Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Psalms 150 in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .
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Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Unknown Author(s) and the Masoretic Text
Categories:  Shaḥarit, Tehilim, cacophany | Tags:  interpretive translation, Psalms 150, devotional interpretation, psukei dezimrah, halleluyah, music making
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Tisha b'Av, Roleplaying | Tags: 20th century C.E., 56th 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 
“That Religion Be Not a Cloak for Hypocrisy,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 435-5 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945). . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Roleplaying | Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ḥasidut, neoḥasidic idealization 
“The Pious Man” is a prayer-poem from Mordecai Kaplan’s diary entry, September 19, 1942, on the virtue of piety as expressed in an essay published earlier that year by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Piety was a Roman virtue, but in this essay, A.J. Heschel appears to be describing an idealization of Ḥasidut. . . . Contributor(s): Josh Rosenberg
Categories: Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yamim Nora'im, Self-Reflection, Separation | Tags: seliḥot, Elul Zman, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., self-forgiveness, Due deferrence, Between people, beyn adam l'adam, tokheḥa 
A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Torah Study | Tags: talmud torah, interpretive translation, English Translation, North America, Late Antiquity, Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., Amoraic prayers, Prayers before Torah Study, Tannaitic prayers, Antiquity, ecoḥasid 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories: Dreaming | Tags: 19th century C.E., eros, ascent, 56th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Angelic Nature, the Prince of Torah, Prayers as poems 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories: Bedtime Shema, Dreaming | Tags: 19th century C.E., dreams, sleep, 56th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Angelic Protection, Prayers as poems 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories: Bedtime Shema, Dreaming | Tags: 19th century C.E., dreams, sleep, 56th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Angelic Protection, Prayers as poems 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories: Walking | Tags: 19th century C.E., Metatron, 56th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, Ḥanokh, English Romanticism, Walking with the Divine, Derekh Hashem, Physical translation, Angelification, Angelic Nature, Prayers as poems 
“Enoch” by Rosa Emma Salaman was first published in the Occident 4:9, Kislev 5607/December 1846. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Netanel Miles-Yépez and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Peace, Theurgy | Tags: blessings, water, shehakol 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Benyamim Sedaka
Categories: Needing Transcription, Leil Shabbat, Feasting, Needing Source Images | Tags: kiddush, Samaritan, Nusaḥ haSamerim 
Benyamim Sedaka’s English translations of the Israelite-Samaritan “Blessing on the Food” (Kiddush) and Abraham ben Marchiv Tsedaka Hassafari’s opening to the Friday night Shabbat meal . . . Contributor(s): Danny Yoel Cohen
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yamim Nora'im, Yom Kippur, Self-Reflection | Tags: repentance, integrity 
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. . . . Contributor(s): David Wolkin
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yamim Nora'im, Yom Kippur, Self-Reflection, Needing Translation | Tags: North America, journaling, writing, teshuva, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, self-reflection 
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.” . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler (translation)
Categories: Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution, Mikvah | Tags: 20th century C.E., tkhines, immersion, ritual purity, balance, 56th century A.M. 
“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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler (translation)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Theurgy, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution | Tags: Healing, danger, shamanic praxis, predatory gaze, incantation 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Shema, Contemplation, Midrashim, Theurgy | Tags: shema, esoteric Judaism, cosmology, creation, early first-millennium CE 
The text of the Sefer Yetsirah presented here follows the “experimental exercise” produced by A. Peter Hayman in his Sefer Yeṣira: Edition Translation and Text-Critical Commentary, “Appendix III: The Earliest Recoverable Text of Sefer Yesira” (Mohr Siebeck, 2004). For details on his construction and his review of the available recensions of Sefer Yetsirah, please refer to Hayman’s complete commentary. Numbers in parentheses indicate sections. I have added spaces between sections indicate traditional chapter breaks. Square brackets indicate some doubt as to whether the included wording was present in the earlier form of the text (p.124). . . . 
As powerful a practice as a standing meditation may be, reciting the familiar words of the Amidah with intention can prove to be a major challenge. The words may become rote, and the davvener may wonder if the ancient formulas are even meaningful to them. In this adaptation of the Amidah, Oren Steinitz treats each B’rakhah as a prompt to remind ourselves what we are praying for and shares his own thoughts as an example. Rabbi Steinitz originally wrote the “Memory Amidah” in 2013, during the Davennen Leadership Training Institute cohort 7, and revised it for sharing here through the Open Siddur Project in 2016. . . . 
