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English vernacular prayer —⟶ tag: English vernacular prayer Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “That Religion Be Not a Cloak for Hypocrisy,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 435-5 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945). . . . Categories: Tishah b'Av, 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation, Roleplaying Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., communal shame, corruption, difference disagreement and deviance, English vernacular prayer, false piety, חלול ה׳ Ḥillul Hashem, improper use of the crown, inclusion and exclusion, labor exploitation, Psalms 5, religious hypocrisy, tolerance and intolerance Contributor(s): A service and prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, containing a variation of El Malé Raḥamim, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. . . . A prayer for Independence Day in the United States by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, prefaced by an abridged reading of the Declaration of Independence. . . . “Courage to Withstand the Ridicule of the Worldly,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 433-4 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945). . . . Categories: Bedtime Shema, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, 🌐 International Workers' Day (May 1st), Well-being, health, and caregiving Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Amits Koaḥ, apotropaic prayers of protection, ayin hara, English vernacular prayer, lashon hara, loneliness, lonely man of faith, Psalms 4, social anxiety, יצר הרע yetser hara Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 26 February 1945. . . . Categories: Tags: 79th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 June 1945. . . . Categories: Tags: 79th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): This prayer for a New World Order by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, representing many of the hopes of a United Nations after World War Ⅱ, was found by Mel Scult among Mordecai Kaplan’s papers and shared by Dr. Scult in a Facebook post. The prayer is undated, although we tentatively date it between 1945 and 1951. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 April 1946. . . . Categories: Tags: 79th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot, the Holocaust, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Dudley Weinberg, National Chaplain of AMVETS after World War II, was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), pp. 79-80. The prayer was chosen for publication by the then National Commander of AMVETS, Harold Russell. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 January 1947. . . . Categories: Tags: 80th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): This “Closing Prayer” for New Year’s Day was adapted by Mordecai Kaplan and Eugene Kohn from a prayer first published by unnamed “Members of the Faculty” of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (The Colgate-Rochester Divinity School Bulletin, “Prayers for the New Year,” vol. 19 no. 2 (1947), pp. 65-71). Kaplan & Kohn’s adapted prayer essentially contains excerpts from the prayer of the Faculty (excluding any with explicit Christian content). The adapted prayer was published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 25-26. –Aharon Varady . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for United Nations Day, the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on Lincoln’s Birthday, 12 February 1948. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies Tags: 80th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, Containment, English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers for leaders, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1948. . . . Categories: Tags: 80th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): Did you know that the great songwriter and activist Woody Guthrie wrote Ḥanukkah music? It’s true. Though Guthrie himself was not Jewish, Marjorie Greenblatt, his second wife and their children were, and he would write Ḥanukkah songs for the kids in his neighborhood in the 1940s. Two of these songs were recorded by Moses Asch, head of Folkways Records, in 1949 — a kid’s song called “Hanuka Dance,” and a twenty-verse ballad retelling the story of Ḥanukkah called “The Many and the Few.” Below is an original Hebrew translation of “The Many and the Few,” preserving the meter of the original. With a simple melody and a lot of historical research, it could certainly be sung at a Ḥanukkah event. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Hebrew translation, ישראל Yisrael, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): This prayer, initially delivered by Rabbi Joseph Baron as an invocation at the opening of the 12th U.A.W.-C.I.O. Labor Convention in Milwaukee, July 1949, was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), pp. 81-82. The prayer was selected for the anthology by Walter P. Reuther (1907-1970), a Lutheran, a leader of organized labor, and a civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history. . . . This prayer by Rabbi Samuel Thurman, of the United Hebrew Temple (St. Louis, Missouri), was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1949. . . . The poem, “Psalm of Gratitude” by the Jewish poet and educator, Ben Aronin. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Chicago, depression, Distress, English vernacular prayer, first person, Gratitude, מודים Modim, Prayers as poems, thanksgiving Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 March 1950. . . . Categories: Tags: 81st Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-communist, Cold War (1947–1953), English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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