This closing prayer for Arbor Day, “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), p. 86. . . .
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Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn and Mordecai Kaplan
Shared on כ״ז בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories:  Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Arbor Day (April 24th)
Tags:  20th century C.E., ecumenical prayers, United States, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, planting trees
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn and Mordecai Kaplan
Shared on כ״ז בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Arbor Day (April 24th)
Tags: 20th century C.E., ecumenical prayers, United States, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, planting trees 
This opening prayer for Arbor Day, “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), p. 3-4 — as preface to a number of readings selected by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams for the day. . . . 
Contributor(s): Barry Block
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A prayer for the government on a day of violent insurrection in the heart of American democracy. . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
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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. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Abernethy
Shared on כ״ז בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license 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 . . . 
Contributor(s): Lauren Berkun
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Tags: United States, Benediction, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Democratic National Conventions, Democratic National Convention 2020, United States General Election 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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Lauren Grabelle Herrmann
Shared on י״ח במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-11-04) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
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A prayer for the day after the US day of elections that all votes be counted. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zackary Sholem Berger
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Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., United States Immigration Policy, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedek tsedek tirdof 
A prayer for a government when that government is causing pain through malicious policies. . . . 
Contributor(s): Joe Schwartz
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“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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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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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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation) and Shai Held
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A Prayer on US Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd 2020. . . . 
Contributor(s): Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Martin Samuel Cohen and Masorti Movement in Israel
Shared on ד׳ באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Elections & Voting, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, Yom Habḥirut
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rebecca Ennen
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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): Isabel Bard (translation) and Esteban Gottfried
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Tags: שמירת הגוף shmirat haguf, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חיסון vaccination, COVID-19 coronavirus, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel 
A kavvanah before a vaccination offered by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried of Ḳ.Ḳ. Beit Tefilah Yisraeli in Tel Aviv. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation), Knesset haRabanim b'Yisrael and Masorti Movement in Israel
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A set of two prayers: one for those administering and another for those receiving vaccinations. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Stephen Vincent Benét
Shared on ט׳ בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), United Nations Day (October 24th), Brotherhood Week (February 19th-28th), Flag Day (June 14)
Tags: 20th century C.E., United States, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Universal Peace, World War II, vexillology, universalist prayers 
This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
Shared on ה׳ באייר ה׳תשע״ג (2013-04-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Yom Ha'atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), Independence Day (July 4th), Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)
Tags: eco-conscious, Gratitude, על הנסים al hanissim, acquisition, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Indigenous Peoples, Nodeh L'kha, primordial scream, stewardship, shomrah ul'ovdah, colonization, conquest, settlement, refugees, immigration, sanctuary, subjugation, hegemony, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), מודים Modim 
Opportunities to express gratitude on secular, nationalist days of thanksgiving demand acknowledgement of an almost unfathomably deep history of trauma — not only the suffering and striving of my immigrant ancestors, but the sacrifice of all those who endured suffering dealt by their struggle to survive, and often failure to survive, the oppressions dealt by colonization, conquest, hegemony, natural disaster. Only the Earth (from which we, earthlings were born, Bnei Adam from Adamah) has witnessed the constancy of the violent deprivations we inflict upon each other. The privilege I’ve inherited from these sacrifices has come at a cost, and it must be honestly acknowledged, especially on secular/national days of thanksgiving, independence, and freedom. I insert this prayer after Al Hanissim in the Amidah and in the Birkat Hamazon on national days of independence and thanksgiving. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Aharon N. Varady
Shared on ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ג (2012-11-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)
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A prayer for thanksgiving day in the United States by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on ח׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
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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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Knesset haRabanim b'Yisrael and Masorti Movement in Israel
Shared on ט״ז בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25th)
Tags: community support, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, domestic violence 
A prayer for the safety and well-being of women who are victims of violence, and especially domestic violence. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Yeshayahu ben Amoz
Shared on י״ב בכסלו ה׳תשע״ח (2017-11-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Kabbalat Shabbat, Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev
Tags: כבוד kavod, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., South Jerusalem, Kehilat Kol HaNeshama 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Leslie Weatherhead and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-11-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Torah Study
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers before Torah Study, authority vs. integrity 
A prayer for intellectual honesty before study. . . . 
