![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? This prayer for World AIDS Day was first offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for relief from the COVID-19 epidemic was first offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024, likely in 2020. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., COVID-19 coronavirus, English vernacular prayer, German translation Contributor(s): This prayer for Ukraine was first offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024. Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami shared this prayer for United Nations Day via their Facebook page on 25 October 2024. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Prayer for Yom haShoah (תְּפִלָּה לַיּוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה) | Gebet für Jom haSchoa, by Rabbi Lior Bar-AmiThis prayer for Yom haShoah in Germany (27 January) containing the El Malé Raḥamim for those who perished in the Holocaust was offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024. This prayer for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day was first offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer after the horrors of 7 October 2023 perpetrated by Hamas and its allies was first offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024. Categories: Tags: 2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, German translation, יזכור yizkor Contributor(s): This prayer for Kristallnacht by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami was first published to their Facebook page, 9 November 2004. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, November 2024 Amsterdam attacks, the Holocaust Contributor(s): Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami shared this prayer for a change of name and gender marker via their Facebook page on 1 November 2024. Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami shared this prayer for the Intersex Day of Remembrance via their Facebook page on 8 November 2024. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami’s prayer for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was first published on their Facebook page, 25 November 2024. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Librarians” by Trisha Arlin was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 7 December 2024. “Find the Lily” is a prayer-poem written in first person by Trisha Arlin. It was first shared via their website, Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention, on 6 November 2024. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): Eight qualities are mentioned in the prayer: Peace, Blessing, Hope, Return, Promise, Strength, Life, Courage. You can pick one to focus on each night. (You can do them in the order they appear in if you like.) Where do you find that quality in you? Where do you find it in the world? What will a life, or a world, transformed by that quality look like? Feel like? Categories: Tags: 2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, was offered as a benediction at the Inauguration ceremony for Donald Trump on 20 January 2025. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 47th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, inaugurations, שתדלנות shtadlanut, United States Contributor(s): “Bricks Without Straw” is a prayer-poem written by Trisha Arlin, first shared in the Passover anthology, From the Depths: Pesach 5785/2025 (Bayit: Building Jewish) on 17 March 2025. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 47th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, פרשת וארא parashat Va'era Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Pinchus Ciment was offered while serving as guest chaplain before the 119th Congress, 1st Session of the US House of Representatives on 27 March 2025. The prayer was published in the Congressional Record, v.171, n.56 (Wednesday, March 27, 2025), House, page H1305. Categories: Tags: 119th Congress, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, English vernacular prayer, חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, U.S. House of Representatives Contributor(s): A prayer-poem inspired by the story of Noah and the ark to embrace all people regardless of gender identity or whom they love. This mi sheberakh by Rabbi David Seidenberg, for the safety and safe return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia detained by the United States government and deported “in error” to captivity under dangerous and vulnerable conditions in El Salvador, was first shared on his Facebook page on 10 April 2025. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, מי שברך mi sheberakh Contributor(s): A prayer for America, its government and leaders, and its citizens, which I first posted in 2020, and reconsidered now in 2025, to speak to the challenges our country and public life today. | ||
Sign up for a summary of new resources shared by contributors each week
  |
