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). . . .
An indigenous land acknowledgement for Jewish communities in Cincinnati, Ohio. . . .
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. . . .
A prayer for the observance of Memorial Day in the United States. . . .
A kavvanah for clarifying and elevating the activity of tax preparation. . . .
Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Categories:  Rosh Hashanah, Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Sukkot, Ecotastrophes
Tags:  20th century C.E., eco-conscious, kindling, North America, candle lighting, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid 
“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. . . .
Contributor(s): Chaya Kaplan-Lester
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Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
Tags: Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer 
Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . .
A virtual prayer for Veterans Day 2020. . . .
We are hereby ready to fulfill our obligation of K’vod Habriot, respect for the dignity of every human being. We pray that our fellow citizens shall not be the source of suffering in others. We commit ourselves to raise our voices in support of universal human rights, to know the heart of the stranger, and to feel compassion for those whose humanity is denied. May our compassion lead us to fight for justice. Blessed is the Source of Life, who redeemed our ancestors from Egypt and brought us together this night of Passover to tell the story of freedom. May God bring us security and peace, enabling us to celebrate together year after year. Praised are you, Source of Righteousness, who redeems the world and loves justice and freedom. . . .
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.” . . .
Pearl Benisch… remembers Passover in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in the spring of 1945, just days before her liberation. . . .
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Categories: Symbolic Foods, Shulḥan Orekh
Tags: 20th century C.E., symbolic foods, 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, haggadah supplements, inclusion, LGBTQ, inclusion and exclusion, oranges
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. . . .
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Categories: Symbolic Foods, Seder l'Pesaḥ
Tags: symbolic foods, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, haggadah supplements, cup of miriam, leeks, beets, miriam's fish, oranges, turnip peels, Maxwell House coffee
A Passover seder supplement containing seven additional symbolic foods and their associated ritual presentations, along with their collective organization on a second seder plate. . . .
A meditation which can be used to prepare for Pesaḥ, or for sharing at the Seder, to deepen the experience of liberation for yourself and others. . . .
Traditionally each cup in the Passover Seder is liked to a promise made by God in these verses, Exodus 6:6-7. The four cups can also be associated with the Four Freedoms first articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, which were an inspiration for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and were explicitly incorporated into its preamble. . . .
An acknowledgement that the land we are conducting our religious ceremonies on is the sacred and traditional land of Indigenous people. It involves a kavvanah and study verses as well as the land acknowledgement. . . .
A Passover supplement created for recitation at Passover seders in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. . . .
A playful, powerful, passionate reading for Passover seder or any time. Can be chanted to the traditional Ashkenazi lilt for the Four Questions. . . .
A prayer upon receiving a vaccination for COVID. . . .
A creative, interpretive translation of the the Mourner’s Ḳaddish. . . .
Tropified texts for Purim 2021 juxtaposing the text of Queen Esther with the words of Vice President Kamalla Harris and poet laureate Amanda Gorman. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), United States Congressional Record and Roland B. Gittelsohn
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Categories: Modern Miscellany, National Brotherhood Week, Memorial (Decoration) Day Readings
Tags: 20th century C.E., pluralism, United States, democracy, 58th century A.M., World War II, Eulogy, anti-fascist, anti-racist 
A chaplain’s eulogy over the fallen soldiers of Iwo Jima (also known under the title, “The Highest and Purest Democracy”) . . .
A prayer for Brotherhood Week, written in 1951. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the weekday Amidah for a shame resilience practice. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the blessing following the Shema, the Birkat Ga’al Yisrael, for a shame resilience practice. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the second blessing prior to the Shema, the Birkat Ahavah, for a shame resilience practice. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the second blessing prior to the Shema, the Birkat Ahavah, for a shame resilience practice. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the first blessing prior to the Shema, Yotser Ohr, for a shame resilience practice. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the prayer Barukh She’amar for a shame resilience practice. . . .
A paraliturgical reflection of the prayer Aleinu for a shame resilience practice . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Eugene Kohn and Mordecai Kaplan
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Categories: Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), National Brotherhood Week
Tags: 20th century C.E., pluralism, United States, 58th century A.M., civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, anti-fascist, anti-racist 
A civic prayer for the Sabbath occurring during Brotherhood Week (February 19th-28th) in the United States. . . .
A prayer of gratitude upon receiving a COVID vaccination. . . .
Aleinu, as rewritten in Hebrew and English for Ḥavurat Shalom, Somerville, Massachusetts. . . .
