Aqedat Yitsḥaq • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

On the Reconciliation of Yitsḥaq: a meditation on the Offering of the Two Goats on Yom Kippur, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (the Shalom Center)

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow, Phyllis Berman and the Shalom Center
Categories:	Yom Kippur, Aqedat Yitsḥaq
Tags:	peace, Israelis and Palestinians, Azazel, Bnei Yisrael and Yishmael
	Especially for those of us who use the Torah passages on the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael and the Binding of Isaac for Rosh Hashanah, together with Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman, I want to recommend that you read from the Sefer Torah the passage in Genesis 25:7-11 on the reconciliation of the two brothers as they come together to bury their dangerous father Avraham/Ibrahim/Abraham. . . .

Morn breaks upon Moriah’s height! – a hymn for Rosh haShanah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Penina Moïse
Categories:	Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Aqedat Yitsḥaq
Tags:	19th century C.E., עקדת יצחק Akeidat Yitsḥaq, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, South Carolina, hymns, ABAB rhyming scheme
	“Morn breaks upon Moriah’s height!” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “New Year (Roshe Hashannah)” as Hymn 60 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 61-62. . . .

Meditation on the Aqedah, by Shim’on Menachem

Contributor(s):	Shim'on Menachem
Categories:	Aqedat Yitsḥaq
Tags:	עקדת יצחק Akeidat Yitsḥaq, self-sacrifice, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Avraham Avinu, Yitsḥak, death and resurrection of the beloved son
	I had an opening, with the help and support of some holy chevrei, to take on Binding of Isaac and accompanying meditations that occupy a conspicuous space during the morning blessings. This is what came out. . . .

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