Contributor(s): Arnold E. Resnicoff
Shared on כ״ד במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-11-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Armistice Day (a/k/a Veterans Day, November 11)
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A virtual prayer for Veterans Day 2020. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Zvi Kalman
Shared on ח׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ז (2016-11-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Prayers During Public Readings of the Tanakh, Government & Country, Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
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A prayer for the electorate to be recited together with the Prayer for Government on the Shabbat before an election (federal, state, or local). . . . 
Contributor(s): T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Lev Meirowitz Nelson
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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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Julie Schonfeld
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Tags: United States, Benediction, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States General Election 2016, Democratic National Convention 2016, Democratic National Conventions 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yonah Bromberg Gaber
Shared on ד׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Erev Shabbat, Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)
Tags: Parents blessing children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers for Children, genderqueer, nonbinary, birkat yeladim 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Amit Gvaryahu and Yedidah Koren
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Yizkor and other prayers for Shemini Atsertet during the coronavirus pandemic in 5781 (2020). . . . 
Contributor(s): Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D.
Shared on כ״ט בטבת ה׳תשע״ו (2016-01-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license 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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Shlomo Zuckier
Shared on כ״א בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Hoshana Rabbah, Epidemics & Pandemics
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A Hoshana prayer supplement for Hoshana Rabbah during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in 2020. . . . Topical Additions to the Seder Akhilat haSimanim from Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org) for 2020
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
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Tags: eco-conscious, symbolic foods, punning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid 
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
Shared on כ״ב באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license 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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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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
Shared on כ״ט באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, COVID-19 coronavirus, September 2020 Western United States wildfires, 2020 Atlantic hurricane season 
A prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor reflecting on the challenges of the year 2020 up till Rosh haShanah. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on כ״ח באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tashlikh
Tags: eco-conscious, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid, תשליך tashlikh 
Two kavvanot, one for before and one for after casting away in a Tashlikh ritual. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on י״א באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah
Tags: סליחות seliḥot, egalitarian, traditional egalitarian, פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Biblical Women 
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). . . . Shared on כ״ז באייר ה׳תשע״ט (2019-06-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: 20th century C.E., acrostic, days of awe, 58th century A.M., Acrostic signature, ישראל Yisrael, Needing Translation (into English), Needing citation references, Needing Vocalization Loading . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and the Masoretic Text
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Tags: animals, animal welfare, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim, animal protection, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., domesticated animals, בלק Balaq, giving voice to the voiceless 
A reading for the New Year’s Day for Animals — Rosh haShanah laBehemot — on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and David J. Wolpe
Shared on י״ט בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Government & Country, Elections & Voting
Tags: United States, Benediction, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Democratic National Conventions, Democratic National Convention 2012, United States General Election 2012 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
Shared on י״ב באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Learning, Study, and School
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, Prayers for students, 2020 coronavirus pandemic 
A prayer for children on the first day of a new year of school. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on י׳ בתשרי ה׳תש״פ (2019-10-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: kiddush, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
A kiddush for the se’udah (feast) preceding Yom Kippur and its fast. . . . 
Contributor(s): Raysh Weiss and Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)
Shared on ג׳ בתשרי ה׳תש״פ (2019-10-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Rosh Hashanah
Tags: acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Acrostic signature 
A 21st century recasting of the iconic 13th century Spanish mystical Rosh haShanah piyyut. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״א באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Acrostic signature, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Ilana Streit
Shared on ט״ו בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Government & Country, Coronations & Inaugurations
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, American Jewry of the United States, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama 
A prayer upon the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009. . . . 
Contributor(s): Louis Polisson and Binyamin Holtzman
Shared on ו׳ בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (2020-09-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Maale Gilboa, ישראל Yisrael, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel 
A prayer for health and safety in public, communal prayer during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. . . . 
Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Shared on י״ז באייר ה׳תשע״ח (2018-05-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license 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
Shared on י״א בטבת ה׳תשע״ב (2012-01-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, Leil Pesaḥ, 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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״ט באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Behemah
Tags: acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Acrostic signature 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi and Yael Schweid
Shared on כ״ב באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Translation (into English), אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah 
An adaptation of the prayer Elohai Neshama in honor of a bar mitsvah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Esteban Gottfried and Isser Yehuda Unterman
Shared on ט׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ג (2012-11-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license 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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Joshua Giorgio-Rubin
Shared on ט״ו באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-04) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shabbat Siddurim
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
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.” . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on ט׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ecotastrophes, Tisha b'Av
Tags: eco-conscious, קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid 
A ḳinnah for humanity’s willful, negligent, and callous destruction of habitat and species known and unknown. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on ט׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Blessings After Eating, Tisha b'Av
Tags: acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket 
A Birkat haMazon with additions for the pre-Fast meal of Tisha b’Av . . . 
Contributor(s): Aaron Wolf
Shared on ו׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ח (2018-03-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Tefiloh Sefas Yisroel, German Jewish customs 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Shmuly Yanklowitz and Simcha Daniel Burstyn (translation)
Shared on י״ד באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Hebrew translation, Epidemic, English vernacular prayer, Pandemic, 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19 coronavirus, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, Needing Vocalization 
A prayer offered in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, by Rav Shmuly Yanklowitz (Valley Beit Midrash) . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
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: Weekday Amidah
Tags: 21st century C.E., פתיחות Petiḥot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, dveykut, Private Amidah, הנני hineni 
An opening prayer for divine communication and closeness. . . . 
Contributor(s): Tamar Duvdevani
Shared on ז׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Travel
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for safe travel. . . . 
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: Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), Terror, Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Gaza, protection, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Occupation, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, neilah, Israeli disengagement from Gaza 
A prayer for the State of Israel during conflicts over sovereignty and dispossession. . . . 
Contributor(s): Dahlia Shaham
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: Weekday Amidah
Tags: weekday amidah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
An alternative weekday aliyah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Noa Mazor
Shared on ז׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Weekday Amidah
Tags: weekday amidah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for the ingathering of Jews from the Diaspora to Erets Yisrael. . . . 
Contributor(s): Michal Ratner Ken-tor
Shared on ז׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Travel
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for safe travel. . . . 
Contributor(s): Orna Meir-Stacey (translation) and Tamar Duvdevani
Shared on ג׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
Four morning blessings inspired from traditional blessing in the Birkhot haShaḥar and Shaḥarit services. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yehoyada Amir
Shared on י״ד בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Ha'atsma'ut (5 Iyyar)
Tags: מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, על הנסים al hanissim, Progressive Zionism, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, מודים Modim 
An al hanissim prayer for the State of Israel’s Day of Independence. . . . 
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. . . . 
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: מי שברך mi sheberakh, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Teacher, Prayers of Teachers, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for teachers at the onset of the school year. . . . 
Contributor(s): Alona Lisitsa
Shared on ט׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Agunah Day
Tags: agunot, get, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for women caught up in the torment of ‘get’ refusal from a husband who refuses to grant them the document required for a religious divorce. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oded Mazor
Shared on י׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Arvit l'Shabbat
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Amidah, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A short amidah for the Friday evening service for Shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oded Mazor
Shared on ט׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Erev Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, חלה challah ḥallah, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for focusing one’s mind and intention during the separation of dough in the preparation of halah before Shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oded Mazor
Shared on ג׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Arvit l'Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., יגדל yigdal, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A companion to the classic piyyut, Yigdal. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rabbi Lior Nevo (translation) and Rabbah Rinat Safania
Shared on א׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mussar (Ethical Teachings), Shaḥarit
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Avot and Imahot, Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A summary of the lineage of the Mesorah, as it passed through generations of Israelite and Jewish women. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (2010-11-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
Tags: eco-conscious, United States, democratic process, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., global warming, global climate change, ecoḥasid 
This prayer is broadly speaking a prayer that we learn to work together to create a better future, and it incorporates a pledge to do one thing for healing the world, for tikkun olam, that will make this future a reality. It’s not a prayer about winning or getting other people to see things our way, like some of the others I’ve seen. Whomever we support, we need to pray for strength for the next president, and for the whole country, to face what will be challenging times. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and David Saperstein
Shared on י״ט בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Government & Country, Elections & Voting
Tags: United States, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Democratic National Conventions, Democratic National Convention 2008, United States General Election 2008, Invocation 
The full text of Rabbi David Saperstein’s invocation offered on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, August 8th, 2008. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
Shared on כ״ו בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, the Zohar
Tags: interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical k'gavna 
A paraliturgical translation of “k’Gavna” — a portion of the Zohar on parashat Terumah read before Ma’ariv in the ḥassidic-sefardic nusaḥ. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״ו בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Black Lives Matter, George Floyd protests, anti-fascist actions, Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials 
The argument that “statues preserve our heritage” is not one the halakhah tolerates, especially when the statues are celebrating the perpetrators of horrible atrocities. Here’s a service for those interested in fulfilling the Biblical commandment of destroying idolatrous statues. #BLM . . . 
