience of liberation for yourself and others. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ו (2015-11-18)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Home, Theurgy
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19th century C.E., קמעות ḳame'ot, 56th century A.M., Epidemic, Asiatic Cholera, Pandemic, ברכת הבית birkat habayit, קמעות qame'ot (amulets), Needing Attribution
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The Birkat Habayit is perhaps the most popular blessing in the Jewish world, appearing as a hanging amulet inside the entrance of many houses of Jews of all streams. I have added niqud to the blessing and I am very grateful to Gabriel Wasserman for his corrections to my vocalization. . . . |
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Daniel Yoel Cohen
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ז׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ז (2016-10-09)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Self-Reflection
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וידוי vidui, repentance, integrity, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acknowledgment, paraliturgical vidui
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Vidui means acknowledgment. It is not about self-flagellation or blame, but about honesty, coming into contact with our lives, our patterns and experiences, and ultimately about teshuva and learning. In contacting the pain and suffering which our modes of being have given rise to, our regret can help us to willfully divest ourselves of them and awaken the yearning for those modes of being which are life-affirming, supportive of wholeness, connection, integrity, and flourishing. With each one we tap on our heart, touching the pain and closed-heartedness we have caused, and simultaneously knocking on the door that it may open again. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Josh Rosenberg
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ה׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ח (2017-09-25)
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Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Self-Reflection, Separation
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סליחות seliḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., self-forgiveness, Due deferrence, Between people, beyn adam l'adam, tokheḥa, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah
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A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
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ט״ו באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-06)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Dreaming, Bedtime Shema
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19th century C.E., dreams, sleep, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Angelic Protection, Prayers as poems
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The poem, “A Description of my Dreams” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was written in September 1849 and first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate Vol. 6:4, Tamuz 5608, July 1848, p.175-177. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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י״ד בניסן ה׳תשע״א (2011-04-17)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Ḳaddish, Torah Study
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Renewal, 20th century C.E., communal, participatory, talmud torah, ברכות brakhot, Aleph, North America, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, קדיש דרבנן Ḳaddish D'Rabanan
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What the Rabbis taught about teaching and learning was that all Torah study should begin and end with blessings, just as eating does. Often, in liberal Jewish circles today, these blessings are not done. But without them, it is easier for Torah study to feel like a mere academic discussion, devoid of spirit. And where the blessings are said but only by rote, it is easier for Torah study to feel merely antiquarian and automatic. In Jewish-renewal style, how can we bring new kavvanah — spiritual meaning, intention, focus, intensity — to these blessings — and therefore to the process of Torah study itself? . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Miri Landau (translation), Ze'ev Kainan and Masorti Movement in Israel
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כ״ד בניסן ה׳תשע״ח (2018-04-08)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Planting, Ḥag haNətiōt (Tu biShvat)
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ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., Masorti Movement, 58th century A.M., Trees, Prayers for Planting, planting trees, religious Zionist prayers, ישראל Yisrael
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This prayer for planting was composed by Zeev Kainan for Tu biShvat (2018) for the Masorti Movement for Conservative Judaism in Israel. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Netanel Miles-Yépez and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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כ״ב במרחשון ה׳תשע״ז (2016-11-23)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Well-being, health, and caregiving, Theurgy
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blessings, water, shehakol
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A blessing by Reb Zalman for Peace, Health, Joy, Prosperity, and Kindness which he wrote in spray paint on a municipal water tank behind his house in Colorado. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
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י״ט באלול ה׳תשע״ז (2017-09-10)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Birkhot haTorah, Torah Study
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talmud torah, interpretive translation, English Translation, North America, Late Antiquity, Jewish Renewal, Amoraic prayers, Prayers before Torah Study, Tannaitic prayers, Antiquity, ecoḥasid, devotional interpretation
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This English translation of the blessing for Torah study by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Versification according to the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l by Aharon Varady. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
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ט״ו באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-06)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Dreaming, Bedtime Shema
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19th century C.E., dreams, sleep, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Angelic Protection, Prayers as poems
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The poem, “The Angels’ Vigil” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was written in April 12, 1848 and first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 6:3, Sivan 5608, June 1848, p. 127-128. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
David Wolkin
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כ״ב באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-25)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Self-Reflection
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North America, journaling, writing, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, self-reflection, תשובה teshuvah, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)
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David Wolkin writes, “I’ve been pushing this writing exercise for a while now, but I taught a class with it in my home on Sunday and it proved to be powerful and connecting for all of us in the room. If you’re reflecting/repenting this season, you might benefit from this.” . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D.
