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This is an archive of prayers for using during the Torah Reading service, after the Torah and Haftarah are read but before the scrolls are returned to the ark. This section contains many “Mi sheberakh” prayers offered on behalf of entities and concerns beyond the immediate reach of the praying congregation.

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אַחֵֽינוּ | Aḥeinu (Our siblings)

“Aḥeinu” is the final prayer in a set of supplications recited on Mondays and Thursdays as the Torah scroll is being prepared to be returned to the Aron. The prayer is first found with variations in wording in the surviving manuscripts of the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.). . . .

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, captives, Distress, Geonic prayers

Contributor(s): Anonymous (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

בְּרָכָה לְכׇּל־הַקָּהָל הַקָּדוֹשׁ הַזֶּה | Mi she’Berakh for this Holy Congregation

The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of one’s own congregation. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags: Aramaic, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s): David Levi (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

בְּרָכָה לְכׇּל־הַקְּהִלּוֹת | Mi she’Berakh for All the Holy Congregations

The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of Jewish congregations worldwide. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags: Aramaic, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s): David Levi (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Jewish Militiamen of Suriname, by David Hizkiahu Baruch Louzada (ca. 1806)

This is a prayer composed by David Hizkiahu Baruch Louzada (1750–1825) for Jewish Militiamen in Suriname mustered in the event of Maroon attacks. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Dutch Jewry, מי שברך mi sheberakh, slavery, South America, Spanish-Portuguese, Suriname

Contributor(s): David Hizkiahu Baruch Louzada, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Prayer for the Government [of the United States of America], by David Nunes Carvalho (Reformed Society of Israelites, Charleston, South Carolina, 1825)

This historically significant prayer for the government of the United States of America offered by the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.), appears in The Sabbath service and miscellaneous prayers, adopted by the Reformed society of Israelites, founded in Charleston, S.C., November 21, 1825 (1830, Bloch: 1916). . . .

Categories: Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, South Carolina, United States

Contributor(s): David Nunes Carvalho, Reformed Society of Israelites and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אָב הָרַחֲמִים שׁוֹכֵן מְרוֹמִים | Av haRaḥamim Shokhein Meromim, a prayer for the martyred during the First Crusade & Rhineland massacres

A prayer for those martyred in the First Crusade and Rhineland Massacres, and by extension, all subsequent pogroms up until and including the Holocaust. . . .

Categories: Shavuot, After the Aliyot, Tishah b'Av, Pogroms & Genocide

Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., First Crusade, People's Crusade, prayers following pogroms, Rhineland Massacres

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

ברכה לקהל | Blessing of the Congregation, translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool

A “mi sheberakh” prayer on behalf of the persons attending the prayer and/or Torah reading service. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags: מי שברך mi sheberakh, הקהל the ḳahal

Contributor(s): David de Sola Pool and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)

Prayer for the Congregation and the Government, by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1895)

A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s): Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפלה בעד שלום המדינה | Prayer for the Welfare of the Government and Country of the United States of America, by Avraham Hyman Charlap (1912)

A prayer for the government offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . .

Categories: Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., civic prayers, democratic process, United States

Contributor(s): Alan Belsky (translation) and אברהם היימאן חרלאפ

Prayer for Yisrael and the Congregation, by Rabbi Joseph Miller (1927)

A prayer on behalf of one’s congregation and the worldwide community of Israelites. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., diaspora, English vernacular prayer, Immigration Act of 1924, National Origins Act, הקהל the ḳahal

Contributor(s): Joseph Miller and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלָּה בְּעַד הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה | Prayer for the Government, by Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg (1927)

The prayer for the government familiar to all Conservative movement congregations, as written by Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg with an English translation by Rabbi Tim Bernard. . . .

Categories: Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Conservative, Nusaḥ Masorti, United States

Contributor(s): Tim Bernard (translation), Louis Ginzberg and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפילה לשלום מדינת ישראל | Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel, by Rabbi Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog (1948)

The Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel was composed by Rabbi Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog, edited by S.Y. Agnon, and first published in the newspaper Ha-Tsofeh on 20 September 1948. . . .