The mode of silently reading prayers puts the worshiper in the realm of the cognitive—just as we might experience reading a book on the subway. But the act of mumbling moves from a purely cognitive experience to a more viscerally emotional act. The aesthetic effect of this mumbling serves a dual purpose: Besides its own value as a way of engaging in prayer, it provides a contrast to the truly silent parts of the prayer: the Amidah. . . . Contributor(s): Gabbai Seth Fishman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Self-Reflection | Tags: free will, bitul neshama, reception, consolation 
The one who prays to Hashem Yitbarakh should hold the belief that, from the start, there was a cause brought about by the everlasting One, and that S/He is the source of all completions, and S/He created all the worlds at the time when it arose in Hir will. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Categories: Rosh haShana for Domesticated Animals (behemot), Halakhah, Environment, Feasting, Self-Reflection | Tags: blessings, eco-conscious, brakhot, ecoḥasid 
The Talmud (Brakhot 35a-b) teaches that eating food without saying a brakhah (a blessing) beforehand is like stealing. A lot of people know that teaching, and it’s pretty deep. But here’s an even deeper part: the Talmud doesn’t call it “stealing”, but מעילה ׁ(“me’ilah“), which means taking from sacred property that belongs to the Temple. So that means that everything in the world is sacred and this Creation is like a HOLY TEMPLE. . . . 
Basic Hebrew letter and vowel lists adorn the opening pages of a number of siddurim published a century ago — evidence of the centrality of the Jewish prayer book as a common curricular resource. But the Hebrew letters are not only essential to fluency in Hebrew language, they are also the atomic elements composing the world of the rabbinic Jewish imagination. This is especially so for those who conceive in their devotional literary practices an implicit theurgical capability in modifying and adapting the world of language though interpretation, translation, and innovative composition. To create a world with speech relies on thought and this creative ability is only limited by the facility of the creator to derive meaning from a language’s underlying structure. This, therefore, is a table of the Hebrew letters arranged in order of their numerical value, in rows 1-9, 10-90, and 100-9000, so that elements with similar numerical structure, (but dissimilar phonetic amd symbolic attributes) appear in vertical columns. Attention has been given to the literal meaning of the letter names and the earliest glyph forms known for each letter in the Hebrew abgad. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Peace, Theurgy, Home, Needing Attribution | Tags: amulet, kameya 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Joshua Gutoff
Categories: Pedagogy, Roleplaying, Adar | Tags: teaching prayer, Mask Making, Constructivism, weltanschauung 
I wanted my students to start thinking of prayers as expressions of an interior world, rather than as descriptions of the exterior one. I suggested to them that they think of a prayer as a kind of mask, much like the ones worn in religious rituals by many peoples. The job of the mask-wearer is to discover the reality on the “inside” of the mask and bring it to life. . . . Contributor(s): Hai Ben Sherira Gaon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Theurgy, Needing Translation | Tags: Magic, Hekhalot, prophylactic 
The Shimmush Tehillim is a medieval work providing prescriptive theurgical associations for Psalms and verses from Psalms. It has been historically attributed to Rav Hai Gaon (939-1038 CE) but any definitive statement of authorship is lacking. The suggestion that portions of the Shimush Tehillim were authored during the late Geonic period in Iraq isn’t implausible. We also know that Hai Gaon was knowledgeable of Hekhalot writings that should at least be considered part of the same thought world as the Shimmush Tehillim. Writings found in the Shimush Tehillim have been found in manuscripts dating from the 12th century. This digital transcription of Shimush Tehillim derives from Elias Klein Békéscsaba’s 1936 compilation. This edition should not be considered a critical text, as earlier editions certainly exist. Not all of the Psalms are identified as having a particular theurgical use. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Learning, Torah Study | Tags: 20th century C.E., talmud torah, Jewish Renewal, 57th century A.M., Prayers before Torah Study, ecoḥasid 
My Lord Creator of all, Master of all worlds, Supreme, compassionate and forgiving, Thank You for Your Torah, Thank You for allowing me to learn from it And to move toward serving You. Thank You for revealing some of the Mysteries of Your Way. . . . Contributor(s): Yitsḥak Luria and Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Categories: Learning, Torah Study | Tags: kabbalah, esoteric Judaism, 16th century C.E., Lurianic, 53rd century A.M., school of the ARI z"l 
