An earlier form of the prayer known as Aleinu, as found in the esoteric Jewish literature of the first millennium CE. . . . “Morgens und Abends nach allen Gebeten,” a paraliturgical Aleinu, 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 №62 on pp. 89-90. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №64 on pp. 112-113. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №67 on pp. 117-118. . . . “Rejoice in God, our mighty Rock,” by Rabbi Moritz Mayer, published in 1856, appears under the subject “Pentecost” as Hymn 203 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), pp. 200-201. . . . The prayer, Aleinu, as read by Sepharadim, with an English translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool. . . . Tags: 3rd century C.E., 40th century A.M., על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh, עלינו Aleinu, censored prayers under Christendom, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), Jewish identity, מלכויות malkhuyot, standing posture, testament to divine reality, עדות witnessing The Aleinu prayer with an English translation of Dr. Jakob Petuchowski. The end of “She’hu noteh shamayim” and the beginning of “Al Ken” contain a revisionist (or “redemptive”) paraliturgical translation. . . . Aleinu, as rewritten in Hebrew and English for Ḥavurat Shalom, Somerville, Massachusetts. . . . These are a series of kavvanot prepared by Rabbi Emanuel S. Goldsmith (1935-2024), z”l, for a Shaḥarit service containing the call to prayer (Barkhu), the blessings preceding the Shema, tthe conclusion of the Amidah, before and after the Torah reading service, and Aleinu. Rabbi Ben Newman, who shared these kavvanot in eulogy for Rabbi Goldsmith in a Facebook post, writes, “My dear teacher, friend, and mentor Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Goldsmith died on Friday. He was an amazing man who taught me a lot about how to be a rabbi, a Reconstructionist, a liturgist, philosopher of religion, and Yiddishist. He also was the “head rabbi” who officiated at my wedding to Rabbi Shoshana Leis….I had him write out for me [these kavvanot] when I substituted for him leading at Congregation Mvakshe Derekh in Scarsdale, NY, 20 years ago as a student rabbi.” . . . A “redemptive translation” of Aleinu emphasizing universalist Jewish values. . . . Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh, עלינו Aleinu, English Translation, interpretive translation, Late Antiquity, North America, particularism and universalism, Rosh Hashanah, tolerance of difference This version of the Aleinu recognizes that all nations play a role in God’s plan for humanity. . . . Leon Gunther presents a proposal for a revision of the controversial line of the traditional Aleinu prayer, shehem mishtaḥavim l’hevel varik (“For they worship ephemera and emptiness, and pray to a god who cannot save,” a combination of Isaiah 30:7 and Isaiah 45:20). . . . A paraliturgical reflection of the prayer Aleinu for a shame resilience practice . . . |
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