Categories: Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, משיח Moshiaḥ, National Religious Zionist, Zionist Prayers

Contributor(s): Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog, Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Kavvanot for a Shaḥarit Service, by Rabbi Emanuel S. Goldsmith (ca. 2003)

These are a series of kavvanot prepared by Rabbi Emanuel S. Goldsmith (1935-2024), z”l, for a Shaḥarit service containing the call to prayer (Barkhu), the blessings preceding the Shema, tthe conclusion of the Amidah, before and after the Torah reading service, and Aleinu. Rabbi Ben Newman, who shared these kavvanot in eulogy for Rabbi Goldsmith in a Facebook post, writes, “My dear teacher, friend, and mentor Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Goldsmith died on Friday. He was an amazing man who taught me a lot about how to be a rabbi, a Reconstructionist, a liturgist, philosopher of religion, and Yiddishist. He also was the “head rabbi” who officiated at my wedding to Rabbi Shoshana Leis….I had him write out for me [these kavvanot] when I substituted for him leading at Congregation Mvakshe Derekh in Scarsdale, NY, 20 years ago as a student rabbi.” . . .

Categories: Before the Aliyot, Barkhu, After the Aliyot, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, Aleinu, Birkat Ahavah

Tags: עלינו Aleinu, blessings prior to the shema, English vernacular prayer, כוונות kavvanot, paraliturgical barkhu, paraliturgical birkat ahavah, paraliturgical priestly blessing, Reconstructionist Jewry, שמע shema, Yiddish translation

Contributor(s): Emanuel S. Goldsmith and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ לְהַתָּרַת עֲגוּנוֹת וּמְסֹרְבוֹת גֵּט | Mi she’Berakh for the Release of Agunot and Women Denied a Writ of Divorce, by Dr. Yael Levine (2006)

“Mi she-Berakh Prayer for Agunot and Women who are Denied a Writ of Divorce (mesorvot get)” was written by Dr. Yael Levine in the summer of 2006 and first published in the journal De’ot in advance of Purim 2007. The Hebrew version of the prayer was subsequently reprinted in the monumental Sefer ha-Shabbat, edited by Yonadav Kaploun and issued by Yediot Aharonot in 2011 (p. 260). The English translation was first published in The Jerusalem Post 16 March 2016 (Comment & Features), p. 13. The Hebrew annotation of the sources appeared already in the initial article in De’ot, and was subsequently published, inter alia, in an article published on kipa.co.il on 13 March 2019. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, 🌐 Agunah Day (Adar 13), Slavery & Captivity

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., agunot, divorce, מסרבות גט mesorvot get, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s): Yael Levine

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ | Mi sheBerakh for Victims of Slavery, by Rabbi Joshua Boettiger (2009)

We are grateful to Rabbi Joshua Boettinger and Rabbis for Human Rights–North America (RHR-NA) for sharing the following petitionary prayer, A Misheberakh for Victims of Slavery. Originally published by RHR-NA on their website in 2009, the prayer attends to the desperate need to eradicate all forms of slavery that persist today, especially in advance of the holiday celebrating our Z’man Cheruteinu, the season of our freedom, every Spring, every Pesaḥ. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag, Slavery & Captivity

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., human trafficking, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Needing Vocalization, North America, slavery

Contributor(s): Joshua Boettiger and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

מי שברך לחיילי צה״ל | Mi sheBerakh for the Welfare of Israel Defense Forces Soldiers, by Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1956); amended by Dr. Alex Sinclair (2012)

The prayer for the welfare of IDF soldiers by Rabbi Shlomo Goren, with additional text as added by Dr. Alex Sinclair emphasizing our desire for soldiers to engage in righteous and ethical conduct in accord with the IDF code of conduct. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., צה״ל IDF, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, מי שברך mi sheberakh, military, Progressive Zionism, Religious Zionism

Contributor(s): Alex Sinclair (emendation), Shlomo Goren and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ | Mi sheBerakh for United States Military War Veterans, by Hinda Tzivia Eisen

