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Contributor(s): Daniel Kieval
Categories:  Marriage | Tags:  blessings, brakhot, interpretive translation, North America, teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., wedding day, English vernacular prayer, devotional interpretation, wedding blessings, sheva brakhot 
This is a poetic rendering of the sixth blessing (of the Sheva Brakhot/7 Blessings) for a wedding. It riffs off of themes and language in the Hebrew text of joy, love, and companionship, and invocations of the Garden of Eden, creation, and eternity. Written originally for the wedding of friends; I hope you’ll feel free to adapt and rework it however suits your needs! . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Ma'ariv/Arvit, Shaḥarit, Musaf, Minḥah, Separation | Tags: blessings, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Post-prayer supplements, transition, Closing Prayers, Ḥatimot, Peer blessings, farewell blessings, love your fellow as yourself, havdalot 
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included this list of peer blessings for after davvening in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Essays, Documents, Art, and Craft | Tags: blessings, brakhot, interpretive translation, Dawn, Late Antiquity, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, 100 blessings a day, wrestling, challenge, Yisrael, devotional interpretation 
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of the Birkhot haShaḥar in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . . Contributor(s): Shelby Handler
Categories: Separation, Havdalah | Tags: blessings, brakhot, North America, 21st century C.E., Adamah Farm, 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer 
The Blessing over Separations was first read by Shelby Handler on Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev at the 2017 ADVA Reunion, a reunion of the community of Adamah Farm fellows and Teva Learning Center educators at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. . . . Contributor(s): Adina Allen
Categories: Work | Tags: blessings, creativity, brakhot, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Constructivism, San Francisco 
“A Blessing for Creating” comes by way of David A.M. Wilensky (with approval by the blessing’s author, Rabbi Adina Allen) who shared a photo on Facebook of a posterboard on which the blessing was written. The poster was made for the first ever Kabbalat Shabbat organized by the Jewish Studio Project, whose mission is “to activate creativity in individuals and communities to reclaim Jewish values, make meaning in our lives and restore hope to the world.” Vocalization added by Aharon Varady. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Netanel Miles-Yépez and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Justice and Peace, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Theurgy | Tags: blessings, water, shehakol 
A blessing by Reb Zalman for Peace, Health, Joy, Prosperity, and Kindness which he wrote in spray paint on a municipal water tank behind his house in Colorado. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Categories: Rosh haShanah for Behemot (Domesticated/Tame Animals), Environment, Halakhah, Feasting, Self-Reflection | Tags: blessings, eco-conscious, brakhot, ecoḥasid 
The Talmud (Brakhot 35a-b) teaches that eating food without saying a brakhah (a blessing) beforehand is like stealing. A lot of people know that teaching, and it’s pretty deep. But here’s an even deeper part: the Talmud doesn’t call it “stealing”, but מעילה ׁ(“me’ilah“), which means taking from sacred property that belongs to the Temple. So that means that everything in the world is sacred and this Creation is like a HOLY TEMPLE. . . . Contributor(s): Andrew Shaw
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Morning siddur | Tags: blessings, Wakefulness, Gratitude, Jewish Renewal, Needing Decompilation 
In these still, quiet moments I am not asleep, and not yet awake. In the threshold of day and night, with the mixture of darkness and light, my body is once again coming to life. I am reborn, each day, from the womb of your compassion. May all of my actions be worthy of the faith you’ve placed in me. With words of thanks I’ll greet the dawn. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
Categories: Community News | Tags: blessings, contributors, Memorial prayers 
We just learned that yesterday (April 27, 2010) that John Bruno Hare, founder of the Internet Sacred Texts Archive, passed away. John’s last decade of life was deeply invested in breathing life into public domain texts that had never been digitized. All this material was released back into the world as freely licensed content. Just . . . |
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