Master of the worlds and Lord of Lords, Father of Compassion and Forgiveness, we give thanks before you [haShem] Elohainu, Elohai of our ancestors, by bowing and kneeling for having brought us near to your Torah and to your sacred work, and for granting us a portion in the hidden insights of your holy Torah. . . . Contributor(s): Eyal Raviv
Categories: Erev Shabbat, Mikvah | Tags: North America, all bodies, teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., kavvanot, shower ritual, bathing ritual, English vernacular prayer, shabbat preparation 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sarah Chandler
Categories: Theurgy, Needing Proofreading, Pi Day | Tags: 3.14159..., Calculation, circle drawing, π day, Bar Ilan University, Mathematics, academic articles 
There is a Rabbinical tradition that the value of pi is hidden within a ktiv-kri (reading-versus-writing disparity) in I Kings 7:23. According to Hebrew scriptural tradition, the word meaning ‘line’ is written as קוה, but read as קו. . . . Contributor(s): Seth (Avi) Kadish
Categories: Tanakh, Torah Study | Tags: TaNaKh, sourcetext, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., Masoretic Text, critical texts 
Miqra `al pi ha-Mesorah is a new experimental edition of the Tanakh in digital online format, now available as a carefully corrected draft of the entire Tanakh. Two features make this edition of the Tanakh unique: Full editorial documentation and a free content license. Full editorial documentation: Various editions of the Torah or Tanakh in Hebrew may seem identical to the untrained eye, but the truth is that each and every edition—from Koren to Breuer and from Artscroll to JPS—makes numerous important editorial decisions. In most editions these decisions are not transparent, and the student of Torah therefore relies upon the good judgment of the editor. But in Miqra `al pi ha-Mesorah the entire editorial process and the reasoning behind it are fully described in all of their details: Every stylistic alteration and every textual decision made regarding every letter, niqqud, and ta`am in the entire Tanakh is documented. . . . Contributor(s): Isaac Seligman Baer and Jonah Rank
Categories: Mourning, Solitude, Kaddish, Needing Attribution | Tags: 19th century C.E., English Translation, personal, teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Mourner's Kaddish, Memorial prayers, Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish 
Please Lord, Sovereign of Compassion, God, Arbiter of the spirits of all flesh, Parent of Orphans and Judge of widows: God, from the source of Your holiness! May my prayer and the Torah of life that I have learned come before you on account of the soul . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
Categories: Rosh haShana for Domesticated Animals (behemot), Roleplaying | Tags: eco-conscious, animal protection, ecoḥasid 
Domesticated animals (beheimot) are halakhically distinguished from ḥayot, wild animals in having been bred to rely upon human beings for their welfare. As the livelihood and continued existence of wild animals increasingly depends on the energy, food, and land use decisions of human beings, the responsibility for their care is coming into the purview of our religious responsibilities as Jews under the mitzvah of tsa’ar baalei ḥayyim — mindfullness of the suffering of all living creatures in our decisions and behavior. Rosh Hashanah LeBeheimot is the festival where we are reminded of this important mitzvah at the onset of the month in which we imagine ourselves to be the flock of a god upon whose welfare we rely. The Council of All Beings is an activity that can help us understand and reflect upon the needs of the flock of creatures that already rely upon us for their welfare. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Dreaming | Tags: anxiety, judgement, dreams, sleep 
If one has a dream which makes him sad he should go and have it interpreted in the presence of three. He should have it interpreted! Has not Rav Ḥisda said: A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read? — Say rather then, he should have a good turn given to it in the presence of three. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
Categories: Self-Reflection | Tags: North America, reflective practice, journaling, writing, petiḥah, teḥinot, 21st century C.E., Petiḥot, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English
May my thoughts seek truth and integrity, the humility that is commensurate with my ignorance, the compassion that arises from the depths of awareness, as depths speak to depths… . . . Contributor(s): Lieba B. Ruth
