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לִשְׁמֹר הַשָּׁנָה שֶׁל שְׁמִטָּה | Candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, Shabbat, and Yom Tov during the Shmitah Year, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

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Four blessings to recite upon commencing the Shmitah year in candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, and to add to subsequent shabbat and festival candlelightings. . . .

A Prayer before Candle-lighting, by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

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Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . .

יְיָ בּוֹקֶר אֶעֱרוֹךְ לְךָ | Hashem Boqer E’erokh Lakh (Hear my voice at dawn), a reshut by an unknown paytan (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

This translation of “Adonai boker e’erokh lekha” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by an unknown paytan was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus | Prayer upon entering the house of God, by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)

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Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Meïr haLevi Letteris

Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus | Prayer on Entering the House of God, by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Miriam Wertheimer (translation), Emily Kesselman (art & transcription) and Meïr haLevi Letteris

“Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus” was written by Meir Letteris and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer…. In the 1846 printings, it appears on p. 1. The English translation here was made by Miriam Werheimer and for unknown reasons misattributed to Wolfgang Wessely in Devotional exercises for the use of Jewish women, on public and domestic occasions (1852). –Aharon Varady . . .