Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included these Weekday Affirmations based on the Amidah, in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .
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Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories:  Weekday Amidah | Tags:  20th century C.E., North America, Jewish Renewal, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, neo-lurianic
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Unknown Author(s) and Neḥunyah ben HaQanah
Categories: Slavery & Captivity | Tags: interpretive translation, acrostic, English Translation, Jewish Renewal, piyyutim, Psalms 67, Philadelphia, Antiquity, Ana b'Koaḥ, singing translation, 42 letter divine name acrostic, Divine name acrostic, devotional interpretation 
To Rebbi Neḥunyah ben haQanah is generally attributed the composition of אנא בכח, the initials of which form a forty-two-lettered divine name. He is considered to have been a chief transmitter of an esoteric Jewish lineage in antiquity, the Yordei Merqavah (Descenders to the Chariot). The author of the Bahir and of the Sefer ha-Peli’ah has also beenn attributed to him. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Torah Study | Tags: talmud torah, interpretive translation, English Translation, North America, Late Antiquity, Jewish Renewal, Amoraic prayers, Prayers before Torah Study, Tannaitic prayers, Antiquity, ecoḥasid, devotional interpretation 
This English translation of the blessing for Torah study by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Versification according to the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l by Aharon Varady. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality
Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Shaḥarit | Tags: 20th century C.E., North America, Jewish Renewal, teḥinot, supplications, 58th century A.M., kavvanot, Elat Chayyim, Olam Haba, Ani Maamin 
This list of thirteen supplications for emunah (faith) in particular beliefs was included by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, David ben Yishai and the Masoretic Text
Categories: Ḥanukkah, Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Tehilim (Psalms) | Tags: interpretive translation, Psalms, English Translation, North America, Jewish Renewal, Petiḥot, Uva Letsiyon, Motsei Shabbat, Liturgical customs of Kabbalists, Psalms 30, devotional interpretation 
Loading Source (Hebrew) Translation (English) מִזְמ֡וֹר שִׁיר־חֲנֻכַּ֖ת הַבַּ֣יִת לְדָוִֽד׃ A Psalm for A Housewarming, Composed by David ב אֲרוֹמִמְךָ֣ יְ֭הוָה כִּ֣י דִלִּיתָ֑נִי וְלֹא־שִׂמַּ֖חְתָּ אֹיְבַ֣י לִֽי׃ ג יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָ֑י שִׁוַּ֥עְתִּי אֵ֝לֶ֗יךָ וַתִּרְפָּאֵֽנִי׃ ד יְֽהוָ֗ה הֶֽעֱלִ֣יתָ מִן־שְׁא֣וֹל נַפְשִׁ֑י חִ֝יִּיתַ֗נִי מיורדי־[מִיָּֽרְדִי־] בֽוֹר׃ 2 I acclaim You, my God. You set me free So that my foes Could not gloat at my troubles. . . . Contributor(s): Oren Steinitz and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Mourning, Morning Torah Reading, Kaddish | Tags: 20th century C.E., Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, English Translation, Jewish Renewal, Solo, No Minyan, 58th century A.M., Mourner's Kaddish, ecoḥasid, Removal of the Torah from the Ark, הוצאת ספר תורה, Needing Attribution 
This Kaddish was first published online at Jewish Renewal Chassidus by Gabbai Seth Fishman. Rabbi Oren Steinitz translated the kaddish on the 3rd yahrzeit after Reb Zalman’s passing. . . . Contributor(s): Gershon
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Days of Awe (Yamim Nora'im), Maḥzorim | Tags: Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, Needing Decompilation, Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet 
This is a complete* Jewish Renewal/Reconstructionist Machzor for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, primarily influenced by the davennin of Reb Zalman and the Aquarian Minyan. All text in English is gender-neutral. All Hebrew prayers are accompanied by transliteration. Material for Shabbat is at the back of the book. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayers are combined (so some pages need to be skipped depending), but there should be a minimum of flipping back and forth. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Torah Study | Tags: 20th century C.E., talmud torah, Jewish Renewal, 58th century A.M., Prayers before Torah Study, ecoḥasid 
My Lord Creator of all, Master of all worlds, Supreme, compassionate and forgiving, Thank You for Your Torah, Thank You for allowing me to learn from it And to move toward serving You. Thank You for revealing some of the Mysteries of Your Way. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Birkat haMazon | Tags: Jewish Renewal, ecoḥasid 
The style by which Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l translated Jewish liturgy in English was neither literal nor idiomatic, but highly interpretive and interspersed with his own ḥiddushim (innovations). Showing Reb Zalman’s translation side-by-side with the Jewish liturgy helps to illuminate his understanding of the liturgy — it’s deeper meaning as well as how it might be communicated to a contemporary audience. In the version I have prepared below, I have set the interpretive translation of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l side-by-side with the liturgical Hebrew that may have inspired it. In several places, Reb Zalman’s formulation departs from the traditional Ashkenazi nusaḥ. Where there is no Hebrew, we can more easily observe where Reb Zalman has expanded upon the blessing. Still, my work was not exhaustive and I appreciate any corrections to the nusaḥ (liturgical custom) of the Hebrew that may have inspired Reb Zalman’s interpretation in English. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Shaḥarit | Tags: 20th century C.E., Jewish Renewal, piyyutim, Baqashot, Petiḥot, Yedid Nefesh, ecoḥasid 