A “mi sheberakh” prayer for U.S. war veterans on the shabbat preceding Veterans Day (November 11). . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 Veterans Day (11 November), Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., מי שברך mi sheberakh, military, United States

Contributor(s): Cantor Hinda Labovitz

מי שברך לתלמידים היוצאים לחופשת הקיץ | A Mi sheBerakh prayer for students leaving school for their summer break, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried

A mi sheberakh prayer by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried for the parents of students leaving school for their summer break. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, After the Aliyot

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Beit Tefillah Yisraeli, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): Esteban Gottfried

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ לְפִדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִם | Mi sheBerakh for the redemption of those in captivity (or whose whereabouts are unknown)

This mi sheberakh was published by the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth in June 2014, as “Prayer Issued for Missing Israeli Teenagers,” writing: “The prayer…currently being recited across Israel for missing teenagers Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, was issued today to Rabbanim of the United Hebrew Congregations by Chief Rabbi Mirvis.” Recitation of this psalm and mi sheberakh seem appropriate to me in the case of unconscionable, immoral, and unjust state policies that separate children from their caregivers. To help fulfill the mitsvah of ransoming captives, please contribute to funds paying out bail bonds and demonstrate your opposition to these policies. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Slavery & Captivity

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., abduction, Arabic translation, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Needing Translation (into Arabic), געולה ge'ulah (redemption)

Contributor(s): Ephraim Mirvis, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and Unknown Author(s)

תפילה למצביעי המדינה | Prayer for the Electorate, by David Zvi Kalman (2016)

A prayer for the electorate to be recited together with the Prayer for Government on the Shabbat before an election (federal, state, or local). . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Elections & Voting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, democracy, Philadelphia, תחינות teḥinot, United States, United States General Election 2016, voting

Contributor(s): David Zvi Kalman

מי שברך למיני פשעי שנאה | Mi sheBerakh for Hate Crimes and Bigotry, by Isaac Gantwerk-Mayer (2017)

From resurgent neo-fascist movements to religious extremist attacks, hate crimes are on the rise all over the world right now. At times like this many people live in fear – fear of being attacked or maligned, physical, mental or emotional. Hatred is not new to the Jewish people, but traditionally it was considered “just the way it is.” As Americans, we should believe better. The midrash (Devarim Rabbah 5:10) says that hateful speech kills three – the speaker, the listener, and the subject. This Mi Sheberakh was written as a prayer for all those of every people and nation that are affected by hatred and bigotry. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Terror

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Hate Crimes, מי שברך mi sheberakh, North America

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

מי שברך לאסונות טבע | Mi sheBerakh for Natural Disasters, by Isaac Gantwerk-Mayer

A Mi Sheberakh prayer for those affected by natural disasters. This prayer uses many standard liturgical phrases in a new context to stress that God, while full of great power, is not a God of destruction but one of peace and life. Quoting the famous vision of Elijah at Ḥorev, this prayer is for those who seek comfort and tranquility from their God. . . .

Categories: Dangerous Storms & Floods, After the Aliyot, Drought & Wildfire, Earthquakes & Tsunamis

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., מי שברך mi sheberakh, Natural Disasters, North America

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תפילה לשלום התפוצה היהודית | A Prayer for the Welfare of Diaspora Jewry, by Rabbi Amitai Fraiman (2018)

We have a prayer for the State of Israel, its army, government etc. but we do not have a non-judgmental, non-aliyah focused prayer for the welfare of Diaspora Jewry. This prayer offers a remedy for this absence. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, After the Aliyot

Tags: 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., in the merit of Aharon haKohen, Prayers for the Diaspora from Israel, Shazur שזור, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): Amitai Fraiman

מי שבירך לתלמידים החוזרים מחופשת הקיץ | A Mi sheBerakh prayer for students returning to school after their summer break, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried

A mi sheberakh prayer by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried for the parents of students returning to school from their summer break. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, After the Aliyot

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Beit Tefillah Yisraeli, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): Esteban Gottfried

מי שברך לילדים והוריהם בשלהי שנה ובפתיחה | Mi sheBeraj para los niños y sus padres en el inicio de un nuevo año escolar | Mi sheBerakh for Children and their Parents at the Commencement of the School Year, by Rabbi Hagit Sabag Yisrael (Masorti Movement in Israel)