Contributor(s): Eugene Kohn, John Paul Williams, Mordecai Kaplan and Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation
Shared on ז׳ בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Pulpit & Ceremonial Prayer collections, Interfaith & Ecumenical collections of prayers
Tags: 20th century C.E., ecumenical prayers, 58th century A.M., civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, reconstructing Judaism 
A collection of civic prayers, poems, and readings arranged for thirteen civic holidays in the United States. . . . 
Contributor(s): Morrison David Bial
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical Prayer collections, Pulpit & Ceremonial Prayer collections, Interfaith & Ecumenical collections of prayers
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., New Jersey 
A collection of public, pulpit prayers, ceremonial, and other prayers to supplement the Siddur. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Avraham Samuel Soltes
Shared on ט׳ במרחשון ה׳תש״פ (2019-11-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Pulpit & Ceremonial Prayer collections
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., New Jersey 
A collection of public and pulpit prayers composed by Rabbi Abraham Samuel Soltes between 1948 and 1959. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ל׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ו (2016-02-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Travel
Tags: 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 
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): Menachem Creditor
Shared on כ״א באלול ה׳תשע״ט (2019-09-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Days of Judgement
Tags: סליחות seliḥot, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical seliḥot 
One small request to accompany the seliḥot service. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aryeh Cohen
Shared on א׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Tisha b'Av
Tags: קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., welcome the immigrant, United States Immigration Policy, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, אוי oy 
A ḳinnah composed in response to the agonizing and cruel United States immigration policy implemented under the presidency of Donald Trump. . . . 
Contributor(s): Michal Talya and Avraham Leader (translation)
Shared on י״ד בכסלו ה׳תשע״ט (2018-11-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., confession, על חטא Al Ḥeyt, acknowledgment, ישראל Yisrael 
This vidui (confession), based on the traditional pattern of Yom Kipur confession, was written around 2011by Michal Talya and is used by several liberal communities in Israel. . . . 
Contributor(s): Joseph B. Meszler (translation) and Binyamin Holtzman
Shared on ט׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ה (2014-10-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui, Maale Gilboa, acknowledgment, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, ישראל Yisrael 
A complementary (positive vidui) to supplement the harsh communal and personal vidu’im (confessions) being offered during the Zman Teshuvah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Avi Weiss
Shared on כ״ז באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, North America, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., New York, Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, Open Orthodoxy, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui 
Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez writes, “Rav Avi spoke to us a few times as he was working through [composing] this [vidui] and I am truly moved by it. Let us not only remember and confess our wrong doings, but also what we did right this year.” . . . 
Contributor(s): Julia Mossbridge
Shared on י״ח בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Shema
Tags: interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical shema 
A paraliturgical translation of the opening paragraph of the Shema. . . . 
Contributor(s): United States Congressional Record and Arnold E. Resnicoff
Shared on ה׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-23) — under the following terms: Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works) Categories: Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags: תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States of America, House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, 116th Congress 
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 October 2020. . . .
Contributor(s): United States Congressional Record and Seth H. Frisch
Shared on ט״ו בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-10) — under the following terms: Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works) Categories: Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags: תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States of America, House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, 116th Congress
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 February 2020. . . . 
