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Additional Morning Prayers

This is an archive of additional prayers written for, or relevant to, the experience of waking up and preparing oneself for the rest of the day.

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Morgengebet [№1] | Morning prayer [№1], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Desgleichen [Morgengebet №1]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №66 on pp. 95-96. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №68 on pp. 118-120. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №71 on pp. 123-125.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Morgengebet [№3] | Morning prayer [№3], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Desgleichen [Morgengebet №3]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №68 on pp. 98-101. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №70 on pp. 122-125. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №73 on pp. 127-130.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Morgengebet [№2] | Morning prayer [№2], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Desgleichen [Morgengebet №2]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №67 on pp. 97-98. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №69 on pp.121-122. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №72 on pp. 126-127.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Morgen⸗ und Abendgebet | Morning and evening prayer, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Morgen⸗ und Abendgebet” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №65 on pp. 93-95. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №67 on pp. 116-118. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №70 on pp. 121-123.

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Bedtime Shema, Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Morning Meditation, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Morning meditation” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 69-70.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Family Morning Prayer, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Family morning prayer” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 153-155. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 164-166.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, family prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Morning Prayer, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

A prayer upon rising in the morning.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical mah tovu, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Morning Prayer for Children, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

“Morning Prayer for Children” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, prayers on behalf of parents

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּחִנָה קַבָּלַת עוֺל מַלְכוּת שָׁמַיִם | Tkhine [for Women] Receiving the Yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven (1916)

The author of this tkhine intended for women to begin their morning devotional reading of prayers by first accepting patriarchal dominion. Women compensate for their inherent weakness and gain their honor only through the established gender roles assigned to them. The placement of this tkhine at the beginning of the Shas Tkhine Rav Peninim, a popular collection of women’s tkhines published in 1916 (during the ascent of women’s suffrage in the U.S.), suggests that it was written as a prescriptive polemic to influence pious Jewish women to reject advancing feminist ideas.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anti-feminist, bitul neshama, dominion, gender roles, Jewish Women's Prayers, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Refoyl Finkl (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Sincerity, a prayer for authenticity and genuine honesty (CCAR 1923)

“Sincerity” is the seventh prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 28-30.

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Additional Morning Prayers, Self-Reflection

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, paraliturgical elohai netsor, paraliturgical seliḥot, teḥinot in English, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Morning Prayer [for creative joy in labor] (CCAR 1923)

This “Morning Prayer” is found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 12-14. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon.

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Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Additional Morning Prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., creativity, English vernacular prayer, labor

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Morning Prayer (for Older Children) by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (1927)

“Morning Prayer (for Older Children)” by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy is found in The Helpful Manual (Centre of Jewish Science, 1927), p. 27.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Science movement, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, waking

Contributor(s):

Clifton Harby Levy and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Morning Prayer (for Very Young Children) by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (1927)

“Morning Prayer (For Very Young Children)” by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy is found in The Helpful Manual (Centre of Jewish Science, 1927), p. 26.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Science movement, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, waking

Contributor(s):

Clifton Harby Levy and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Leányka reggeli imája | Morning prayer for young girls, by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi (1930)

A morning prayer for young girls composed in Magyar and published in 1930, with English translation.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Magyar vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Chana Deutsch (Magyar translation) and Ferenc Hevesi

Morning Prayer, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

“Morning Prayer” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was shared via the Open Siddur Project’s Discussion Group on Facebook, 15 June 2023.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, waking

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

צֶדֶק טוּב | Tsedeq Tuv, a piyyuṭ by Isaac A. Kahenzade

This is an original Hebrew tehillah/piyyuṭ that I composed in January 2025 for my local Nash Didan (Persian-Azerbaijani-Assyrian-Jewish) community. The composition weaves together classic liturgical motifs, echoing the themes of Psalms 1, Ashrei, and Aleinu, while remaining a distinct, contemporary composition. It may be recited during Pesuqei d’Zimra, as a supplementary reading near the conclusion of a service, or however best its cadence speaks to the heart of the worshipper—be it chanted in the polyphonic chorus of a congregation or whispered in solitary devotion. The piyyut also functions as a Maskilic shibutz “domestication” of the Gathic Avestan manthras—an endeavor inspired by Rav Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s reclamation of universal sacred sparks, clothing ancient wisdom in the living vestments of the Holy Tongue.

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Additional Morning Prayers

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., נאש דידאן Nash Didan, פיוטים piyyuṭim

Contributor(s):

Isaac A. Kahenzade

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