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21st century C.E. —⟶ tag: 21st century C.E. Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This prayer by Lior bar-Ami for a synagogue congregation’s Rabbinic Search Committee was first offered in German and English in 2020. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 January 2020. Categories: Tags: 116th Congress, 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 January 2020. The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 February 2020. Categories: Tags: 116th Congress, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): Invocation for a virtual Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for Tu b’Av by Lior bar-Ami, in German and English, was first offered in 2020. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This Veterans Day Prayer was first published by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, USN (Retired), on his twitter page. He writes, “Because of COVID this is the first Veterans Day in a long time I am not part of a ceremony — and I know that’s the situation for many fellow vets. So I wrote it yesterday to share today as a virtual prayer for Veterans Day 2020.” On 11 November 2022, Rabbi Resnicoff offered the expanded revision of this prayer as offered above at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers of military chaplains, United States Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 October 2020. Categories: Tags: 116th Congress, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): A covenantal document for an egalitarian wedding/partnership rooted in R’ Rachel Adler’s brit ahuvim legal structure, not based on kiddushin. Written for a woman and man marrying each other (see genders in Hebrew). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is a poetic Birkat haMazon, similar to those found in the Cairo Geniza, intended for this specific break-fast meal. The editor has included the text in Hebrew, English, and an attempted Liturgical Ge’ez translation. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Beta Esrael, ברכת המזון birkat hamazon, Break Fasts, Ethiopian Jewry Contributor(s): A blessing for us and the year ahead from the last month of the Jewish calendar year. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This mi sheberakh for the ill, and the two additional prayers, all appear on page 15-16 of Hayyim Obadya’s Seder Akhilat haSimanim for 5781. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A blessing for growth in springtime Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Some communities have a practice of singing a song about Miriam alongside the well-known Havdalah song about Elijah the Prophet. But Miriam isn’t really a parallel to Elijah — she’s a parallel to Moshe and Aaron. When we’re talking about distaff counterparts to Elijah the clearest example is Seraḥ bat Asher. Seraḥ, the daughter of Asher, is mentioned only a handful of times in the Tanakh, but is given great significance in the midrash. Like Elijah, she is said to have never died but entered Paradise alive, and comes around to the rabbis to give advice or teachings. This song, which includes several references to midrashim about Seraḥ, is meant to be sung to any traditional tune of “Eliyahu haNavi.” It is dedicated to Ḥazzan Joanna Selznick Dulkin (shlit”a), who introduced me to the legends of Seraḥ bat Asher. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): There are blessings for beautiful vistas, and there are blessings for powerful weather. But is there a blessing for giant swarms of bugs? Certainly! There just wasn’t a kavvanah for it… yet. Inspired by the appearance of Brood X in May 2021, this is a meditation and blessing for the unique experience of seeing an enormous number of non-dangerous insects. Cicadas are NOT a plague — they don’t eat crops or spread disease, but they do help revitalize the soil and keep forest ecosystems healthy. As a natural part of the universal order, we should work to see the divinity and goodness in them, even if we might normally think of them as gross. There’s a lot of controversy over Yom haShoah as a date. One of the key issues is this: traditionally, the ways Jews mourn communal tragedies is through establishing a fast day. It’s forbidden to fast during the month of Nisan. It’s hard to pick any specific date to commemorate a tragedy as enormous as the Shoah, but one which seems appropriate to me would be 16 Marḥeshvan, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom. This piyyut is a seliḥah for Kristallnacht, to be recited on 16 Marḥeshvan (or 15 Marḥeshvan on years like 5782 where the sixteenth falls on a Thursday). Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Kristallnacht (9-10 November, 16 Marḥeshvan), 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (28-29 April) Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acronym, Alphabetic Acrostic, פיוטים piyyuṭim, קינות Ḳinōt, השואה the Shoah, Third Reich Contributor(s): “How Much Light? A Ḥanukkah Meditation” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was first shared on the second night of Ḥanukkah 5782 (2021) via the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Torah and Haftarah readings for Tu biShvat selected by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Tilt: A Prayer for the Winter Solstice” was first published by the author on her website (17 December 2015). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This short piyut touches on these four themes related to Shmitah: release of debts, the rights of the land, the rights of wild animals (who share our food during Shmitah), and the freeing of slaves. The piyut would fit as part of Seliḥot before Rosh haShanah and during Yom Kippur. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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