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תהלים כ״ה | Psalms 25, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Psalms 25 in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009) for days on which Taḥanun is practiced after the morning Amidah.

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Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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Alphabetic Acrostic, devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, loneliness, Psalms 25, social anxiety

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and the Mesorah (TaNaKh)

תהלים ט״ו | Psalms 15, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Psalms 15 is read on special days of festive joy in place of Taḥanun. Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Psalms 15 in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with the verses comprising the Psalm. –Aharon N. Varady

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Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, middot, Psalms 15, the Holy Mountain, virtuous attributes

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and David ben Yishai (traditional attribution)

תהלים ו׳ | Psalms 6, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of the prayer Psalms 6 in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009).

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Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, personal salvation, prayers for intervention, prayers for rescue, Psalms 6

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and the Mesorah (TaNaKh)

תחנון | Taḥanun, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

My God!
my soul is Yours
my body is Your servant,
take pity on what You have created;
my soul is Yours
and my body is Yours,
God help us for Your sake.
We come to You
because we want to honor Your reputation.
Help us in our moral struggle
for the sake of Your reputation;
because You are kind and compassionate.
Forgive us,
for there is so much we need to be forgiven for.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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English Translation, interpretive translation, תחנונים taḥanunim

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) and Unknown

תשלום לחצי קדיש בין תחנון לאשרי ליחיד (סדר רב עמרם) | Replacement for the Ḥatsi Ḳaddish between Taḥanun and Ashrei for an individual praying alone or without a minyan, from Seder Rav ȝAmram

In Jewish liturgy, some passages are dəvarim she-bi-qdushah, passages that require public communal prayer. Most famous among these are the Qaddish, Barkhu, and Qədushah. But people are not always able to pray in a community! In liturgical history both ancient and modern many different tashlumim (replacements) for these texts when praying individually have been suggested. The following is the Ḥatsi Qaddish between Taḥanun and Ashrei for an individual from Seder Rav ȝAmram, the oldest known full siddur. Much of the content is from the hekhalot literature or the Gemara, often demonstrating girsaot not otherwise known.

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Ḳaddish, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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English Translation, geonic period, Geonic prayers, חצי קדיש ḥatsi ḳaddish, Without a Minyan, Solo, תשלומים tashlumim

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Amram ben Rav Sheshna

יָהּ, אָנָה אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Yah, Where shall I find you?, a piyyuṭ by Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)

A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.”

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Purim Qatan, Motsaei Shabbat, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., alienation, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, dveykut

Contributor(s):

Nina Davis Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

🆕 תְּפִלָּה מְעֻלָּה בְּיוֹתֵר כּוֹלֶלֶת כ״ד דְּבָרִים | A Very Good Prayer with Twenty-Four Things in It, from an Italian-rite maḥzor (1446)

A personal petition in rhymed prose from the introduction to Vat. Ross. 499, an Italian-rite maḥzor from the year 1446 with a lot of very cool liturgical content in it. Frankly, the title drew me in.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Italian Jewry, Nusaḥ Italḳi, rhymed prose, Roman minhag, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown

א דוּדעלע (אַיֵּה אֶמְצָאֶךָּ)‏ | A Dudele (Where shall I seek you?), by Rabbi Levi Yitsḥaq of Berditchev (ca. 18th c.)

A profound song invoking divine presence.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Purim Qatan, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Motsaei Shabbat

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18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, creator within creation, חסידות Ḥasidut, הבדלות havdalot, Hebrew translation, non-dual theology, panentheism, תשובה teshuvah, Yiddish songs, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Oh! Turn At Meek Devotion’s Call, a hymn on “Piety” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Oh! turn at meek devotion’s call,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Piety” as Hymn 24 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 28.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, hymns, South Carolina, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Though Sorrows May be Multiplied, a hymn on “Obedience to the Will of God” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Though sorrows may be multiplied,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Obedience to the Will of God” as Hymn 27 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 30-31.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, hymns, South Carolina, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Man of the World! Wilt Thou Not Pause, a hymn on “Piety” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Man of the world! wilt thou not pause,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Piety” as Hymn 26 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 29-30.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., AABB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, hymns, South Carolina, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

