Birkhot haTorah • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

בִּרְכוֹת הַתּוֹרָה | Birkhot haTorah, paraliturgical reflections by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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Birkhot haTorah, Birkhot haShaḥar, Torah Study

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shame resilience, ברכות התורה birkhot haTorah, paraliturgical birkhot haTorah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

A paraliturgical reflection on the blessings over learning Torah, the Birkhot haTorah, for a shame resilience practice. . . .

ברכות התורה | Blessing for Torah Study, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)

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Birkhot haTorah, Torah Study

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Amoraic prayers, Prayers before Torah Study, Tannaitic prayers, Antiquity, talmud torah, ecoḥasid, interpretive translation, devotional interpretation, English Translation, North America, Late Antiquity, Jewish Renewal

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. . . .

ברייתא דרבי ישמעאל | The Baraita of Rebbi Yishma’el: thirteen principles of halakhic exegesis, translated by Ben-Zion Bokser

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ben-Zion Bokser and Yishmael ben Elisha

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Midrash Halakhah, Birkhot haTorah

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Antiquity, 49th century A.M., 1st century C.E., exegetical rules, hermeneutics

The thirteen exegetical rules by which halakhot from the Torah may be derived, according to Rebbi Yishmael, included with the preliminary prayers before the Psukei d’Zimrah/Zemirot of Shaḥarit. . . .