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Yahnatan Lasko (translation), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ד בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ב (2021-09-29)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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 Marriage
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 20th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 58th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, wedding day, hair, hair-cutting, Needing citation references
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A supplication of a woman cutting her hair as an act of tsanua, per a contemporary custom in many Ḥaredi communities. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan
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כ״ד באלול ה׳תשפ״א (2021-09-01)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness
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20th century C.E., סליחות seliḥot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers adapted from teachings, תשובה teshuvah, אמת ואמונה Emet v'Emunah
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A prayer-poem by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan based on the writings of Rabbi Leo Baeck, as published in the Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1945), p.426-7. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Franz Rosenzweig (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ט באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-08-06)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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20th century C.E., acrostic, 57th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry, Alphabetic Acrostic, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil
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The Masoretic Hebrew text of Proverbs 30:10-31, the alphabetic acrostic “Eshet Ḥayil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Franz Rosenzweig (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ט באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-08-06)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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20th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, Angels, פיוטים piyyutim, 57th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem
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The popular adjuration of the angels of peace and ministering angels, Shalom Aleikhem, in Hebrew with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . . |
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Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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י״ז באייר ה׳תשע״ח (2018-05-02)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Ecotastrophes
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20th century C.E., eco-conscious, kindling, North America, candle lighting, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid
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“Between the Fires: A Prayer for lighting Candles of Commitment” was composed by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, drawing on traditional midrash about the danger of a Flood of Fire, and the passage from Malachi. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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ו׳ בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-18)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Symbolic Foods, Barekh
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20th century C.E., water, 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, haggadah supplements, water protectors, In the merit of Miriam, water is life
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Rabbi Yosi son of Rabbi Yehuda says: “Three good sustainers arose for Israel. These are they: Moses and Aaron and Miriam. And three good gifts were given because of them, and these are they: well, and cloud, and manna. The well was given in merit of Miriam… Miriam died and the well ceased, as it is written (Numbers 20:1-2) “And Miriam died there,” and it says right afterwards “and there was no water for the community.” . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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ו׳ בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-18)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Symbolic Foods, Barekh
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20th century C.E., symbolic foods, השואה the Shoah, 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, the Holocaust, haggadah supplements, shfokh ḥamatkha
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Pearl Benisch… remembers Passover in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in the spring of 1945, just days before her liberation. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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ו׳ בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-18)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Symbolic Foods, Shulḥan Orekh
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20th century C.E., symbolic foods, 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, haggadah supplements, inclusion, LGBTQ, inclusion and exclusion, oranges
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In the early 1980s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians (suggesting that there’s as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate). Heschel felt that to put bread on the seder plate would be to accept that Jewish lesbians and gay men violate Judaism like ḥamets violates Passover. So, at her next seder, she chose an orange as a symbol of inclusion of gays and lesbians and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community. She offered the orange as a symbol of the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn and Mordecai Kaplan
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ט׳ באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-02-20)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February)
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20th century C.E., United States, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States
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This opening prayer for Washington’s Birthday, “The Significance of the Day,” as first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951). . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn and Mordecai Kaplan
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כ״ח בשבט ה׳תשפ״א (2021-02-10)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th)
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20th century C.E., United States, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States
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This opening prayer-essay for Lincoln’s Birthday, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951) — as preface to a number of readings selected by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams for the day. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ח׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-03)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, pregnancy, prayers for pregnant women
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A prayer for a pregnant woman approaching her childbirth. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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ל׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ו (2016-02-08)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Travel
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20th century C.E., flying, ascent, air, 58th century A.M., airplane travel, prayers for the way, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, prayers for the road, Needing Attribution
