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מִימִינִי מִיכָאֵל | “Mikhael is on my right,” the angelic invocation for divine protection from the Ḳriyat Shema al haMitah

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Bedtime Shema
Tags:	sleep, Angels, Before Sleep, Angelic Protection, שכינה Shekhinah, apotropaic prayers of protection, danger, night
	The “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in many contemporary siddurim. . . .

אײן אנשפראכע געגען עין הרע | An Incantation against the Ayin haRa (1896)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler (translation)
Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Theurgy
Tags:	אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, Healing, עין הרע evil eye, danger, historiola, shamanic praxis, predatory gaze, incantation, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
	This tkhine offers a formula for providing relief to a very ill person, and as such, should only be used as a supplement to recommendations provided by an expert physician or nurse. The source of the tkhine is Tkhine of a Highly Respected Woman, Budapest, 1896; and transcribed from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. . . .

כעבור סופה | After the Storm: A Prayer to Choose Life by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

Contributor(s):	David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Dangerous Storms & Floods, Ecotastrophes
Tags:	ecoḥasid, Hurricane Florence, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., בקשות Baqashot, 58th century A.M., Hebrew translation, eco-conscious, Hurricane Sandy, weather, taking responsibility, emergency, Hurricane Harvey, danger
	The prayers for hurricane victims that are circulating through the Open Siddur Project and elsewhere are poignant and heartfelt, but they don’t speak an important piece of the truth that we need to hear. What about our collective responsibility for climate disruption that undoubtedly increases the harm caused by this and every major storm? And what about the Deuteronomic promise that God brings us recompense for our actions davka through the weather? Here’s an attempt at a prayer that incorporates a deeper understanding of our responsibility. For the final version of this prayer, I started with an anonymous Hebrew translation of my original English prayer, then I tweaked it and wove in scriptural references, and retranslated it back into English. . . .

מימיני מיכאל | “Mikhael is on my right,” an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Bedtime Shema from the Maḥzor Vitry (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Dan Levene, Dalia Marx and Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry
Categories:	Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Bedtime Shema
Tags:	Before Sleep, Angelic Protection, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, apotropaic prayers of protection, danger, night, Angels of Healing, sleep, Angels
	An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .

כשיוצא אדם בלילה | When a person goes out at night: an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Dan Levene, Dalia Marx and Amram Ben Rav Sheshna
Categories:	Bedtime Shema, Travel
Tags:	Angelic Protection, שכינה Shekhinah, mid-first millennium CE, apotropaic prayers of protection, 9th century C.E., traveler, 47th century A.M., danger, night, Angels
	An apotropaic prayer of protection for traveling at night containing an “angels on all sides” formula. . . .

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מִימִינִי מִיכָאֵל | “Mikhael is on my right,” the angelic invocation for divine protection from the Ḳriyat Shema al haMitah

אײן אנשפראכע געגען עין הרע | An Incantation against the Ayin haRa (1896)

כעבור סופה | After the Storm: A Prayer to Choose Life by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

מימיני מיכאל | “Mikhael is on my right,” an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Bedtime Shema from the Maḥzor Vitry (ca. 11th c.)

כשיוצא אדם בלילה | When a person goes out at night: an apotropaic invocation of angelic protection in the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.)

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