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English vernacular prayer —⟶ tag: English vernacular prayer Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The Amidah for the Shabbat Shaḥarit service in Reb Zalman’s devotional English adaptation, set side-by-side with the corresponding Hebrew liturgy. . . . Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov Shabbat Affirmations for erev shabbat in preparation of welcoming the shabbat. . . . Categories: Erev Shabbat An Untitled Prayer for Shaḥarit on days without Taḥanun after Psalms 15, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-ShalomiIn his Siddur Tehilat Hashem Yedaber Pi (2009), this untitled teḥinah appears just below Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi’s translation of Psalms 15 (recited on joyful and celebrative days when Taḥanun is not recited) and just above the Psalms of the Day section. We are not certain whether this teḥinah is an original prayer by Reb Zalman, a translation of an existing teḥinah found for Taḥanun, or a composite of teḥinot found in the Taḥanun service. . . . Categories: 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim) Opening Prayer for the Inaugural Boston City Council Meeting, by Rabbi Victor Reinstein (5 January 2009)The opening prayer offered before the Boston City Council on January 5th, 2009. . . . Categories: Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 January 2009. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Solomon Schiff on 18 June 2009The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 June 2009. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 25 June 2009. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Stephen Leon on 22 July 2009The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 22 July 2009. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jacob Luski on 28 October 2009The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 October 2009. . . . A Jewish Prayer for Graduation and an Interfaith Meditation on Wisdom and Learning, by Jonah Rank (2010)A Jewish Prayer for Graduation and an Interfaith Meditation on Wisdom and Learning, by Rabbi Jonah Rank (2010) . . . Categories: Learning, Study, and School Raising the Olive Branch in Solidarity with Palestinian Olive Farmers: A Tu biShvat Seder supplement by Rabbi Arik Ascherman (2010)A Tu biShvat seder supplement recognizing the Israeli-Jewish settler violence and land theft under the State of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank. . . . Three short havdallah meditations that culminate in a havdallah prayer/blessing. . . . Categories: Motsei Shabbat Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Gil Steinlauf on 27 January 2010The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 January 2010. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein on 5 May 2010The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 May 2010. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Joshua Davidson on 16 June 2010The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 June 2010. . . . 🗍 הגדה לסדר פסח | The Wandering is Over Haggadah: Including Women’s Voices, by Jewish Boston and the Jewish Women’s Archive (2011)A Passover Haggadah compiled by Jewish Boston and the Jewish Women’s Archive containing numerous haggadah supplements. . . . Categories: Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ תפילה ל-11 בספטמבר | Memorial Prayer for those whose lives were lost on 11 September 2001, by Rabbi Gilah Langner (2011)A prayer on the anniversary of the attacks on 11 September 2001. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 September 11th Day of Service & Remembrance An original liturgical poem inspired by the Modah|Modeh Ani prayer. . . . Categories: Attaining consciousness The formulation for giving thanks for entering wakefulness innovated by Moshe ibn Makhir, as translated by Andrew Shaw. . . . Categories: Attaining consciousness Hashem, as I open my Siddur, let me pray with proper kavanah. Let me pray with sincerity, paying careful attention to every word I utter. Hashem, let me concentrate with my whole being on the meaning of each and every word, sentence and prayer. Keep my mind from wandering to other subjects, and keep me from neglecting to put my heart and soul in to each and every prayer, praise and blessing. May my prayer come before You, O Hashem, at a time of grace, and may it be accepted favorably by You. Amen. . . . Categories: Davvening Trisha Arlin shares “Motzi”, a kavanah (intention) for the blessing, Hamotzi Lehem Min Ha’aretz, over challah. Describing the kavanah she writes that it’s, “based on Rabbi Ellen Lippmann’s tradition on having us create a chain of touch around room that leads to and from the challah, which she then explains as both exemplifying the connection created when people eat together and the chain of work that went to creating the challah itself.” . . . Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat A paraliturgical Amidah (standing mediation) for Rosh haShanah. . . . Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) A prayer written by a son upon the death of his mother. . . . Categories: Mourning What the Rabbis taught about teaching and learning was that all Torah study should begin and end with blessings, just as eating does. Often, in liberal Jewish circles today, these blessings are not done. But without them, it is easier for Torah study to feel like a mere academic discussion, devoid of spirit. And where the blessings are said but only by rote, it is easier for Torah study to feel merely antiquarian and automatic. In Jewish-renewal style, how can we bring new kavvanah — spiritual meaning, intention, focus, intensity — to these blessings — and therefore to the process of Torah study itself? . