![the Open Siddur Project [logo]](https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2016.svg){kind=logo}
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
|
|
|
|
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
| ||
⤷ You are here:
English vernacular prayer —⟶ tag: English vernacular prayer Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A prayer for America on the day upon which right-wing militias carried out an insurrection upon the representative democratic institution of the United States. . . . “Holocaust Survivor Prayer” was written in English by Rabbi Avi Baumol in 2021 upon the establishment of Holocaust Survivor Day by the JCC of Krakow, Poland. The prayer was first published at the website of Holocaust Survivor Day. . . . Categories: Tags: English vernacular prayer, free translation, Hebrew translation, מי שברך mi sheberakh, needing translation (into Polish), the Holocaust Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Those Denied Abortion Care” was composed collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Facebook in response to the regressive health care policies of the State of Texas in the United States in 2021. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Abortion in the United States, American Jewry of the United States, English vernacular prayer, United States v. Texas (2021) Contributor(s): Invocation for a Memorial Day ceremony at the Washington DC Vietnam War Veterans Memorial. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 September 2021. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 September 11th Day of Service & Remembrance, 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies Tags: 117th Congress, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, September 11 attacks, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): A paraliturgical adaptation of Psalms 92. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical Psalms 92, Psalms 92, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof Contributor(s): This is a brief prayer for America’s veterans and service members on Veterans Day . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer, United States Contributor(s): “Prayer for Ukraine” by Menachem Creditor was first shared by Rabbi Menachem Creditor through a post in the Open Siddur Project Discussion Group on Facebook. . . . This prayer for those who must eat on Jewish fast days, was shared by Sarah Osborne for A Mitzvah to Eat on Facebook. The Hebrew translation of the prayer was offered by Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat. . . . Categories: Fasting, Khaf Sivan, Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Shiv'ah b'Adar, Ta'anit Esther Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, fasting, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), Needing Vocalization, פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): “A Prayer for the Flood Stricken” was offered by Rabbi David Dine Wirtschafter and shared via his Facebook page on 28 July 2022. He adds, “Please contribute to the Team Eastern Kentucky Relief Fund.” . . . “A Prayer upon the Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second” was written by Rabbi Alexandra Wright, Senior Rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue (St John’s Wood), and President of Liberal Judaism in the UK. The prayer was shared through the Open Siddur Project via our Facebook discussion group on 8 September 2022, by Rabbi Lea Mühlstein, Senior Rabbi of the Ark Synagogue (NPLS). . . . “Prayer for the People of Ukraine” was written by the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Ephraim Mirvis, and shared via the Twitter account of the Office of the Chief Rabbi. . . . Categories: Tags: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): A prayer for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), written in response to their laudable decision to halt the deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda. . . . “A Prayer for Peace in the Ukraine” was first shared by Rabbi Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D. via her Facebook page, motsei Shabbat on 27 February 2022. To support the Jewish community in the Ukraine, go to the World Union of Progressive Judaism. . . . “A Prayer for Eating on Yom Kippur” was written by A Mitzvah to Eat (Sarah Osborne) and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022). . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, fasting, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): An Intention for Eating on Yom Kippur was written by Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez and appears in הַרְחֶב פִּֽיךָ וַאֲמַלְאֵֽהוּ Open Your Mouth Wide, and I (God) Will Fill It: Prayers and Rituals for those who need to eat on Yom Kippur (2022), p. 4. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, fasting, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), כוונות kavvanot, פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh Contributor(s): An alternate Vidui for Yom Kipur, including an alphabetical list of the things we’ve done wrong in the past year, and also an alphabetical list of the things we can do right in the new year. Includes the words to “Ani v’Ata”, the song of optimism and commitment to improve the world. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, English vernacular prayer, supplemental vidui, וידוי vidui Contributor(s): “Prayer for Ukraine” by Rabbi Dr. Reuven Kimelman was first published by Brandeis University on their website. . . . | ||
Sign up for a summary of new resources shared by contributors each week
  |
“Avinu Malkeinu,” dvar tefillah by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)
The words of Avinu Malkeinu are a little different from the standard translation. It doesn’t say in Hebrew, “we have no good deeds” (ein lanu ma’asim tovim), but rather, “there are no deeds in us” (ein banu ma’asim). The p’shat (literal meaning) implies that whatever we have done in the past does not have to live inside of us — we can release our deeds and be released from them, fully, to start over, like a newborn, to become whoever we need to become. . . .