How Long Will Man In Pleasure Merged, a hymn on “Piety” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“How long will man in pleasure merged,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Piety” as Hymn 25 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 28-29.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, hymns, South Carolina, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Rebuke Me Not Nor Chasten Me (Psalms 38), a hymn on “Confidence in God” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Rebuke me not, nor chasten me (Psalm XXXVIII),” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Confidence in God” as Hymn 29 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 32-33.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, paraliturgical Psalms 38, South Carolina, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Oh! How Shall Man With God Contend (Job 9), a hymn on “Obedience to the Will of God” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Oh! how shall man with God contend (Job Chap. IX),” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Obedience to the Will of God” as Hymn 28 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 31-32.

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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, hymns, South Carolina, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אָכֵן ה׳ | Akhen Hashem, a baqashah of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (ca. 1920s)

This is a prayer offered by the Piacezna Rebbe, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943) and likely written down sometime in the 1920s before it was printed among other letters and writings in his sefer Derekh haMelekh (1931). The prayer, vocalized from the 2011 Feldheim edition and translated into English, was circulated online via the Lost Princess Initiative of Rabbi Yaakov Klein (Eilecha) beginning 25 May 2023.

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Purim Qatan, Motsaei Shabbat, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, בקשות Baqashot, חסידות Ḥasidut, panentheism

Contributor(s):

Yaakov Klein (translation), Kalonymus Kalman Shapira and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Daily Revelation, a paraliturgical taḥanun (CCAR 1923)

“Daily Revelation is found early on in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 19-21. 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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🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחנונים taḥanunim

Contributor(s):

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

Man Is Here for the Sake of Others, by Albert Einstein (1930) as excerpted by Rabbi Morrison David Bial

“Man Is Here for the Sake of Others,” a short excerpt from a longer essay by Albert Einstein, was included by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in his collection of supplemental prayers and texts for personal prayer and synagogue services: An Offering of Prayer (Temple Sinai of Summit, New Jersey, 1962). The full text of Einstein’s essay appeared under the title “What I Believe” in Forum and Century 84 (October 1930), no. 4, p. 193-194. David E. Rowe and Robert Schulman (in Einstein on Politics 2007, p. 226) note, “The text was reproduced several times under the title ‘The World as I See It,’ most notably in Mein Weltbild and Ideas and Opinions, and in 1932 the German League of Human Rights released a phonograph recording of Einstein reading a slightly variant version entitled ‘Confession of Belief.'”

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Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week Readings, 🌐 International Workers' Day (May 1st), 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), 🌐 Human Rights Day (December 10th)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anti-fascist, cosmic religion, democracy, determinism, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), Openers

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial, Albert Einstein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הִנֵּה שָׁם אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Where We Can Find Yah, a prayer-poem inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (Song Offerings, 1912) by Eugene Kohn (1945)

“Where We Can Find God,” a prayer-poem inspired by passages appearing in David Frishman’s Hebrew translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali.

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Purim Qatan, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Motsaei Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, cosmic religion, is it Sikh or Hassidic?, Prayers as poems, universalist prayers

Contributor(s):

Eugene Kohn, David Frischmann (translation), Rabindranath Tagore and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer — On Seeking for God, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“Prayer — On Seeking for God” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 22, from where this prayer was transcribed.

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Purim Qatan, Davvening, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Hashem is Everywhere! — a song by Rabbi Yosef Goldstein (1972)

The pedagogical song “Hashem is Everywhere!” by Rabbi Yosef Goldstein (1928-2013) can be found in the context of his story, “Where is Hashem?,” the second track on his album מדות טובות Jewish Ethics Through Story and Song (Menorah Records 1972). In the instructions to reciting the lyrics, the singer points first to the six cardinal directions and lastly, by pointing inward towards one’s self. In so doing, one explicitly affirms the idea of the divine within ourselves and implicitly, in each other.

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🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, Purim Qatan, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Motsaei Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., affirmations, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, children's education, circle drawing, English vernacular prayer, חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, panentheism, Pedagogical songs, Yiddish translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Yosef Goldstein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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