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21st century C.E. —⟶ tag: 21st century C.E. Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? Other rituals will surely arise — songs, prayers, art, and silence — each guided by the wisdom and imagination of artists, rabbis, and ritual leaders who help us make meaning in the wake of sorrow and hope. Let us honor both the moment and the movement — the courage to create holiness even as we live toward wholeness. Categories: Tags: 2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Gaza war peace plan Contributor(s): “תפילת הודיה לשוב החטופים (A prayer of thanks on return of the hostages)” was written and translated by Ze’ev Kainan on behalf of the Masorti Movement in Israel and Knesset haRabanim b’Yisrael, and shared by email and social media on 13 October 2025, erev Shemini Atseret, on the day of the return of the remaining living hostages taken captive by HAMA”S two years prior. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This al hanissim for the day of the release of the remaining living hostages taken by HAMA”S to Gaza on 7 October 2023, was offered by Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny (Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles) on 13 October 2025, on Hoshana Rabba 5786. The text of the prayer was first published in a Google Doc with a link shared over social media. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): While Gevurot Geshem is recited on Shmini Atseret, Baqashat Geshem as an addition to the birkat ha-shanim is recited later — from the seventh of Marḥeshvan in Israel, from sixty days after the Julian-calendar autumn equinox in the diaspora. This passage is added starting in the evening, but since there is no repetition at night there is no special custom for announcing its insertion. I think that’s a shame, so I wrote a series of ma’aravot (piyyuṭim to be inserted into the ma’ariv service) to be recited on the day where we begin to request rain. “The Chief Rabbi’s Prayer of Thanksgiving & Hope on the Occasion of the Release of the Remaining Living Hostages Held in Gaza” by the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth was first shared via social media on erev Shabbat Bereshit (17 October 2025) by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. While the time for beginning to mention God’s power to bring rain in our prayers has a dramatic introductory piyyut (see my work here for a version with Immahot), the time when we begin actually asking for said rain is unadorned by any poetry, and is simply a change in one phrase in our liturgy. Therefore, inspired by a Facebook post by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (who since wrote his own version here), I wrote the following piyyut over the course of 5785, to be added to the Maariv service on the evening when one begins praying for rain in their location. Each stanza of the piyyut is intended to be added before the ḥatimah of each of the four blessings surrounding the Maariv Shema. I have signed my name to the acrostic, and provided a translation that highlights said acrostic and structure. May we have a year of abundance and goodness. A meditation prior to laying tefillin that takes into regard the creature whose skin was repurposed for this sacred ritual activity. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An adaptation of the fourth berakhah of a festival musaf, for Sigd. Since halakhically there is technically no Sigd musaf, this does not end with shem u-malkhut in the ḥatimah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for the Shabbat After Bondi Beach” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was offered via Open Siddur Project’s discussion group on Facebook, 19 December 2025, in response to the Bondi Beach shootings in Sydney, Australia on 14 December 2025. Categories: Tags: 2025 Bondi Beach shooting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Australian Jewry, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): A prayer for every day in the Gregorian year 2026, by Miriam Rubin, was offered in the first week of January, on 5 Jan 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This mi sheberakh prayer was offered by Rabbi Gila Caine for those reviewing and compiling the documentary evidence of the depraved violence committed by HAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023. These supplemental stanzas to the 1623 piyyut, “Shalom Aleikhem,” by Miriam Rubin, were offered on 9 January 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Game Day” was offered by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared through the Open Siddur Project via our discussion group on Facebook, 3 February 2026, in the week before “Super Bowl ⅬⅩ” on 8 February 2026. The “Super Bowl” is the premiere contest between competing teams in the game of gridiron football, played predominantly in North America, in the United States. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for Jewish-Muslim meeting on Ramadan was written by Lior bar-Ami and first published via his Facebook page on 18 February 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An egalitarian liturgical innovation for the ḥatimah of the first blessing of the Amidah, magen avot in which the divine is described as the fortress of Sarah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Ad d’Lo Yada” was offered by R’ Hannah Dresner and first published in In Times Like These (2026), a collection of prayers and related resources for Purim published by The Bayit: Building Jewish. A prayer for the welfare of the State of Israel, its people and its military personnel during the war with Iran begun at the end of February 2026. “Geula for Shaagat HaAri” by Benny Powers was first published to the author’s website on 11 March 2026. These teḥinot on descending into and ascending out of a shelter were written as a response to the Iran war of 2026, which featured a lot of descending into and ascending out of shelters. The teḥinah on ascending is inspired by the minhag not to write the book of Eikha on klaf, because klaf represents permanence, and we pray someday to no longer need to recite it. This prayer by Rabbi Peter Stein was offered while serving as guest chaplain before the 119th Congress, 2nd Session of the US House of Representatives on 30 April 2026. | ||
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