Benyamim Sedaka’s English translations of devotional prayers for weekdays and Shabbat . . .
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Contributor(s): Benyamim Sedaka
Categories:  the Shabbat Service | Tags:  Samaritan, Needing Transcription, Nusaḥ haSamerim, Needing Source Images
Contributor(s): Gabriel Wasserman, Aharon ben Yosef of Constantinople and Karaite Jews of America
Categories: the Shabbat Service, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat | Tags: piyyutim, Qedushah, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Byzantium, Byzantine Empire, Karaism, Constantinople, the 7th Day, Acrostic signature 
Loading Source (Hebrew) Translation (English) אֶשָּׂא לְמֵרָחוֹק דֵּעִי אֲתַנֶּה | צִדְקוֹת אֵלִי וּמוֹשִׁיעִי בְּשֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים כִּלָּה כֹּל | מַלְכִּי וְרֹעִי קהל: וַיְבָרֶךְ אֱלֹהִים | אֶת יוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי. (בראשית ב:ג) I will speak my mind regarding [matters] long ago, I will declare the righteous deeds of my God and my rescuer: In six days He . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Heinrich Heine and Margaret Armour (translator)
Categories: the Shabbat Service, Leil Shabbat | Tags: 19th century C.E., food, 57th century A.M., Shekhinah, Lekha Dodi, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, Elysium, lycanthropy, German orientalism, German romanticism, Sardonic poetry 
“Prinzessin Sabbat” by Heinrich Heine, in Romanzero III: Hebraeische Melodien, (“Princess Shabbat,” in Romanzero III, Hebrew Melodies.), 1851 was translated into English by Margaret Armour (1860-1943), The Works of Heinrich Heine vol. 12: Romancero: Book III, Last Poems (1891). We have replaced “schalet” (unchanged in Armour’s translation) with cholent. . . . Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories: Reading Cycle, Tehilim (Psalms), Morning Torah Reading, Minḥah l'Shabbat | Tags: Psalms, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Revival 
This is a system that seeks to create a Haftarah-like system for the reading of Psalms, linking their meaning to the meaning of the reading or the Shabbat of that day. Like the Haftarah system, there are special psalms for the Shabbatot leading up to and following the Ninth of Av, as well as specific psalms for Rosh Chodesh and the special Shabbatot. Unlike the Haftarah system, if two portions are read together or a special Shabbat occurs on a day when another reading is done, both psalms are read (since psalms are generally shorter and easier to read than prophetic texts.) . . . Contributor(s): Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Kabbalat Shabbat, Leil Pesaḥ, Shavuot, 7th Day of Pesaḥ, Sukkot | Tags: Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer 
Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . . Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin
Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat | Tags: kindling, gateway, first person, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
Shabbat happens, If I let it. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Pesaḥ, Ḥanukkah, the Shabbat Service, Sefirat HaOmer, Shavuot, Tehilim (Psalms), Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), Sukkot, Slavery & Captivity | Tags: acrostic, labyrinth, cyclical, barley, wheat, first fruits, anxiety, Psalms 67, raḥav, shalmah, a red ribbon, walled cities, captives, אנא בכח Ana b'Koaḥ, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic 
Psalm 67 is a priestly blessing for all the peoples of the earth to be sustained by the earth’s harvest (yevulah), and it is a petition that all humanity recognize the divine nature (Elohim) illuminating the world. Composed of seven verses, the psalm is often visually depicted as a seven branched menorah. There are 49 words in the entire psalm, and in the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l there is one word for each day of the Sefirat haOmer. Similarly, the fifth verse has 49 letters and each letter can be used as a focal point for meditating on the meaning of the day in its week in the journey to Shavuot, the festival of weeks (the culmination of the barley harvest), and the festival of oaths (shevuot) in celebration of receiving the Torah. Many of the themes of Psalm 67 are repeated in the prayer Ana b’Koaḥ, which also has 49 words, and which are also used to focus on the meaning of each day on the cyclical and labyrinthine journey towards Shavuot. . . . Contributor(s): Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair
Categories: Mishlei (Proverbs), Leil Shabbat | Tags: Feminism, love, eros, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Eyshet Ḥayil, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael 
Peri and Alex Sinclair’s adaptation of the traditional Eishet Ḥayil, replacing a number of verses with ones selected from Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs/Canticles), Genesis, and elsewhere in Mishlei (Proverbs). . . . Contributor(s): Mark X. Jacobs
Categories: Leil Shabbat, Rosh haShanah for Ilanot (Fruit Trees) a/k/a Tu biShvat | Tags: 20th century C.E., eco-conscious, North America, kiddush, 58th century A.M., Teva Learning Center 
We call to sukkat shalom, the shelter of peace, all of our various selves To rest from the contortion of social life and the demands of others. We liberate ourselves and each other from roles and titles labels and closets positions and pretendings internalized oppressions and oppressive projections hierarchies and competition. . . . Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin
Categories: the Shabbat Service, Leil Shabbat | Tags: food, bread, challah, yom tov, Kolot Chayeinu, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
Trisha Arlin shares “Motzi”, a kavanah (intention) for the blessing, Hamotzi Lehem Min Ha’aretz, over challah. Describing the kavanah she writes that it’s, “based on Rabbi Ellen Lippmann’s tradition on having us create a chain of touch around room that leads to and from the challah, which she then explains as both exemplifying the connection created when people eat together and the chain of work that went to creating the challah itself.” . . . נשמת כל חי | Nishmat Kol Ḥai: The Breath of All Life (for Shabbat morning) by Rabbi Rachel BarenblatContributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat | Tags: Breath, interconnectedness, interbreathing, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai 
…if we could discard differences: human, would not be enough to thank You. . . . Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
Categories: the Shabbat Service, Minḥah l'Shabbat | Tags: eros, dreaming, teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Return to Eden, quiet 
Help me to silence Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin
Categories: Motsei Shabbat | Tags: Kolot Chayeinu, first person, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical havdalah, havdalot Three short havdallah meditations that culminate in a havdallah prayer/blessing. . . . Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
Categories: Motsei Shabbat | Tags: teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical havdalah, havdalot 
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