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21st century C.E. —⟶ tag: 21st century C.E. Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Manny Behar on 30 April 2003The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 April 2003. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 May 2003. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 19 May 2003. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 May 2003. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 11 June 2003. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 13 June 2003. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 16 June 2003. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. David Halpern on 17 June 2003The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 June 2003. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Milton Balkany on 26 June 2003The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 June 2003. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. Ari Korenblit on 19 November 2003The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 November 2003. . . . This is an untitled prayer by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, originally offered by him in an address given at the Roundtable Dialogue for the visit of the 14th Dalai Lama together with other Nobel Laureates in Vancouver, B.C., entitled “Balancing Educating the Mind with Educating the Heart.” The event was held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, on Tuesday, April 20, 2004. While the video documenting the address is currently offline, thankfully the original text of the prayer is given in its transcription by Gabbai Seth Fishman. The prayer is presented here alongside an adaptation found in the High Holy Days Maḥzor of Congregation Nevei Kodesh: Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder (2018), p.36, Section 10: Prayers for Rosh haShanah. The prayer in this form, as revised by Netanel Miles-Yepez and Reb Zalman, can be found at Kol Aleph (2014) and the now defunct Sufi Hasidim website (2009). . . . Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System This prayer for Israel was written by Rabbi Naḥum Waldman (1931-2004) for T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. T’ruah works to ensure that Israel remains a safe and secure home for Jews and a place that lives up to the ideal stated in the State of Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence that Israel “will foster the development of the country for all of its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice, and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.” . . . Categories: 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel) A prayer composed by Rabbi Shai Held in the aftermath of the devastating 2004 Asian Tsunami. . . . A ḳinah (lamentation) for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzḥak Rabin, assassinated on 4 November 1995, the yahrzeit of which is י״א בְּמַרחֶשְׁוָן (11 Marḥeshvan). . . . The full text of Rabbi Ronne Friedman’s invocation offered on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, July 29th, 2004. . . . מִי שֶׁעָנָה…הוּא יַעֲנֵֽנוּ | Mi She’anah… Hu Ya’anenu — A Seliḥah for Yom Kippur (egal adaptation by Lisa Exler and Rabbi Julia Andelman, 2004)This egalitarian adaptation of the Me she’Ana seliḥah for the season of Teshuvah was made by Julia Andelman and Lisa Exler in September 2004. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Elie Spitz on 18 March 2004The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 March 2004. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Commander Maurice S. Kaprow on 5 May 2004The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 May 2004. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 May 2004. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 June 2004. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 22 June 2004. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 7 July 2004. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 9 September 2004. . . . A Blessing over Water for Peace, Health, Joy, Prosperity, and Kindness — by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (ca. 2004)A blessing by Reb Zalman for Peace, Health, Joy, Prosperity, and Kindness which he wrote in spray paint on a municipal water tank behind his house in Colorado. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. Gary P. Zola on 21 September 2004The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 September 2004. . . . Shelley Frier List’s prayer for agunot was originally printed in JOFA JOURNAL, Summer 2005 (5:4), p.5, wherein was added a Hebrew adaptation made by the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA). . . . פתח לנו שער בעת נעילת שער | Open for us a gate at the closing of a gate, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx (2005)A prayer for the State of Israel during conflicts over sovereignty and dispossession. . . . Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), Terror This “Meditation before Yom Kippur for One who Cannot Fast” (2005) was written by Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW, Rabbinic Director, National Center for Jewish Healing. It appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022), p. 11. . . . Categories: Yom Kippur The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 12 April 2005. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 26 May 2005. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi David Greene on 12 July 2005The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 July 2005. . . . Judy Gumbo co-authored this Al Ḥeit with her partner Stew Albert, ז״ל, before his passing in 2006. This Al Ḥeit was most recently used as part of Yom Kippur Kol Nidre services across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street 5772. . . . Categories: Yom Kippur 💬 The Last Tishah b’Av: A Tale of New Temples, by Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow & Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman (2006)In Jewish tradition, on this very day of disaster Mashiaḥ (Messiah) was born, but hidden away till a generation would come that is ready to make peace and eco-social justice in the world. So this year, we offer this story of hope and redemption to be read by Jews and Muslims together on the fast day or for the evening break-fast when it ends. . . . 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. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 April 2006. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Amy Rader on 14 September 2006The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 14 September 2006. . . . על חטא | For the Sin of Destroying God’s Creation by Rabbi Danny Nevins, adapted by Rabbi David Seidenberg (2007)Eternal God, You created earth and heavens with mercy, and blew the breath of life into animals and human beings. We were created amidst a world of wholeness, a world called “very good,” pure and beautiful, but now your many works are being erased by us from the book of life. . . . 📄 the past didn’t go anywhere: making resistance to antisemitism part of all of our movements, by April Rosenblum (2007)It’s always a real struggle for the Left to successfully tackle oppression within its own ranks. But when we do it, our movements gain, every time, from the deeper understandings that emerge. To start the process this time, we need some basic information about what anti-Jewish oppression is and how to counter it. But it has to come from a perspective of justice for all people, not from opportunistic attempts to slander or censor social justice efforts that are gaining strength. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Shea Harlig on 15 March 2007The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 15 March 2007. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 22 March 2007. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Paul Silton on 28 March 2007The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 March 2007. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Frederick L. Klein on 18 September 2007The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 September 2007. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields on 12 July 2007The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 July 2007. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Irwin N. Goldenberg on 7 November 2007The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 November 2007. . . . A prayer for the great aspirations of the country of the United States of America. . . . With gratitude to the One True God, and to the original creators, this is a derivation of the “Battlestar Seder Haggadah” prepared by David “Razor” Lieberman, Alison “Fat Six” Ogden, and Mary “Actual” Bruch, for “A Seder on Battlestar Galactica,” an event held on Saturday, 26 April 2008, on Earth. The seder was first posted to galacticahaggadah.com and later to battlestarseder.org under a GNU Free Document License. Both of these domains having gone to ruin, the Haggadah was thankfully preserved on the Wayback Machine thanks to the Internet Archives. I resurrected the Haggadah, adding the following: 1) alternate blessings for crypto-Cylons, 2) संस्कृतम् sourcetext in Sanskrit script along with annotation indicating the source of the prayer/mantra included, 3) a short prayer that Priestess Elosha recites at the very beginning of the funeral scene near the end of the miniseries. –Aharon Varady . . . Categories: Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Battlestar Galactica, crossovers, parody, Prayers of Cylons, Prayers of Kobol Contributor(s): David "Razor" Lieberman, Alison "Fat Six" Ogden, Mary "Actual" Bruch and Aharon N. Varady (transcription) The prayer for the State of Israel, composed May 2008/lyyar 5768 on the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel, was first shared on the web on May 7th, 2008 here and published on paper and PDF on May 8th, 2008 in an event organized by Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, “Embracing Justice: An Alternative Celebration and Learning for Yom Ha’Atzma’ut/Israel’s 60th Independence Day.” . . . Categories: 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel) “Orah hee” was composed by Rabbi Jill Hammer in 2008 and first published at Tel Shemesh in romanized Hebrew and English translation. . . . Categories: Nirtsah This prayer was first published in an op-ed, “A Jew’s Prayer for the Children of Gaza,” in the newspaper, Ha’aretz, on 7 January 2009. . . . The full text of Rabbi David Saperstein’s invocation offered on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, August 8th, 2008. . . . | ||
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