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![]() ![]() 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). . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() A paraliturgical reflection of the prayer Aleinu for a shame resilience practice . . . ![]() ![]() 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). . . . ![]() ![]() This version of the Aleinu recognizes that all nations play a role in God’s plan for humanity. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() A “redemptive translation” of Aleinu emphasizing universalist Jewish values. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() 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). . . . ![]() ![]() Aleinu, as rewritten in Hebrew and English for Ḥavurat Shalom, Somerville, Massachusetts. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() The prayer, Aleinu, as read by Sepharadim, with an English translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() “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. . . . ![]() ![]() This prayer by Glikl of Hameln 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. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() An earlier form of the prayer known as Aleinu, as found in the esoteric Jewish literature of the first millennium CE. . . . |