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Self-examination for every night [version 1], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Self-Examination for Every Night” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings” (1852), pp. 165-168.

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Bedtime Shema, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, מוסר mussar, self-reflection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Self-examination [version 2], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Self-examination” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings (1853), pp. 97-98.

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Bedtime Shema, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, מוסר mussar, self-reflection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

“Family evening prayer” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 156-159. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 167-169.

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Bedtime Shema

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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)

Evening Prayer (I thank Thee), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Evening Prayer (I thank Thee)” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 186-188. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 107-109.

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Bedtime Shema

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

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed) [version 1], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed)” [version 1] by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 221-222. Another version of the prayer (“Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed) [version 2]“) with some lines missing and others added, appears in the UK edition on pages 95-97.

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Bedtime Shema

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

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed) [version 2], by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Evening Prayer (Another day hath passed)” [version 2] by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853), pp. 95-97.

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Bedtime Shema

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

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Every Night, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Prayer for every night” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 223-224. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on page 136.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, wards against excessive pride, writing

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

O Uncreated Holy One! – a hymn on Praise and Thanksgiving by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“O uncreated Holy One!” by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (ca.1800-1876), first published in 1842, appears under the subject “Praise and Thanksgiving” as Hymn 46 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 49.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., AABB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, thanksgiving

Contributor(s):

Caroline de Litchfield Harby, Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Angels’ Vigil, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1848)

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.

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Bedtime Shema, Dreaming

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, Anglo Jewry, British Jewry, dreams, English Romanticism, Prayers as poems, sleep

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Description of my Dreams, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1848)

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.

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Bedtime Shema, Dreaming

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, Anglo Jewry, British Jewry, dreams, English Romanticism, Prayers as poems, sleep

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Night Prayer, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

A prayer before going to sleep at night.

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Bedtime Shema

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

Contributor(s):

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prière du soir pour un enfant | A Child’s Evening Prayer, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

An evening, bedtime prayer for children.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, children's prayers, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Song, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1853)

“Song” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 65.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, invisible sun, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

“Evening 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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Bedtime Shema

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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)

גַּמָּדֵי לָיִל | Gnomes of the Night, a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (ca. 1894)

The poem “Gamodei Layil” (Gnomes of the Night) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, ca. 1894.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., animistic spirits, creatures of the night, entering magical territory, evening spirits, Jewish faeries, magical beings, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, night, romanticism, שדים sheydim, װילדע חיה vilde ḥayye, where the wild things are, whimsy

Contributor(s):

the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ben Aronin, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Night Prayer [after Work], by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

“Night Prayer” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 9-10.

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Bedtime Shema, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical hashkivenu, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, West Central Girls' Club

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

From Psalm Ⅳ, a prayer-poem for Shabbat parashat Ki Tétsei by Alice Montefiore Lucas (1898)

“From Psalm Ⅳ” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—Ⅼ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Ki Tétsei) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 107.

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Bedtime Shema, Parashat Ki Tétsei

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, Psalms 4, פרשת כי־תצא parashat Ki Tetsei

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alice Montefiore Lucas

A Bedtime Prayer at Night, by Dinah Julia Levi (1900)

This untitled “evening mediation,” a bedtime prayer, was written by Dinah Julia Levi née Emanuel and included by her daughter, Annie Josephine Levi, in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 74-75.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Dinah Julia Emanuel Levi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Bedtime Prayer for the Young, by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)

This untitled “Evening Meditation for the Young,” a bedtime prayer, was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 137.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Annie Josephine Levi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

An Evening Meditation, by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)

This untitled “Evening Meditation” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 108-109.

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Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Annie Josephine Levi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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