tagged: 1st century C.E. • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

ברכות השחר | Birkhot haShaḥar (Morning Blessings), paraliturgical reflections by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

Paraliturgical reflections of the morning blessings for a shame resilience practice. . . .

אָבִינוּ יִתְקַדֵּשׁ | Avinu Yitqadesh, a rabbinic Hebrew translation of the Lord’s Prayer by Shem Tov ibn Shaprut (14th c.)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Shem Tov ibn Shaprut (translation) and Mattai ben Alphaeus haLevi

A rabbinic Hebrew translation of the “Lord’s Prayer.” . . .

Ὑμνεῖν με δεῖ τὸν θεόν | “I Must Praise God,” excerpted from the Discourses of Epictetus by Rabbi Morrison David Bial

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Morrison David Bial and Epictetus the Stoic

A short discourse on the necessity for prayer by the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. . . .

ברייתא דרבי ישמעאל | The Baraita of Rebbi Yishma’el: thirteen principles of halakhic exegesis, translated by Ben-Zion Bokser

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Ben-Zion Bokser and Yishmael ben Elisha

The thirteen exegetical rules by which halakhot from the Torah may be derived, according to Rebbi Yishmael, included with the preliminary prayers before the Psukei d’Zimrah/Zemirot of Shaḥarit. . . .

💬 The Story of Gedalyah, as told by Titus Flavius Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Ralph Marcus (translation) and Titus Flavius Josephus

The story of Gedaliah as recorded by Josephus in his Jewish Antiquities. . . .