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א׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ט (2019-08-31)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Tashlikh
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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, תשובה teshuvah, תשליך tashlikh
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Today I turned my heart toward the new year and wrote a prayer-poem for Tashlikh, the Rosh haShanah ritual of casting bread or stones into the water to cast off one’s past wrongdoings. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Rabbi Haviva Ner-David
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ח׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ב (2012-02-01)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Erev Shabbat, Immersion (Purification)
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water
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The following is a meditation I wrote (with the help of my friend Shira Gura, who teaches meditation and Yoga) to be used on Friday before Shabbat at the mikveh. It is based on midrashim related to Shabbat (for example, the notion that we receive an additional soul on Shabbat), as well as meanings behind mikveh in general (for example, the connection between the waters of Creation and the mikveh waters), and on some kavanot (sacred intentions) that came out of the Kabbalah and Ḥassidut movements. There is a strong tradition to write kavanot to use before immersing in the mikveh, since, as Maimonides writes in his Mishneh Torah 11:15, “If a person immerses but without buttressing him or herself [with sacred intention], it is as though he or she has not immersed at all.” . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Elimelekh Weisblum of Lizhensk
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א׳ באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-07-24)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Davvening
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interpretive translation, English Translation, Openers, 56th century A.M., Opening Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Prayers for Praying, Hassidic, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, devotional interpretation
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of “Rabbi Elimelekh of Lizhensk’s prayer to be able to pray” in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with a transcription of the vocalized text of the prayer. Reb Zalman may have made his translation to a slightly different edition of this prayer as indicated in several places. If you can determine which edition of Rabbi Elimelekh’s prayer was translated by Reb Zalman, please contact us or share your knowledge in the comments. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Amanda Rush
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ח׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ב (2011-11-04)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Davvening
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North America, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., Openers, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, Opening Prayers, Prayers for Praying, English vernacular prayer, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)
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Hashem, as I open my Siddur, let me pray with proper kavanah. Let me pray with sincerity, paying careful attention to every word I utter. Hashem, let me concentrate with my whole being on the meaning of each and every word, sentence and prayer. Keep my mind from wandering to other subjects, and keep me from neglecting to put my heart and soul in to each and every prayer, praise and blessing. May my prayer come before You, O Hashem, at a time of grace, and may it be accepted favorably by You. Amen. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Hillel Goelman and Aharon Roth
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כ״ד באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-04)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Contemplation
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20th century C.E., interpretive translation, Openers, 57th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, devotional interpretation, ḥassidut
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Reb Ahrele Roth, a”h, wrote a list of 32 mitsvot whose fulfillment is completed in the brain, the heart and the mouth. (The Hebrew alphabetical equivalent of 32 is ל”ב, the letters of which spell the Hebrew word LEV for Heart.) . . . |
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Miri Landau (translation) and Jessica Berlin
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כ״ד במרחשון ה׳תשע״ו (2015-11-05)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Planting, Separation
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Garlic, 21st century C.E., Adamah Farm, 58th century A.M., Jewish Farming, Teva Learning Center, Until Next Time, ADVA Reunion
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Garlic is typically the last crop planted on a farm, it is planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. So you are leaving a legacy for next years farmers (which might be you). We begin by separating the garlic bulbs from the cloves, similar to separating people from their community. Then, once the individual (garlic cloves) are planted, they form new communities in the ground. Similar to the process that we are all going through. Leaving our community here on the farm and going out into the world to create new communities. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Avi Dolgin
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י״ב באלול ה׳תשע״א (2011-09-11)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Tashlikh
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eco-conscious, water, four worlds, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Teva Learning Center, תשליך tashlikh
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Avi Dolgin shares his mindful practice for maintaining “tashlikh consciousness” in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler (translation)
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כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-03)
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| Terms: |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Well-being, health, and caregiving, Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Theurgy
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Healing, danger, shamanic praxis, predatory gaze, incantation, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, עין הרע evil eye, historiola, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
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This tkhine offers a formula for providing relief to a very ill person, and as such, should only be used as a supplement to recommendations provided by an expert physician or nurse. The source of the tkhine is Tkhine of a Highly Respected Woman, Budapest, 1896; and transcribed from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ל׳ בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-05)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Immersion (Purification)
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20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, immersion, ritual purity, balance, 57th century A.M., Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
