tagged: דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Some thoughts on God’s proper, ineffable name, a d’var tefillah by Shoshana Michael Zucker

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Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation)

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Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer

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Ineffable Name, Tetragrammaton, Rashbam, Divine Names, דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand, Shem Havaya

Some thoughts on the ineffable divine name. . . .

תחנון לימים קשים | Taḥanun [Plea for Mercy] on Hard Days by Noa Mazor (trans. by Jonah Rank)

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Noa Mazor and Jonah Rank

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Btselem Elohim, Da Lifnei Mi Ata Omeid, ישראל Yisrael, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine

Lord, our God, bring us days of good, of mercy, of life and of peace. Give our leaders the capability to see the natural sanctity embedded in every person. Give us the ability to trust human beings fighting for their way, for their lives–for our lives. Lord, lay us down along Your path–a path for loving humanity as humanity, a path for welcoming peace between neighbors: between humanity and pain. . . .

Kavvanah on Standing Before God-Who-Sees-Me, by Virginia Spatz (1999)

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Virginia Spatz

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Weekday Amidah

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דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand, 21st century C.E., Openers, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot

A prayer-teaching for grounding one’s intention at the onset of the Amidah. . . .

אֶחָד | One, a song by Harry Nilsson (1967)

Contributor(s):

Aharon Varady (translation/Hebrew) and Harry Nilsson

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Sefirat ha-Omer

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loneliness, love your fellow as yourself, 20th century C.E., non-dual theology, זמירות zemirot, love-sickness, דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand, counting songs, פיוטים piyyutim, 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, שכינה Shekhinah

A Hebrew translation of the lyrics to Harry Nilsson’s “One” (1967) as sung by Aimee Mann (1995) . . .

“The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1953)

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer

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Private Prayer, American Judaism, 20th century C.E., North America, דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand, communal prayer, 58th century A.M., Essays on Prayer as Praxis

“The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel was a speech given at the Fifty-Third Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America which took place at the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey from Tammuz 9 to Tammuz 14, 5713 (June 22 To June 27, 1953). The speech was subsequently published in the Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly of America v.17. . . .

“Know Before Whom Thou Standest,” a poem on the inscription above the Aron haḲodesh by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, Charleston, ca. 1840)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Penina Moïse

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Entering Sacred Spaces

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exhortation, 19th century C.E., דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand, 57th century A.M., Synagogues, etiquette

“On the Following Inscription Fronting the New Synagogue: ‘Know Before Whom Thou Standest'” was published in Secular and Religious Works of Penina Moïse, With Brief Sketch of Her Life (Council of Jewish Women, Charleston Section, 1911), pp. 275-276. . . .