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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Erev Shabbat
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19th century C.E., kindling, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, English Jewry, German Jewry, English vernacular prayer, lamp lighting
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“Prayer before lighting the Sabbath lamp” was written by Wolfgang Wessely in German and translated into English by Miriam Wertheimer. We have transcribed her translation as it was published in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 52-54. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Erev Shabbat
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19th century C.E., חלה ḥallah, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, English Jewry, German Jewry, English vernacular prayer, taking dough
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“Domestic prayer on dividing the dough” was written by an unknown author in German and translated into English by Miriam Wertheimer. We have transcribed her translation as it was published in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 51-52. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (English translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro
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Erev Shabbat
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19th century C.E., Light, kindling, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, shabbat preparation
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“Wenn die Hausfrau an den Vorabenden des Sabaths und der Feiertage die Lichte anzündet” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №13 on pp. 20-21. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (English translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro
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Erev Shabbat
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19th century C.E., חלה ḥallah, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, taking dough, baking ḥallah, צדקה tsedaqah
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“Wenn man Chala nimmt” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №147, on pp. 21-22. . . . |
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Chaya Kaplan-Lester
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Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
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Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer
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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. . . . |
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Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Ecotastrophes
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20th century C.E., eco-conscious, kindling, North America, candle lighting, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid
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“Between the Fires: A Prayer for lighting Candles of Commitment” was composed by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, drawing on traditional midrash about the danger of a Flood of Fire, and the passage from Malachi. . . . |
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Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda
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Erev Shabbat, Friday
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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, Psalm of the Day, Friday, Bohemia, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry, Sixth Day of Creation, Paraliturgical Psalms 93
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This is the prayer for Friday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Friday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . . |
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Rabbi Haviva Ner-David
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Erev Shabbat, Immersion (Purification)
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water
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The following is a meditation I wrote (with the help of my friend Shira Gura, who teaches meditation and Yoga) to be used on Friday before Shabbat at the mikveh. It is based on midrashim related to Shabbat (for example, the notion that we receive an additional soul on Shabbat), as well as meanings behind mikveh in general (for example, the connection between the waters of Creation and the mikveh waters), and on some kavanot (sacred intentions) that came out of the Kabbalah and Ḥassidut movements. There is a strong tradition to write kavanot to use before immersing in the mikveh, since, as Maimonides writes in his Mishneh Torah 11:15, “If a person immerses but without buttressing him or herself [with sacred intention], it is as though he or she has not immersed at all.” . . . |
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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Erev Shabbat, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106), Friday
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interpretive translation, תהלים Psalms, English Translation, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, Psalm of the Day, Friday, Psalms 93, devotional interpretation
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of the Psalm of the Day for Friday (Psalms 93) in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with a transcription of the vocalized text of the Psalm. . . . |
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Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, R' Amichai Lau-Lavie (translation) and Sheikha Ibtisam Maḥameed
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Erev Shabbat, Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession
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kindling, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine, candles, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
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Two mothers, one plea: Now, more than ever, during these days of so much crying, on the day that is sacred to both our religions, Friday, Sabbath Eve Let us light a candle in every home – for peace: A candle to illuminate our future, face to face, A candle across borders, beyond fear. From our family homes and houses of worship Let us light each other up Let these candles be a lighthouse to our spirit Until we all arrive at the sanctuary of peace. . . . |
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Eyal Raviv
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Erev Shabbat, Immersion (Purification)
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North America, all bodies, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, shower ritual, bathing ritual, English vernacular prayer, shabbat preparation
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This is pre-Shabbos reflection that can be done in a shower or bath. Shabbat is a time when I am less focused on my selfish desires and instead my thoughts drift to my place in the larger community and world. I find myself doing some version of this before Shabbos most weeks and am welcome for the time to reflect on truly what it is to cease from lay work and consider the work that needs to be done to make the world a better place. . . . |
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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
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Erev Shabbat, Davvening, Tiqqunei Zohar
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interpretive translation, תפלין tefillin, petiḥah, Openers, Opening Prayers, 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., devotional interpretation, prayers of kabbalists, פתח אליהו Pataḥ Eliyahu, תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying
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Elijah began saying: Lord of the worlds You Who are One and not just a number You are the highest of the highest most hidden of the undisclosed no thought scheme grasps You at all. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Erev Shabbat
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fire, kindling, תחינות tkhines, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
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This is a faithful transcription of the תחנה פון ליכט בענטשין (“Tkhine for Lighting Candles [for Shabbes]”) as it appeared in the Vilna, 1869 edition. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. If you can scan an image of the page from the 1869 edition this was originally copied from, please share your scan with us. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
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Erev Shabbat
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19th century C.E., candle lighting, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Derekh Hashem, divine light, פוקח עברים Pokeaḥ Ivrim, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, dveykut
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The poem, “God Our Light” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 3:8, Marḥeshvan 5606, November 1845, p.379-380. . . . |
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Unknown Author(s), Aharon N. Varady and Rabbi Natan Slifkin
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Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim, Erev Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar, Hekhalot Writings, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Rosh Ḥodesh Readings, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
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animals, hymns of creation, heikhalot literature, Openers, Late Tannaitic, Early Ammoraic, Early Middle Ages, birds, creeping creatures, cosmological, 5th century C.E., 43rd century A.M., ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah
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Talmudic and midrashic sources contain hymns of the creation usually based on homiletic expansions of metaphorical descriptions and personifications of the created world in the Bible. The explicitly homiletic background of some of the hymns in Perek Shira indicates a possible connection between the other hymns and Tannaitic and Amoraic homiletics, and suggests a hymnal index to well-known, but mostly unpreserved, homiletics. The origin of this work, the period of its composition and its significance may be deduced from literary parallels. A Tannaitic source in the tractate Hagiga of the Jerusalem (Hag. 2:1,77a—b) and Babylonian Talmud (Hag. 14b), in hymns of nature associated with apocalyptic visions and with the teaching of ma’aseh merkaba serves as a key to Perek Shira’s close spiritual relationship with this literature. Parallels to it can be found in apocalyptic literature, in mystic layers in Talmudic literature, in Jewish mystical prayers surviving in fourth-century Greek Christian composition, in Heikhalot literature, and in Merkaba mysticism. The affinity of Perek Shira with Heikhalot literature, which abounds in hymns, can be noted in the explicitly mystic introduction to the seven crowings of the cock — the only non-hymnal text in the collection — and the striking resemblance between the language of the additions and that of Shi’ur Koma and other examples of this literature. In Seder Rabba de-Bereshit, a Heikhalot tract, in conjunction with the description of ma’aseh bereshit, there is a clear parallel to Perek Shira’s praise of creation and to the structure of its hymns. The concept reflected in this source is based on a belief in the existence of angelic archetypes of created beings who mediate between God and His creation, and express their role through singing hymns. As the first interpretations of Perek Shira also bear witness to its mystic character and angelologic significance, it would appear to be a mystical chapter of Heikhalot literature, dating from late Tannaitic — early Amoraic period, or early Middle Ages. . . . |
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