A “mi sheberakh” blessing for children and the parents of children returning to school at the beginning of the new school year. . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, After the Aliyot

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., מי שברך mi sheberakh, Parents blessing children, Prayers of Primary Caregivers

Contributor(s): Hagit Sabag Yisrael, Sandra Kochmann (translation) and Masorti Movement in Israel

מי שברך לעגונות | Mi sheBerakh to Support Agunot and Call Get Refusers to Account, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This prayer, following the structure of the Mi Sheberakh supplications during the Torah service, is meant to call get refusers to account, by name, and make a statement that their behavior is evil and will not be tolerated. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, 🌐 Agunah Day (Adar 13), Slavery & Captivity

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., agunot, divorce, מסרבות גט mesorvot get, מי שברך mi sheberakh, שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Prayer for Reparation and Restoration, an alternative to the Prayer for Welfare of the Government by Rabbi Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago 2020)

A prayer for collective and communal well-being with an emphasis on dismantling systems of oppression and repairing their harms. . . .

Categories: Government & Country, After the Aliyot, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s): Brant Rosen and Congregation Tzedek Chicago

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ לְבָּרְוָחָה הַנַּפְשִׁית | Mi sheBerakh for Mental Health Wellness (the Blue Dove Foundation, 2021)

We believe Jewish prayers and rituals can help to strengthen our mental well-being, resilience and recovery in the same way middot, or Jewish values, can promote them. Faith is an important part of healing for many, and Jewish thinkers and leaders historically have brought the two together. When someone is ill or recovering from illness or an accident, we often recite a mi sheberakh to wish them a refuah sheleimah, or a “full recovery.” We have expanded this prayer for those who are struggling with mental health with this Mi Sheberakh for Mental Health. –the Blue Dove Foundation . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Well-being, health, and caregiving

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., health, Mental Health, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s): the Blue Dove Foundation

אל מלא רחמים לזכר הנרצחים | El Malé Raḥamim Prayer for the Victims of Terrorism in the Land of Israel

An El Malé Raḥamim prayer for Victims of Terror in Erets Yisrael, with an English translation by Rabbi Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraeli from Prayers for Israel, for Protection from Terror Attacks, and In Memory of the Victims (15 October 2023), page 6. . . .

Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haZikaron, Mourning, After the Aliyot, Terror

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael

Contributor(s): R' Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli and Unknown Author(s)

אֵל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים לְנִשְׁמוֹת תּוֹשָׁבֵי מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל מֶהַיִשּׁוּבֵי עוֹטֵף עַזָּה | El Malé Raḥamim for the residents of the State of Israel from the communities on the Gaza Border, by Cantor Amnon Seelig

This is an El Malé Raḥamim prayer by Cantor Amnon Seelig for the victims of the invasion of HAMA”S from Gaza on Shemini Atseret 5784, with an English translation by Rabbi Oren Steinitz. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Mourning, Terror

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim

Contributor(s): Oren Steinitz and Amnon Seelig

“An important message, November 2023,” a prayer-poem in the form of a shipping notice by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

“An important message, November 2023” is a shipping notice from God and a meditation on parochial empathy. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, Addenda

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Compassion, empathy, English vernacular prayer, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, parochial empathy, Prayers as poems, שפע shefa

Contributor(s): Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

מי שברך לשלום המדינה | Mi sheBerakh for the Peace of the State of Israel, by the Masorti Movement in Israel

This prayer for the peace of the nation, first published in the siddur VeAni Tefillati (second edition, page 133), was circulated by the Masorti Movement in Israel on social media on 1 August 2024, amidst increased anxieties over impending retaliatory strikes by Iran and its proxy armies in Lebanon and elsewhere. . . .

Categories: After the Aliyot, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), War

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Assassination of Fuad Shukr, Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Assassination of Mohammed Deif, Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, Iranian support for Hamas, מי שברך mi sheberakh, religious Zionist prayers

Contributor(s): Masorti Movement in Israel, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

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