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
Shared on י״א בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags: Gratitude, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Needing Vocalization, מודים Modim 
A short prayer of gratitude in the midst of a global pandemic and civil unrest. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation) and Samuel Francis Smith
Shared on ב׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-25) — under the following terms: Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works) Categories: Memorial Day (last Monday of May)
Tags: 20th century C.E., United States, זמירות zemirot, 58th century A.M., Yiddish translation, Yiddish songs, American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic prayers, doikayt, hereness, God Save the Queen 
The well-known patriotic hymn with a Yiddish translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aurora Mendelsohn
Shared on ו׳ בניסן ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Leil Pesaḥ, Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Indigenous Peoples, haggadah supplements, parashat ḥayyei sarah 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on א׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Purim Sheni Readings
Tags: United States, emancipation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, American Jewry of the United States, American Civil War, General Order No. 11, Ulysses Grant, Cesar Kaskel 
A megillah for a Purim Sheni commemorating a day of salvation the Jewry of the United States during the Civil War. . . . 
Contributor(s): Hannah Spiro
Shared on כ״ט באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah, Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., District of Columbia, Hill Havurah 
A bilingual Hebrew and English High Holiday (Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur) maḥzor prepared for the Hill Havurah congregation in Washington, D.C. . . . 
Contributor(s): Arnold E. Resnicoff
Shared on כ״ח באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Memorial Day (last Monday of May)
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
Invocation for a virtual Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . . 
Contributor(s): Daniel Yoel Cohen
Shared on ז׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ז (2016-10-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Yom Kippur, Days of Judgement, Self-Reflection
Tags: וידוי vidui, repentance, integrity, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acknowledgment, paraliturgical vidui 
Vidui means acknowledgment. It is not about self-flagellation or blame, but about honesty, coming into contact with our lives, our patterns and experiences, and ultimately about teshuva and learning. In contacting the pain and suffering which our modes of being have given rise to, our regret can help us to willfully divest ourselves of them and awaken the yearning for those modes of being which are life-affirming, supportive of wholeness, connection, integrity, and flourishing. With each one we tap on our heart, touching the pain and closed-heartedness we have caused, and simultaneously knocking on the door that it may open again. . . . 
Contributor(s): Amitai Fraiman
Shared on א׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ט (2018-11-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Congregation & Community
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers for the Diaspora from Israel, Shazur שזור, in the merit of Aharon haKohen, ישראל Yisrael 
We have a prayer for the State of Israel, its army, government etc. but we do not have a non-judgmental, non-aliyah focused prayer for the welfare of Diaspora Jewry. This prayer offers a remedy for this absence. . . . 
Contributor(s): Ester Fuchs
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Government & Country
Tags: United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
A prayer for the government and of good governance in the United States of America. . . . 
Contributor(s): Len Fellman (translation) and the Masoretic Text
Shared on ט״ו בשבט ה׳תשע״ט (2019-01-20) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Sefer Shemot (Exodus), Parashat Yitro, Shavuot
Tags: English Translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillized readings in English, transtropilation, theophany, Har Sinai, Decalogue, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim 
A Torah reading of Parashat Yitro in English translation, transtropilized. . . . 
Contributor(s): Len Fellman (translation), the Masoretic Text and Yeḥezqel ben Būzi haKohen
Shared on כ״ד באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yeḥezqel (Ezekiel), Shavuot
Tags: English Translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillized readings in English, transtropilation, הפטרות haftarot 
The haftarah reading for the first day of Shavuot, in English translation, transtropilized. . . . 
Contributor(s): Len Fellman (translation) and the Masoretic Text
Shared on כ״ח באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ruth, Shavuot
Tags: English Translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Five Megillot, Cantillized readings in English, Megillah Readings in English, transtropilation 
A Megillah reading of Rūt (Ruth) with English translation, transtropilized. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman
Shared on ט״ו באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: שמע shema, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., רבון העולמים Ribon haOlamim, English vernacular prayer, shame resilience, kabbalat ol malkhut shamayim, paraliturgical ribon haOlamim 
A paraliturgical reflection of the prayer Ribon haOlamim for a shame resilience practice. . . . |
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