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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Addenda
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love your fellow as yourself, הבדלות havdalot, blessings, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Post-prayer supplements, transition, Closing Prayers, Closers, Peer blessings, farewell blessings
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included this list of peer blessings for after davvening in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Motsei Shabbat
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זמירות zemirot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Psychopomp, הבדלות havdalot, Seraḥ bat Asher
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Some communities have a practice of singing a song about Miriam alongside the well-known Havdalah song about Elijah the Prophet. But Miriam isn’t really a parallel to Elijah — she’s a parallel to Moshe and Aaron. When we’re talking about distaff counterparts to Elijah the clearest example is Seraḥ bat Asher. Seraḥ, the daughter of Asher, is mentioned only a handful of times in the Tanakh, but is given great significance in the midrash. Like Elijah, she is said to have never died but entered Paradise alive, and comes around to the rabbis to give advice or teachings. This song, which includes several references to midrashim about Seraḥ, is meant to be sung to any traditional tune of “Eliyahu haNavi.” It is dedicated to Ḥazzan Joanna Selznick Dulkin (shlit”a), who introduced me to the legends of Seraḥ bat Asher. . . . |
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Shelby Handler
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Motsei Shabbat, Separation
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הבדלות havdalot, blessings, ברכות brakhot, North America, 21st century C.E., Adamah Farm, 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer
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The Blessing over Separations was first read by Shelby Handler on Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev at the 2017 ADVA Reunion, a reunion of the community of Adamah Farm fellows and Teva Learning Center educators at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. . . . |
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Devora Steinmetz and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Midrash Aggadah, Winter Solstice, Ḥanukkah Readings
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הבדלות havdalot, sourcesheet, sunset, night, Winter Solstice, קלנדס Ḳalends, Psalms 139
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Our Rabbis taught: When Adam HaRishon (primordial Adam) saw the day getting gradually shorter, he said, ‘Woe is me, perhaps because I have sinned, the world around me is being darkened and returning to its state of chaos and confusion; this then is the kind of death to which I have been sentenced from Heaven!’ So he began keeping an eight days’ fast. But as he observed the winter solstice and noted the day getting increasingly longer, he said, ‘This is the world’s course’, and he set forth to keep an eight days’ festivity. In the following year he appointed both as festivals. Now, he fixed them for the sake of Heaven, but the [unenlightened] appointed them for the sake of star worship. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon Varady (translation/Hebrew) and Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev
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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Taḥanun, Yom Kippur, Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat
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56th century A.M., creator within creation, 18th Century C.E., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, Hebrew translation, Yiddish songs, ḥassidut, הבדלות havdalot, non-dual theology, זמירות zemirot, תשובה teshuvah, panentheism
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A profound song invoking divine presence. . . . |
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