“Prayer for the Sabbath morn” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 234-236. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 140-142.

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Saturday

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

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

It is the Solemn Sabbath Day, a hymn for Shabbat by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“It is the solemn Sabbath day,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Sabbath” as Hymn 55 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 57-58.

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Saturday

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] Am Sabbath, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)

A paraliturgical prayer for Shabbat, offered by Fanny Neuda from her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German.

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Saturday

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemia, Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical Psalms 92, paraliturgical teḥinot, Psalm of the Day, Saturday, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] for the Sabbath Day, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

“[Prayer] For the Sabbath Day” is one of thirty prayers appearing in Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s collection of tehinot, Hours of Devotion (1866), of uncertain provenance and which he may have written.

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Saturday

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical Psalms 92, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for those who are unavoidably prevented from keeping the Sabbath, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

“Prayer for those who are unavoidably prevented from keeping the Sabbath” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 20-21.

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Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, West Central Girls' Club

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

“Prayer Song,” a hymn by Stephen Hanan Kaplan from the play, David Dances (1975)

A prayer written for the play David Dances (1997) by playwright Stephen Mo Hanan.

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, הללו־יה hallelu-yah, hymns, כוונות kavvanot, Openers, המשכן the Mishkan

Contributor(s):

Stephen Hanan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

עמידה לשחרית שבת | The Amidah for Shabbat (Morning), by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

The Amidah for the Shabbat Shaḥarit service in Reb Zalman’s devotional English adaptation, set side-by-side with the corresponding Hebrew liturgy.

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., devotional interpretation, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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