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ברכות בשביל הקהל | Some blessings for those you davvened with, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Ma'ariv/Arvit, Shaḥarit, Musaf, Minḥah, Separation | Tags:

blessings, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Post-prayer supplements, transition, Closing Prayers, Ḥatimot, Peer blessings, farewell blessings, love your fellow as yourself, havdalot

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included this list of peer blessings for after davvening in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

Blessing over Separation, by Shelby Handler

Contributor(s): Shelby Handler
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Motsei Shabbat, Separation | Tags:

blessings, brakhot, North America, 21st century C.E., Adamah Farm, 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, havdalot

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. . . .

הבדלה | Distinctions (Havdalah) for the end of Shabbat, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
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Motsei Shabbat | Tags:

teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical havdalah, havdalot

Wax drips from the braided candle.
Cinnamon tingles the nose
to keep us from fainting
as the extra soul departs.
Stop now. Notice this hinge
between Shabbat
and what’s next. . . .

HAVDALLAH: Prayers for the Holy Separations, by Trisha Arlin

Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin
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Motsei Shabbat | Tags:

Kolot Chayeinu, first person, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical havdalah, havdalot

Three short havdallah meditations that culminate in a havdallah prayer/blessing. . . .

מדרשים על אדם הראשון וקלנדס על תקופת החורף | Midrashim on the Origin of the Festival of Kalends on the Winter Solstice by the Primordial Adam

Contributor(s): Devora Steinmetz
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Aggadic Midrash, Ḥanukkah Readings | Tags:

sourcesheet, sunset, night, Winter Solstice, Kalends, Kalendes, Psalms 139, havdalot

Our Rabbis taught: When Adam HaRishon (primitive 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. . . .

Contents

ברכות בשביל הקהל | Some blessings for those you davvened with, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Blessing over Separation, by Shelby Handler

הבדלה | Distinctions (Havdalah) for the end of Shabbat, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

HAVDALLAH: Prayers for the Holy Separations, by Trisha Arlin

מדרשים על אדם הראשון וקלנדס על תקופת החורף | Midrashim on the Origin of the Festival of Kalends on the Winter Solstice by the Primordial Adam