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

“Prayer for Friday night” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 169-170. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 75-76. The UK edition also includes the detail that this prayer was written when the family lived in Teignmouth, Devon (1828-1840).

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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

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Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Sabbath Eve, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Prayer for the Sabbath Eve” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 230-233. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 138-140.

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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

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Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Our Creed, a Reform movement adaptation of Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan’s Yigdal by Rabbi J. Leonard Levy (1902)

This Reform movement catechism by Rabbi J. Leonard Levy was first published as “Our Creed” in The Children’s Service for Use in Religious Schools (1902). In the second edition from 1904, it is found on page 207. There, Rabbi Levy’s verse is described as a “translation,” which from the credit of the melody to “Leoni” (Meyer Lyon, 1751-1797) might lead one to consider it a revised Reform movement adaptation of some setting of Thomas Oliver’s “God of Abraham” (ca. 1771, itself a Christian adaptation of Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan’s “Yigdal”). A cross-comparison however reveals this is not the case. Over at the Hymnology Archive, Chris Fenner uncovered a rhymed English derivation of Yigdal by Newton Mann (1836-1926) made at the request of Rabbi Max Landsberg (1845-1927).

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Arvit l'Shabbat, Morning Baqashot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, credal hymn, doctrinal, English vernacular prayer, פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and J. Leonard Levy

Mogen owaus | Magen Avot, a paraliturgical adaptation by Lise Tarlau (1907)

This paraliturgical reflection of the prayer “Magen Avot” by Lise Tarlau (“Mogen owaus”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 79.

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, מגן אבות magen avot, paraliturgical magen avot, paraliturgical reflections

Contributor(s):

Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Sabbath, a paraliturgical berakhah aḥat meʼayin shevaʼ (CCAR 1923)

“The Sabbath” is the fifth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 22-25. 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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Arvit l'Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ברכה אחת מעין שבע berakhah aḥat me'ayin sheva', English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical berakhah aḥat me'ayin sheva'

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

A Prayer for Protection from Oppression and Persecution (CCAR 1924)

This is an untitled prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924), pp. 68-69, as a reading between the Shema and the Amidah. As a prayer for protection it fits as a paraliturgical haskivenu, and in New York City, it makes sense in the context of the terrifying news of mass-murder, rape, and genocide being reported from Ukraine at the time. (Find Nokhem Shtif’s “פּאָגראָמען אין אוקראַיִנע : די צײַט פֿון דער פֿרײַװיליקער אַרמײ (The Pogroms in Ukraine: the Period of the Volunteer Army)” (1923) offered in Yiddish and in English translation at In Geveb.) The Ukrainian context of this prayer is further underscored in that the prayer is not found in the 1918 revised Union Prayer Book, but in the later 1924 edition. It may have been unique to Congregation Emanu-El in New York City, who compiled this version of the Union Prayer Book for radio listeners joining their service.

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Congregation & Community, Arvit l'Shabbat, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionism, English vernacular prayer, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, paraliturgical hashkivenu, Pogroms in Ukraine 1918-1924, prayers following pogroms, protection

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

תִּגְדַּל | Tigdal, by Rabbi Oded Mazor

A companion to the classic piyyut, Yigdal.

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Arvit l'Shabbat, Morning Baqashot

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal

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Yehudah B. Cohn (translation) and Oded Mazor

עמידה קצרה לליל שבת | Short Amidah for Leil Shabbat, by Rabbi Oded Mazor

A short amidah for the Friday evening service for Shabbat.

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., עמידה amidah, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, Needing Translation (into English)

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Oded Mazor

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