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19th century C.E. —⟶ tag: 19th century C.E. Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 February 1899. . . . Categories: Tags: 56th Congress, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Philippine–American War, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): Prayer on the 100th Anniversary of the Death of George Washington, by Rabbi Edward N. Calisch (1899)This “Washington Anniversary Prayer” was offered by Rabbi Edward Nathan Calisch during the Masonic ceremonies at Mt. Vernon, 18 December 1899, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of George Washington’s death. Rabbi Calisch published it in his autobiography, Three Score and Twenty (1945), pp. 47-48. . . . A piyyut and table song for Shabbat by the chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The 7th of Adar is the traditional date for the yahrzeit of Moshe Rabbeinu and it is also remembered as the day of his birth 120 years earlier. This variation of of the piyyut, Hanenu Yah Hanenu (Forgive Us Yah, Forgive Us), sung on 7 Adar, is attributed to Rabbi Yosef Ḥayyim of Baghdad (the Ben Ish Ḥai, 1832-1909). The earliest published version we could find appears in בקשות: ונוסף עוד פתיחות ופיוטים הנוהגים לומר בזמה הזה (1912) containing piyyutim by Israel ben Moses Najara (1555-1625), a Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist, and rabbi of Gaza. The contemporary audio recording of the Iraqi nusaḥ presented here was made by משה חבושה (Moshe Ḥavusha). . . . The piyyut, Refa Tsiri, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A digital reproduction of a Shiviti held in the Royal Library of Denmark’s Simonsen Manuscripts Collection. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the traveling song Gerer Chassidim would sing on their way to see the Gerrer Rebbe in Góra Kalwaria, Poland before World War Ⅱ. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Translation, Ḥasidic, Polish vernacular prayer, trave, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old (1900) is a collection of teḥinot in English, selected, arranged, and written by Annie Josephine Levi. The introduction was written by the Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. We know very little else about Levi save that she contributed short stories, poems, and essays to periodicals and was active from 1895-1905. (If you know more about her, please contact us.) . . . The poem “Unsung Heroism” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 141. . . . This untitled “evening mediation,” a bedtime prayer, was written by Dinah Julia Levi née Emanuel and included by her daughter, Annie Josephine Levi, in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 74-75. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This untitled “Evening Meditation for the Young,” a bedtime prayer, was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 137. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): This untitled “morning mediation,” a waking prayer, was written by Dinah Julia Levi née Emanuel and included by her daughter, Annie Josephine Levi, in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 56-57. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “On the loss of a beloved one (in the morning)” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 148-149. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Grief, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “On the loss of a beloved one (in the evening)” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 156-157. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Grief, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “In Time of Trouble” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 146. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Distress, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, suicidal ideation, suicide, suicide prevention, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English Contributor(s): “In Sickness” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 147. . . . This untitled “Evening Meditation” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), pp. 108-109. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The poem “Tsafririm” (1900) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik with an English translation by Ben Aronin. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alternate rhyming scheme, animistic spirits, entering magical territory, first person, Jewish faeries, Light, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, numinous beings, Prayers as poems, romanticism Contributor(s): The invocation offered at the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City in 1900. . . . The poem “Friday Night” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (ed. Friedlander & Kohut 1917), p. 269. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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