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If I ascend up into the heavens, you are there. If I take wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there would your hand lead me, and your right hand would hold me. And may it be your will, our father in heaven, that you guard us from storm and tempest and grief. And may you bring forth from your storehouses a propitious wind to carry our plane, and may you sustain and preserve those who fly it, that they neither weaken nor falter, and may we reach our destination alive and well, without any trouble and injury. O keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be abashed, for I have taken refuge in you. But we will bless Yah from this time forth and for ever, Halleluyah. . . . |
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Eugene Kohn, John Paul Williams, Mordecai Kaplan and Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation
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ז׳ בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-22)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Pulpit & Ceremonial Prayer collections, Interfaith & Ecumenical collections of prayers
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20th century C.E., ecumenical prayers, 58th century A.M., civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, reconstructing Judaism
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A collection of civic prayers, poems, and readings arranged for thirteen civic holidays in the United States. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ח׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-03)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers, pregnancy, prayers for pregnant women
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A prayer for a pregnant woman that she not suffer a miscarriage. . . . |
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| Contributor(s): |
Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ח׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-03)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, pregnancy, prayers for pregnant women
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A prayer for a pregnant woman whose childbirth is immanent. . . . |
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Yehoyesh Shloyme Blumgarten (translation) and The Yehoyesh Project (transcription)
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י״ט בתמוז ה׳תשע״ז (2017-07-13)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41)
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20th century C.E., תהלים Psalms, ײדיש Yiddish, 57th century A.M., Yiddish translation, New York, Psalms 1
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This is a faithful transcription by the Yehoyesh Project of the Yiddish translation of Psalms 1 made by Yehoyesh Shloyme (Yehoash Solomon) Blumgarten (1870-1927) published in Torah, Neviʼim, u-Khetuvim vol. 2 (New York: Yehoʼash Farlag Gezelshaft, 1941). The complete transcription of Torah, Neviʼim, u-Khetuvim by the Yehoyesh Project in copy/pasteable and searchable plaintext may be found here. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rabbi Uri Miller
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כ׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ז (2017-01-17)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day (3rd Monday of January), Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, National Brotherhood Week
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20th century C.E., United States, social justice, democracy, civil rights, demonstrations, 57th century A.M., Btselem Elohim
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Prayer delivered by Rabbi Uri Miller, President of the Synagogue Council of America, at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Eugene Kohn, David Frischmann (translation) and Rabindranath Tagore
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י״ד באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-02-18)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Taḥanun, Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat
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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, cosmic religion, is it Sikh or Hassidic?, universalist prayers, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka
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“Where We Can Find God,” a prayer-poem inspired by passages appearing in David Frishman’s Hebrew translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation) and Samuel Francis Smith
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ב׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-25)
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Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works)
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National Arbor Day (last Friday in April), Independence Day (July 4th)
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20th century C.E., United States, זמירות zemirot, 58th century A.M., Yiddish translation, Yiddish songs, American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic hymns, doikayt, hereness
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The well-known patriotic hymn with a Yiddish translation. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Irving Greenberg
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י״ט בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-03)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Government & Country, Elections & Voting
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20th century C.E., United States, תחינות teḥinot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Democratic National Conventions, Invocation, United States General Election 2000, Democratic National Convention 2000
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The full text of Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s invocation offered on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, August 16th, 2000. . . . |
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Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and the Masoretic Text
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ב׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ז (2017-01-28)
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Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs, Canticles), Shabbat, Pesaḥ Readings
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20th century C.E., eros, English Translation, North America, 58th century A.M., Ketuvim, Five Megillot, קבלת שבת kabbalat shabbat
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Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum’s translation of The Song of Songs (Shir haShirim) in Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem (The [Complete] Daily Prayer Book), Hebrew Publishing Company, 1949. . . . |
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Daniel Kahn (translation), Yeva Lapsker (translation), Patrick Farrell (translation), Sveta Kundish (translation) and Shlomo Shmulevitz
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ט״ז בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-07)
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
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Epidemics & Pandemics
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20th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M., Epidemic, Yiddish songs, Pandemic, 1889–1890 flu pandemic, Tuberculosis
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A song in Yiddish bemoaning the suffering brought about in an epidemic. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moshe Faskowitz
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י״ט בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-03)
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| Terms: |
Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
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Government & Country, Elections & Voting
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20th century C.E., United States, Benediction, תחינות teḥinot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Democratic National Conventions, United States General Election 1996, Democratic National Convention 1996
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The full text of Rabbi Moshe Faskowitz’s invocation offered at the Democratic National Convention, August 27th, 1996. . . . |
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