A prayer of intention before the meeting of the board of a philanthropic organization determining the recipients of the largess in their trust. . . .
A prayer on being present in the moment of the inauguration of the 59th president of the United States. . . .
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
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Categories: Government & Country, Inauguration Day (January 20th)
Tags: United States, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, American Jewry of the United States, 46th President of the United States, 59th Presidential Inauguration, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, 117th Congress 
A prayer for the government of the United States of America on the day of the 59th Presidential Inauguration. . . .
A Tu biShvat prayer for the trees of the land of Israel and the world over, that they not be victims of deforestation. . . .
A prayer for the government on a day of violent insurrection in the heart of American democracy. . . .
A prayer for America on the day upon which right-wing militias carried out an insurrection upon the representative democratic institution of the United States. . . .
Invocation for a Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . .
Invocation for a virtual Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . .
Contributor(s): David Abernethy
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Categories: Government & Country
Tags: pluralism, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, United States of America, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, United States General Election 2020, civic responsibility 
A prayer for the United States, its leaders and government and its citizens — a personal response to things that were troubling me in the months before November’s election – in particular the level of divisiveness in our country, and what seemed to me to be a growing sense that it isn’t important to respect people we disagree with, and an ever more prevalent belief that we are entitled to decide for ourselves which rules to follow, and all that matters are own rights and our beliefs, not our responsibilities to one another. Inspired by the events of 2020 . . .
The full text of Rabbi Lauren Berkun’s benediction offered at the end of the third day of the Democratic National Convention, 20 August 2020. . . .
A prayer for the day after the US day of elections that all votes be counted. . . .
A prayer for a government when that government is causing pain through malicious policies. . . .
“A Prayer for the Spiritual Welfare of the United States at a Time of Trial,” by Rabbi Joe Schwartz was first published at The Forward on 28 June 2019. . . .
Contributor(s): Stephen Belsky
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Categories: Government & Country, Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Mass Shootings & Gun Violence, Terror
Tags: United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers after acts of terrible violence, United States of America, prayers for municipalities, mass murder inside a synagogue, 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 
A prayer composed in the aftermath of the mass murder of the Dor Ḥadash community at the Ets Ḥayyim (Tree of Life) Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh on Shabbat morning 27 October 2018. . . .
Contributor(s): Shmuly Yanklowitz
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Categories: Government & Country, Coronations & Inaugurations
Tags: United States, resistance, Donald Trump, dissent, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, 45th President of the United States, Resist, United States General Election 2016, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)
Because of my commitment to the integrity of prayer, starting this week, I can no longer recite or say amen to the Shabbat prayer for the success of the U.S. President. So I have drafted a new prayer that I will plan to recite each Shabbat morning. If you also feel it’s important to pray for the U.S. government but also feel you cannot pray for the success of this President, feel free to use this or adapt it as you please. I felt that it was not enough to simply avoid the U.S. President in the prayer for the government but to remind myself of the billions of vulnerable people who are at risk under his rule, and challenge myself each Shabbat to build up the strength for another week of spiritual resistance. . . .
A Prayer on US Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd 2020. . . .
Contributor(s): Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Martin Samuel Cohen and Masorti Movement in Israel
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Categories: Yom Habḥirut, Elections & Voting, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
Tags: tolerance of difference, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, disagreement, difference disagreement and deviance, ישראל Yisrael, 2020 Israeli legislative election 
Based on the Prayer For Freedom from Strife and the Prayer that One Be a Lover and a Pursuer of Peace taken from the Liqutei Tefilot of Reb Nosson of Nemirov. Edited and reworked by Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum. English Translation: Rabbi Martin S. Cohen. . . .
This prayer for Tu biShvat, derived from the prayer included with the seder for Tu biShvat, the Pri Ets Hadar, are based on the Ḳabbalah of the four worlds and the ancient idea that everything physical is an image of the spiritual. . . .
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). . . .
Contributor(s): Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater
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Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Asher Yatsar, Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)
Tags: all bodies, transgender bodies, disabled bodies, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אשר יצר Asher Yatsar, אשר יצר, North Amercia 
Asher Yatzar (the “bathroom blessing”, traditionally said every morning and after every time one goes to relieve oneself) has always rung hollow to me, at best, and at worst has been a prayer not celebrating beauty but highlighting pain. The original version praises bodies whose nekavim nekavim ḥalulim ḥalulim (“all manner of ducts and tubes”) are properly opened and closed—yes, in a digestive/excretory sense, but it is quite easy to read a reproductive sense into it as well. What do you do if the “ducts and tubes” in your body are not properly opened and closed, what if one is open that should be closed, or vice versa? . . .