Categories: Purim, Roleplaying | Tags: tzedaka, nistar, hidden, revealed, masks, giving 
Because we cannot live on two planes, we are granted the opportunity to disguise our external features. We develop the capacity to know each others hearts and find even greater satisfaction in the exchange. Yet, too often, we act as if someone else — who looks remarkably like oneself — is going to provide the support for nonprofit organizations we deem are necessary for a decent life. We assume / hope / pray that someone “else” is doing our part. It’s their turn to make a critical contribution, even a small one, that gives relief, replaces a worn-out part, opens the door wide enough to make a difference. . . . Contributor(s): Levi Weiman-Kelman
Categories: by Praxis | Tags: sourcesheet, Silence, Breath, Music, Words, Community דומיה – Silence לְךָ דֻמִיָּה תְהִלָּה אֱלֹהִים בְּצִיּוֹן וּלְךָ יְשֻׁלַּם נֶדֶר: תהלים פרק ס”ה (ב’) To You silence is praise, God in Zion, (Psalm 65.2-3) אֵין עוֹמְדִים לְהִתְפַּלֵּל, אֶלָּא מִתּוֹךְ כֹּבֶד רֹאשׁ. חֲסִידִים הָרִאשׁוֹנִים הָיוּ שׁוֹהִים שָׁעָה אַחַת – וּמִתְפַּלְלִים, כְּדֵי שֶׁיְּכַוְּנוּ אֶת לִבָּם לַמָּקוֹם. אֲפִלּוּ הַמֶּלֶךְ שׁוֹאֵל בִּשְׁלוֹמוֹ – לֹא יְשִׁיבֶנּוּ; וַאֲפִלּוּ נָחָשׁ כָּרוּךְ . . . 
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.” . . . Contributor(s): Eden Pearlstein
Categories: Self-Reflection | Tags: hip hop, sheydim, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish animism 
‘Life Sentence’ is a poetic exploration of solitary authorship — interpreting the old-world literary tradition and archetypes for the ‘ADD’ generation. This is a boundary and genre-crossing work that exists at the intersection of Radical Jewish, Indy and Hip-Hop culture. . . . Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Musaf, Rosh haShana for this World, cacophany | Tags: Breslov, clapping, Bratslav, Coronation, ecoḥasid, Ḥasidic, Public Amidah, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, Qedusha, Amidah Third Blessing 
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]: . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Nosson Sternhartz of Nemirov
Categories: Solitude | Tags: 19th century C.E., eco-conscious, Breslov, Bratslav, teḥinot, Petiḥot, 55th century A.M., Prayers for Praying, Ḥasidic 
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. . . . Contributor(s): Avi Dolgin
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, by Praxis | Tags: eco-conscious, water 
Avi Dolgin shares his mindful practice for maintaining “tashlikh consciousness” in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah. . . . Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories: Kaddish, Torah Study | Tags: Renewal, communal, participatory, talmud torah, brakhot, Aleph 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? . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
Categories: Ma'ariv, Shema, Shaḥarit, Contemplation, Shaḥarit, by Praxis, Art, Nighttime, Daytime | Tags: meditation, technique, yiḥud, xerography, Teva 
When works are printed bearing shemot, any one of the ten divine names sacred to Judaism, they are cared for with love. If a page or bound work bearing shemot falls to the ground it’s a Jewish custom to draw up the page or book and kiss it. Just as loved ones are cared for after they’ve fallen and passed away, when the binding fails and leaves fall from siddurim and other seforim they are collected in boxes and bins and brought for burial, where their holy words can decompose back into the earth from which their constituent elements once grew, and were once harvested to become paper and books, and ink, string, glue. While teaching at the Teva Learning Center last Fall 2010, I collected all our shemot that we had intentionally or unintentionally made on our copy machine, or which we had collected from the itinerant teachers who pass through the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center on so many beautiful weekend shabbatonim. While leafing through the pages, I found one and kept it from the darkness of the genizah. . . . Contributor(s): David Zvi Kalman
Categories: Needing Vocalization, Solitude | Tags: North America, Solo, No Minyan, 21st century C.E., Petiḥot, 57th century A.M., Philadeelphia 
God and God of my forefathers and foremothers, as I stand here in an innermost room and pray, so too should you in an innermost room heed my questions, my praises and my requests, both from the utterances of my mouth and the utterances of my heart. Even if I am silent, you will know that my tefilla is directed towards you, who is One and whose name is One, alone in all the worlds. My heart is awake and my voice knocks. Open for me, my Lord, my Perfect One, the gates of Tefilla. . . . |
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