
Contributor(s):
Elli Fischer
Shared on כ״ו באלול ה׳תשע״ד (2014-09-20) — under the following terms:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:
Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags:
English Translation,
self-sacrifice,
life giving,
blood,
תחינות teḥinot,
21st century C.E.,
58th century A.M.,
כוונות kavvanot,
giving blood,
matanat dam,
ישראל Yisrael
A prayer to be recited upon donating blood. In Israel, there are major blood drives around the times of Rosh Hashana and Pesaḥ, so the prayer borrows themes from both of those holidays. It emphasizes both the tzedaka aspect of blood donation and the ancient symbolic resonances of blood sacrifice. . . .