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tag: עלינו Aleinu Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The prayer, Aleinu, as read by Sepharadim, with an English translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool. . . . Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of an abridged form of the prayer Aleinu in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . . Categories: Aleinu Richard Collis’s English translation of Aleinu with Al Kein and Al Tira is provided in the liner notes for tracks 61 and 62 of his album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (2019). . . . Categories: Aleinu An earlier form of the prayer known as Aleinu, as found in the esoteric Jewish literature of the first millennium CE. . . . This prayer by Glikl bat Yehudah Leib was made from the text transcribed and published in Chava Turniansky’s critical edition, Glikl: Memoirs (1691-1719) (Shazar 2006), pp. 242-244, and Sara Friedman’s English translation of that edition, edited by Turniansky (Brandeis University Press 2019), p. 144. . . . Tags: 18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., עלינו Aleinu, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): Chava Turniansky (transcription), Sara Friedman (translation) and Glikl bat Yehudah Leib “Olenu” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 80-81. . . . Categories: Aleinu The Aleinu prayer with an English translation of Dr. Jakob Petuchowski. The end of “She’hu noteh shamayim” and the beginning of “Al Ken” contain a revisionist (or “redemptive”) paraliturgical translation. . . . Categories: Aleinu Aleinu, as rewritten in Hebrew and English for Ḥavurat Shalom, Somerville, Massachusetts. . . . Categories: Aleinu These are a series of kavvanot prepared by Rabbi Emanuel S. Goldsmith (1935-2024), z”l, for a Shaḥarit service containing the call to prayer (Barkhu), the blessings preceding the Shema, tthe conclusion of the Amidah, before and after the Torah reading service, and Aleinu. Rabbi Ben Newman, who shared these kavvanot in eulogy for Rabbi Goldsmith in a Facebook post, writes, “My dear teacher, friend, and mentor Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Goldsmith died on Friday. He was an amazing man who taught me a lot about how to be a rabbi, a Reconstructionist, a liturgist, philosopher of religion, and Yiddishist. He also was the “head rabbi” who officiated at my wedding to Rabbi Shoshana Leis….I had him write out for me [these kavvanot] when I substituted for him leading at Congregation Mvakshe Derekh in Scarsdale, NY, 20 years ago as a student rabbi.” . . . Categories: Before the Aliyot, Birkat Ahavah, Barkhu, After the Aliyot, Aleinu, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty A “redemptive translation” of Aleinu emphasizing universalist Jewish values. . . . Categories: Aleinu This version of the Aleinu recognizes that all nations play a role in God’s plan for humanity. . . . Categories: Aleinu Leon Gunther presents a proposal for a revision of the controversial line of the traditional Aleinu prayer, shehem mishtaḥavim l’hevel varik (“For they worship ephemera and emptiness, and pray to a god who cannot save,” a combination of Isaiah 30:7 and Isaiah 45:20). . . . Categories: Aleinu A paraliturgical reflection of the prayer Aleinu for a shame resilience practice . . . Categories: Aleinu | ||
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