You who love my soul Compassion’s gentle source, Take my disposition and shape it to Your will. Like a darting deer I will flee to You. Before Your glorious Presence Humbly I do bow. Let Your sweet love Delight me with its thrill Because no other dainty Will my hunger still. . . . Contributor(s): Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman
Categories: Morning siddurim | Tags: Jewish Renewal, ecoḥasid 
For those of us who speak a religious language, we can understand our journey of building shame resilience as one of the many ways we can uplift, exalt, praise, and honor not just our own lives but the Life of life itself. Whenever we feel unworthy of love and belonging, we can remember that the very self which we are struggling to believe is lovable is none other a manifestation of God’s own Self. Our belief that we are worthy to live and belong is one way we can practice our trust in God. And if the God language doesn’t do it for us, we can get in touch with our own wonder at being alive, call it whatever name or conjure whatever image works for us, and remember that our journey to live a wholehearted life honors that wonder. Ultimately we can affirm that any step toward a wholehearted life lifts up holiness in this world. . . . Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories: Leil Pesaḥ | Tags: symbolic foods, ḥaroset, Jewish Renewal, segulot, haggadah supplements 
There it sits on the Seder plate: ḥaroset, a delicious paste of chopped nuts, chopped fruits, spices, and wine. So the question would seem obvious: “Why is there ḥaroset on the Seder plate?” That’s the most secret Question at the Seder – so secret nobody even asks it. And it’s got the most secret answer: none. . . . Contributor(s): Andrew Shaw
Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Morning siddurim | Tags: blessings, Wakefulness, Gratitude, Jewish Renewal, Needing Decompilation 
In these still, quiet moments I am not asleep, and not yet awake. In the threshold of day and night, with the mixture of darkness and light, my body is once again coming to life. I am reborn, each day, from the womb of your compassion. May all of my actions be worthy of the faith you’ve placed in me. With words of thanks I’ll greet the dawn. . . . Contributor(s): Effron Esseiva
Categories: Weekday Amidah | Tags: North America, Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Vancouver 
This is Effron Esseiva’s morning Amidah (standing prayer) for weekdays. Effron writes, “It’s called Shmonei Esrei (18) because it used to have eighteen brakhot (blessings). However, it has an additional brakha to bring it to nineteen. This is my interpretation of the Teissa Esrei (19) with abridged kavvanot (intentions).” . . . Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories: Yom Kippur, Isaiah, Yom Kippur | Tags: creative translation, 20th century C.E., interpretive translation, liberation, Jewish Renewal, 58th century A.M., Midrashic interpretation, Isaiah 57, Isaiah 58, Isaiah 
As we move not just toward a new “year” (shanah) but toward a moment when repetition (sheni) becomes transformation (shinui), I hope we will remember the roots of Jewish renewal in the upheavals of the 1960s as well as the upheavals of the 1760s, the roots of Judaism in the great “political” speeches of the Prophets, and the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who said that in a great civil rights march his legs were praying, and who argued again and again that “spirituality” and “politics” cannot be severed. As Heschel also said, “Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive.” . . . Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
Categories: Dry Season, Pesaḥ, Nisan, Essays, Documents, Art, and Craft | Tags: water cycle, eco-conscious, North America, Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, North American Jewry 
Geshem and tal: rain and dew. We pray for each in its season, geshem all winter and tal as summer approaches…not everywhere, necessarily, but in the land of Israel where our prayers have their roots. In a desert climate, water is clearly a gift from God. It’s easy for us to forget that, here with all of this rain and snow. But our liturgy reminds us. Through the winter months, during our daily amidah we’ve prayed “mashiv ha-ruach u-morid ha-gashem” — You cause the winds to blow and the rains to fall! We only pray for rain during the rainy season, because it is frustrating both to us and to God when we pray for impossibilities. . . . Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Categories: Weekday siddurim | Tags: interpretive translation, four worlds, English Translation, Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, neo-lurianic, devotional interpretation, Needing Decompilation 
If you are not used to reading Hebrew with comprehension and with the ability to dilate the Hebrew from the literal meaning, or if you cannot read Hebrew and need a resource for daily davvenen, I offer you this set of texts, which I, too, use frequently for myself. I translated the Psalms and the liturgy in the way in which I experience them in my feeling consciousness. This does not offer the ‘pshat’, the literal meaning of the words, but the devotional interpretation that can make it a prayer of the heart. . . . |
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