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Efrem Goldberg on 5 April 2011The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 April 2011. . . . The opening prayer offered before the Boston City Council on April 13th, 2011. . . . Categories: Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn on 24 May 2011The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 May 2011. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 15 September 2011. . . . Categories: 🌐 Day of Democracy (September 15th), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 November 2011. . . . Fixated as we are by incalculable losses in our families, our neighbors, human beings spanning national borders, we are pummeled into shock, barely even able to call out to You. We are, as ever, called to share bread with the hungry, to take those who suffer into our homes, to clothe the naked, to not ignore our sisters and brothers. Many more of our brothers and sisters are hungry, homeless, cold, and vulnerable today than were just a few days ago, and we need Your Help. . . . Categories: Dangerous Storms & Floods 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. . . . A mi sheberakh prayer on behalf of a scribe who has recently completed copying a sefer Torah. . . . Categories: During the Aliyot A prayer-poem for healing by Trisha Arlin. . . . Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving A holistic prayer for health in work. . . . Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah A traveler’s prayer in English, adapted from the traditional formula vt Rabbi Menachem Creditor. . . . Categories: Travel Prayer for the Earth, Air, Water, Fire of our Planet — by Rabbi Arthur Waskow in memory of Barry CommonerMay the words we are with Your help sharing today, Speak deeply –- with Your help — to our nation and the world. Help us all to know that the sharing of our breath with all of life Is the very proof, the very truth, that we are One. . . . Categories: Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), 🌐 Earth Day (22 April) 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. . . . Categories: Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Erev Pesaḥ, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jeffrey Astrachan on 7 February 2012The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 February 2012, for Four Chaplains Day (February 3rd). . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Four Chaplains Day (February 3rd), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies In her ordination address in May 2012, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein said, “One of the really precious things about becoming familiar with Jewish texts is that I begin to hear the echos of ancient words in daily conversation, and feel my life growing in depth and dimensionality. As I thought about what I wanted to share today, I kept hearing in my head Maimonides’ 13 Principles of Faith reverberating through the NPR series called, This I Believe. Weaving these two not so different themes together, here’s where I arrived.” . . . Categories: Addenda Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Aaron Melman on 31 May 2012The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 31 May 2012. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Joel Levenson on 10 July 2012The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 July 2012. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi David Algaze on 11 July 2012The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 July 2012. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Steven Weil on 20 September 2012The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 September 2012. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 November 2012. . . . I wrote this a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing. It arose out of a meditation service which I led at my synagogue. The doors to our sanctuary were open, so we had the sounds of the nearby wetland in our ears, and I invited the meditators to join me in cultivating compassion and sending it toward Boston. The line “My heart is in the east and I am in the west” is adapted from the medieval Spanish poet Judah haLevi. . . . Categories: Terror “A Prayer for Central Oklahoma After the Tornado,” by Rabbi Abby Jacobson was originally published by the Rabbinical Assembly, at their website, in the aftermath of the 2013 Moore tornado. . . . Categories: Dangerous Storms & Floods A playful, expansive, embodied riff on “Hashiveinu Hashem eilecha v’nashuva, ḥadesh yameinu k’kedem.” Suitable for Tisha B’Av, Elul, the Days of Awe, and every day. . . . Categories: Tishah b'Av A prayer-poem inspired by the ritual Havdallah, preparing a separation between Shabbat and weekday time. . . . Categories: Motsei Shabbat A prayer-poem supplication for the afternoon of Shabbat. . . . Categories: Minḥah l'Shabbat The Breath of All Life, a paraliturgical Nishmat Kol Ḥai for Shabbat morning by Rabbi Rachel BarenblatA prayer-poem inspired from the liturgical prayer, Nishmat. . . . Categories: Psuqei d'Zimrah/Zemirot l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov | ||
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