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). . . .
This closing prayer for Washington’s Birthday as first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951). . . .
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. . . .
A prayer for thanksgiving day in the United States by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . .
A private prayer for fulfilling your civic duty and voting, whether in a voting booth or by mail. The concluding partial berakhah (without its full preamble, so as to avoid a berakhah levatala) is traditionally stated upon seeing a king of a nation, so in a democratic regime it seems appropriate to adopt for the voters. . . .
A prayer for the safety and well-being of women who are victims of violence, and especially domestic violence. . . .
Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman introduced the tradition of reading these verses from Isaiah during the month of Kislev through the end of Ḥanukkah in his Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev of Kehillat Kol HaNeshamah (R’ Levi Weiman-Kelman, R’ Ma’ayan Turner, and Shaul Vardi, 2007). The translation provided here was adapted from the one made by Shaul Vardi in Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev. –Aharon Varady. . . .
A prayer for intellectual honesty before study. . . .
A “mi sheberakh” prayer for U.S. war veterans on the shabbat preceding Veterans Day (November 11). . . .
Contributor(s): David Zvi Kalman
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Categories: Prayers During Public Readings of the Tanakh, Government & Country, Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
Tags: United States, voting, democracy, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Philadelphia, United States General Election 2016, civic prayers 
A prayer for the electorate to be recited together with the Prayer for Government on the Shabbat before an election (federal, state, or local). . . .
On Tuesday, we go to the polls in a momentous election that for many of us has generated a combination of anxiety, excitement, fear, and confusion. We offer you this prayer, which you can recite this Shabbat, before you vote, or while you are waiting for returns. . . .
The full text of Rabbi Julie Schonfeld’s benediction offered at the end of the first day of the Democratic National Convention, July 25th, 2016. . . .
This formulation of the Birkat Yeladim (Blessing of the Children) maintains a connection with tradition and serves to degender the blessing by calling upon quoted, mixed gender texts which have merit for children of any gender. . . .
Yizkor and other prayers for Shemini Atsertet during the coronavirus pandemic in 5781 (2020). . . .
Contributor(s): Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D.
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Categories: the Wet Season (Fall & Winter), Sukkot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)
Tags: North America, פיוטים piyyutim, Imahot, Matriarchs, Rain, Geshem, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers for Precipitation, גשם 
The time of Sukkot is a time of fullness and generosity, but also a time to pray for the coming season. Shemini Atzeret, the festival when we pray for rain, is an expression of our need for water, which in the Jewish tradition symbolizes life, renewal, and deliverance. Tefillat Geshem, a graceful fixture of the Ashkenazic liturgy, invokes the patriarchs as exemplars of holiness and model recipients of God’s love. This prayer uses water as a metaphor for devotion and faith, asking that God grant us life-sustaining rain. While its authorship is unknown, it is sometimes attributed to Elazar Kallir, the great liturgist who lived sometime during the first millenium. Each year, we are reminded of our people’s connection to the patriarchs and to the rhythms of water, spiritual and physical sources of life, through this medieval piyyut. While we know that rain is a natural process, formal thanksgiving for water as a source of life, energy, and beauty reminds us that our Creator is the source of our physical world and its many wonders. . . .
A Hoshana prayer supplement for Hoshana Rabbah during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in 2020. . . .
If you are doing a Rosh Hashanah seder of simanim (signs, augurs, portents) using food puns, here are some additions related to today (with apologies for any Hebrew mistakes I’ve made). . . .
Contributor(s): David Wolkin
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Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Days of Judgement, Self-Reflection
Tags: North America, journaling, writing, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, self-reflection, תשובה teshuvah, Needing Translation (into Hebrew) 
David Wolkin writes, “I’ve been pushing this writing exercise for a while now, but I taught a class with it in my home on Sunday and it proved to be powerful and connecting for all of us in the room. If you’re reflecting/repenting this season, you might benefit from this.” . . .
Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Categories: Ecotastrophes, Epidemics & Pandemics, Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, September 2020 Western United States wildfires, 2020 United States racial reckoning, State v. Chauvin 
A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow in 2021 reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. . . .
Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Categories: Ecotastrophes, Epidemics & Pandemics, Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, September 2020 Western United States wildfires, 2020 United States racial reckoning 
A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. . . .
A prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor reflecting on the challenges of the year 2020 up till Rosh haShanah. . . .
Two kavvanot, one for before and one for after casting away in a Tashlikh ritual. . . .
The Raḥamana piyyut is a litany beloved in Sephardic and Mizraḥi communities, a standard part of their Seliḥoth services throughout the month of Elul and the days of repentance. Traditionally it cites a list of Biblical men (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Pinhas, David, and Solomon) and asks to be remembered for their merit and their covenants, for the sake of “Va-yaŋabor” — the first word of Exodus 34:6, the introduction to the verses of the Thirteen Attributes recited in Seliḥoth services. This text instead uses Biblical women (Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel, Serach, Miriam, Deborah, Ruth, Hannah, and Esther). . . .
A reading for the New Year’s Day for Animals — Rosh haShanah laBehemot — on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul. . . .
The full text of Rabbi David Wolpe’s benediction offered at the end of the second day of the Democratic National Convention, September 6th, 2012. . . .
A prayer for children on the first day of a new year of school. . . .
A kiddush for the se’udah (feast) preceding Yom Kippur and its fast. . . .
A 21st century recasting of the iconic 13th century Spanish mystical Rosh haShanah piyyut. . . .
This acrostic poetic form of Birkat haMazon was written for the se’udah mafseqet (pre-fast meal) before Yom Kippur, in the manner of the poetic Birkat haMazon variants recorded in the Cairo Geniza. . . .
A prayer upon the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009. . . .
A prayer for health and safety in public, communal prayer during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. . . .
This is a poetic text for Birkat haMazon, signed with an alphabetical acrostic and the name of the author, to be recited on the first of Elul. It celebrates the variety of God’s creation as exemplified by the natural diversity of species, as well as alluding to the livestock tithes traditionally assigned on the first of Elul. . . .
An adaptation of the prayer Elohai Neshama in honor of a bar mitsvah. . . .
Contributor(s): Esteban Gottfried and Isser Yehuda Unterman
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Categories: Government & Country
Tags: peace, Beit Tefillah Yisraeli, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Yaffo, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers for municipalities, Yapho, ישראל Yisrael, Needing Translation (into English), Needing Translation (into Arabic) 
A prayer was composed by Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, for the city’s 50th anniversary (Jubilee) celebration, amended by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried of Beit Tefillah Yisraeli. . . .
An adaptation of a short portion of David Einhorn’s work, Olat Tamid, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin. Olah Hadashah—”a new offering”—is, he writes, “an attempt to bring this assurance into the present. Using modern English, gender-neutral language, and including the matriarchs in the Amidah, I hope to make a little sliver of Einhorn’s genius accessible to today’s Jews. In so doing, I hope we can find renewed purpose in our fight for justice, rooted in renewed appreciation of Judaism’s moral imperatives.” . . .
A ḳinnah for humanity’s willful, negligent, and callous destruction of habitat and species known and unknown. . . .
A Birkat haMazon with additions for the pre-Fast meal of Tisha b’Av . . .
Siddur Olas Tamid is a Hebrew-only, nusaḥ Ashkenaz siddur compiled by Aaron Wolf and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Based upon the Siddur Tefilos Sefos Yisroel compiled by R’ Rallis Wiesenthal, Siddur Olas Tamid was laid out and formatted in open-source XeLaTeX code shared from Aaron Wolf’s github account. . . .
A prayer offered in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, by Rav Shmuly Yanklowitz (Valley Beit Midrash) . . .
An opening prayer for divine communication and closeness. . . .
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. . . .
Contributor(s): David Nelson (translation), Moshe Silberschein (translation) and Dalia Marx
Shared on ח׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), Terror
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Gaza, protection, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Occupation, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, נעילה neilah, Israeli disengagement from Gaza 
A prayer for the State of Israel during conflicts over sovereignty and dispossession. . . .
An alternative weekday aliyah. . . .
A prayer for the ingathering of Jews from the Diaspora to Erets Yisrael. . . .
Four morning blessings inspired from traditional blessing in the Birkhot haShaḥar and Shaḥarit services. . . .
Contributor(s): Alona Lisitsa
Shared on י״ד באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Learning, Study, and School
Tags: children, Parents blessing children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers for Children, Prayers for students, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for children at the onset of the school year. . . .
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