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English vernacular prayer —⟶ tag: English vernacular prayer Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A kavvanah for clarifying and elevating the activity of tax preparation. This version of Eyshet Ḥayil replaces valor with value, and while it speaks of man in terms of family, community, and the natural world, it is not heteronormative. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, role models Contributor(s): A pre-Shavuot prayer in the shadow of the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis. “A New Birkat haMazon/Blessing After the Meal” was first published by Rabbi Brant Rosen via his liturgy blog, Yedid Nefesh (8 March 2021). He writes, “In composing this new Birkat Hamazon/Blessing After the Meal, I maintained the essential structure of the traditional prayer, which consists of four basic spiritual themes or categories. As with the other new liturgies that I’ve written, I seek here to compose Jewish prayers that express a Diasporist ethic; that is to say, liturgy that views the entire world as our “homeland” and resists the influence of modern political Zionism, which has become so thoroughly enmeshed in contemporary Jewish liturgy.” Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ברכת המזון birkat hamazon, diaspora, doikayt, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): A prayer-poem by Rabbi Arthur Waskow in 2021 reflecting on our difficulty breathing, as a society, as humanity, and as a interconnected, interbreathing biosphere. Categories: Tags: 2020 coronavirus pandemic, 2020 United States racial reckoning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai, Prayers as poems, September 2020 Western United States wildfires, State v. Chauvin Contributor(s): A prayer of gratitude upon receiving a COVID vaccination. A prayer for the government on a day of violent insurrection in the heart of American democracy. A prayer upon receiving a vaccination for COVID. A prayer on being present in the moment of the inauguration of the 59th president of the United States. This prayer for a parent (or primary caregiver) on the vaccination of their children by Cantor Hinda Labovitz was first shared via their Facebook page on 5 November 2021, 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: Khaf Sivan, Fasting, Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Shiv'ah b'Adar, Taanit 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): | ||
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“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.