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a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources — for those crafting their own prayerbooks and sharing the content of their practice
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English vernacular prayer —⟶ tag: English vernacular prayer Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A prayer on the first anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh. . . . A prayer in English to end gun violence before Rosh haShanah, . . . A prayer for the correction of the United States immigration policy in support of immigrants and open borders. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 February 2019. . . . The words of Greta Thunberg adapted for a prayer for intervention in the anthropogenic climate crisis, for a Honshana ritual for Sukkot. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, climate crisis, English vernacular prayer, global climate change, הושענות hoshanot, mesostic Contributor(s): A meditation on living through the lens of dying. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish Contributor(s): One small request to accompany the seliḥot service. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical seliḥot, סליחות səliḥot, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): A prayer in solidarity with the Greater Iowa City Church of the Nazarene, whose building was the target of hateful vandalism. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-fascist, English vernacular prayer, Iowa, Iowa City, solidarity, standing together Contributor(s): A litany of hoshanot for use in a ritual prayer circle march on the festival of Sukkot. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, Needing Translation (into Hebrew) Contributor(s): A litany of hoshanot for use in a ritual prayer circle march on the festival of Sukkot. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, mesostic, Northampton, United States Contributor(s): Adir Hu, a classic Pesaḥ song if ever there was one, is a part of Seder tables all over the planet. Its alphabetical list of God’s attributes, combined with its repeated pleas for a return to Jerusalem, make it a classic, to the point where the traditional German farewell greeting for Passover was not “chag sameach” or “gut yontef” but “bau gut” – build well. This interpretation, while not a direct translation by any means, has the same rhythmic pattern and alphabetical structure, giving a sense of the greatness of God. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אדיר הוא Adir Hu, Alphabetic Acrostic, English piyyutim, English vernacular prayer, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): A kavvanah for affirming one’s Jewish identity in a mikvah before immersion. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., affirmations, confirmation, conversion, English vernacular prayer, Jewish identity Contributor(s): An interpretive version of Al HaNisim for Ḥanukkah that is playful, powerful, and embodied. May it fuel our activism, including the self-care and community-building that is part of activism. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., על הנסים al hanissim, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical al haNissim, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): Today I turned my heart toward the new year and wrote a prayer-poem for Tashlikh, the Rosh haShanah ritual of casting bread or stones into the water to cast off one’s past wrongdoings. . . . A poem-blessing for the Hebrew month of Kislev, suitable for Birkat HaḤodesh, Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev, and the whole month. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the month of Marḥeshvan (a/k/a Ḥeshvan) on Rosh Ḥodesh Marḥeshvan in the autumn season. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for Israeli-Palestinian solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identities greatly eclipse our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . A prayer for human solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identity as Bnei Yisrael greatly eclipses our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . Categories: Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, human solidarity, interconnectedness, interdependence, Israelis and Palestinians, Jewish particularism, particularism and universalism, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): An invocation by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, offered at the opening dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, June 2019. . . . Categories: Tags: 116th Congress, 21st century C.E., 45th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., democracy, English vernacular prayer, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, United States, United States Immigration Policy Contributor(s): A paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret. . . . | ||
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