Meditation on the Holy Sabbath, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

A prayer reflecting on the meaning of the Sabbath day. . . .

Categories: Minḥah l'Shabbat

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

Contributor(s): Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayers] for the sanctification of life (on Shabbat), by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (1916)

Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayers “For the Sanctification of Life” were first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, pages 87-88. Both of these prayers appear to have been adapted from a Shabbat service. As some of the language makes reference to the coming week, it feels apposite for an afternoon Shabbat minḥah service. . . .

Categories: Minḥah l'Shabbat

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, paraliturgical amidah, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s): Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

עמידה לשבת מנחה | Amidah for Shabbat Minḥah, translation with an alternative “atah eḥad” prayer by Dr. Jakob Petuchowski (1966)

This is the scholar Dr. Jakob Petuchowski’s translation of the Amidah for Shabbat Minḥah from his Shabbat Minḥah prayer-pamphlet (1966), p.5r-13r. . . .

Categories: Minḥah l'Shabbat

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., עמידה amidah, Minḥah, paraliturgical amidah, redemptive translation, revisionist translation

Contributor(s): Jakob Petuchowski (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Saturday Afternoon Request, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

A prayer-poem supplication for the afternoon of Shabbat. . . .

Categories: Minḥah l'Shabbat

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., dreaming, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, eros, Prayers as poems, quiet, Return to Eden, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat

מִרְיָם קִבְּלָה תּוֹרָה מִסִּינַי | Miriam received the Torah from Sinai, by Rabbah Rinat Safania

A summary of the lineage of the Mesorah, as it passed through generations of Israelite and Jewish women. . . .

Categories: Sefirat ha-Omer, Mussar (Ethical Teachings), Minḥah l'Shabbat

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Avot and Imahot, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism

Contributor(s): Rabbi Lior Nevo (translation) and Rabbah Rinat Safania

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