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“Tkhine for when a Woman Goes to Immerse in the Mikve” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in Rokhl m’vakoh al boneho (Raḥel Weeps for her Children), Vilna, 1910. I have transcribed it without any changes from 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. If you can translate Yiddish, please help to translate it and share your translation with an Open Content license through this project. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
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א׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ב (2011-09-28)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Cacophany, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)
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Breslov, clapping, Coronation, ecoḥasid, Ḥasidic, Public Amidah, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, Atah Qadosh (Third Blessing of the Amidah), קדושה Qedushah, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov)
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In Uman, Ukraine (and in [the Breslov [community] in general) during the repetition of Rosh Hashanah Musaf, when when the ḥazan gets to the special brokha in the Amidah for Yamim Nora’im [the Days of Awe]: . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Eyal Raviv
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כ״ט בתמוז ה׳תשע״ד (2014-07-27)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Erev Shabbat, Immersion (Purification)
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North America, all bodies, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, shower ritual, bathing ritual, English vernacular prayer, shabbat preparation
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This is pre-Shabbos reflection that can be done in a shower or bath. Shabbat is a time when I am less focused on my selfish desires and instead my thoughts drift to my place in the larger community and world. I find myself doing some version of this before Shabbos most weeks and am welcome for the time to reflect on truly what it is to cease from lay work and consider the work that needs to be done to make the world a better place. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
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י״ט באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-11)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Dreaming
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19th century C.E., eros, ascent, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Angelic Nature, the Prince of Torah, Prayers as poems
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The poem, “A Vision” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was written November 1850 and first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 9:1, Nissan 5611/April 1851, p.31-33. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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י״ח באלול ה׳תשע״ח (2018-08-28)
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| Terms: |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Davvening, Separation
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blessings, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Post-prayer supplements, transition, Closing Prayers, Closers, Peer blessings, farewell blessings, love your fellow as yourself, הבדלות havdalot
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included this list of peer blessings for after davvening in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yitsḥak Luria
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ג׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ח (2017-12-20)
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| Terms: |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Birkhot haShaḥar, Davvening
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love, Openers, כוונות kavvanot, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., school of the ARI z"l, Leviticus 19, fellowship, love your fellow as yourself
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The custom of reciting this intention is attributed to Rav Yitzḥak Luria, circa 16th century, on Leviticus 19:18, recorded in Minhagei ha-Arizal–Petura d’Abba, p.3b by R’ Ḥayyim Vital. . . . |
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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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י״ד באייר ה׳תשע״ה (2015-05-03)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Learning, Study, and School, Torah Study
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20th century C.E., talmud torah, Jewish Renewal, 58th century A.M., Elat Chayyim, Prayers before Torah Study, ecoḥasid
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A prayer before commencing the study of Torah in groups, in ḥavrutah study, or alone. . . . |
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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
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ח׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ה (2014-11-01)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Erev Shabbat, Davvening, Tiqqunei Zohar
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interpretive translation, תפלין tefillin, petiḥah, Openers, Opening Prayers, 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., devotional interpretation, prayers of kabbalists, פתח אליהו Pataḥ Eliyahu, תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying
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Elijah began saying: Lord of the worlds You Who are One and not just a number You are the highest of the highest most hidden of the undisclosed no thought scheme grasps You at all. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Nosson Sternhartz of Nemirov
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י״ב באלול ה׳תשע״א (2011-09-11)
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Solitude
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19th century C.E., eco-conscious, Breslov, תחינות teḥinot, Openers, 56th century A.M., Prayers for Praying, Ḥasidic, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov)
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Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone; may it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grass — among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into התבודדות(hitbodedut) prayer, to talk with the One to whom I belong. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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ט״ו בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-11-30)
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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Theurgy
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Angels, Late Antiquity, prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, epical narrative as ward, cold iron, iron in folklore, historiola, Angels of Healing
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A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan
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ב׳ באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-07-14)
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Tishah b'Av, Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), Roleplaying
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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Psalms 5, English vernacular prayer, false piety, religious hypocrisy, labor exploitation, Ḥillul Hashem, corruption, improper use of the crown, communal shame, difference disagreement and deviance, tolerance and intolerance, inclusion and exclusion
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