tagged: Light • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

How Much Light? A Ḥanukkah Meditation by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

Categories:

Ḥanukkah

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Light, kindling

“How Much Light? A Ḥanukkah Meditation” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was first shared on the second night of Ḥanukkah 5782 (2021) via the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook. . . .

Ḥanukkah Visualization on Infinite Light, by Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein

Contributor(s):

Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality

Categories:

Ḥanukkah, Visual Meditation

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Light, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אור הגנוז or haganuz

A Ḥanukkah meditation on the hidden, infinite light of creation, the Or HaGanuz, with some of the midrashic and Ḥasidic sources it is based upon. . . .

A Prayer before Candle-lighting, by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Contributor(s):

Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Categories:

Erev Pesaḥ, Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Sukkot, 7th Day of Pesaḥ, Yom Kippur

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entering, welcoming, candle lighting, Light, 21st century C.E., potential, 58th century A.M., fire, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer

Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . .

A Kavvanah for Waking Up, by Andrew Shaw

Contributor(s):

Andrew Shaw

Categories:

Birkhot haShaḥar

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21st century C.E., Sunrise, 58th century A.M., Wakefulness, English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), Hypnogogic State, Dawn, Light, Darkness, Threshold, Compassion

An original liturgical poem inspired by the Modah|Modeh Ani prayer. . . .

הַאגְּדָה עוֹוָאִידְנָא | هاگدة عوّدنا | Agda ŋowaidna (Such is our custom), a Moroccan Jewish song for the conclusion of Ḥanukkah

Contributor(s):

Josh Calvo

Categories:

Ḥanukkah

Tags:

Light, זמירות zemirot, Judeo-Arabic, Morocco, Meknes

This is a transcription and translation of the song הַאגְּדָה עוֹוָאִידְנָא (Agda Ŋowaidna) as presented on Twitter, 6 December 2021 by Josh Calvo (@joshuac220), writing “In Meknes, Morocco, on the day after Ḥanukkah (which is today, alas) the Jewish community would come together to a light a bonfire from the leftover wax and oil of the holiday, singing this song (in Arabic) while watching the blaze.” . . .

עִם שָׁמֶשׁ | At Sunrise, a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1903)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Leonard Victor Snowman and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

Categories:

Morning Baqashot, the New Sun

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Prayers as poems, 20th century C.E., Light, modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., the sun

The poem, “Im Shamesh” (At Sunrise) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik in June 1903. . . .

צַפְרִירִים | Tsafririm (Morning Spirits), a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1900)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ben Aronin and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

Categories:

Morning Baqashot

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alternate rhyming scheme, animistic spirits, numinous beings, romanticism, Jewish faeries, 19th century C.E., entering magical territory, Light, first person, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems

The poem “Tsafririm” (1900) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik with an English translation by Ben Aronin. . . .

Beim Lichtzünden | When kindling the lights (for Shabbat and Yontef), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

Categories:

Erev Shabbat

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German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, shabbat preparation, 19th century C.E., Light, kindling, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers

“Wenn die Hausfrau an den Vorabenden des Sabaths und der Feiertage die Lichte anzündet” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №13, on pp. 17-18. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №13 on pp. 20-21. . . .

Gebete bei dem Anzünden der Lichter Freitag nachts | Prayer at the kindling of the Friday night lights, a teḥinah by Wolf Mayer (1828)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Daniel Bar Sadeh-Weise (transcription) and Wolf Mayer

Categories:

Erev Shabbat

Tags:

German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, lamp lighting, 19th century C.E., Light, kindling, candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers

“Gebete bei dem Anzünden der Lichter Freitag nachts” was translated/adapted by Mayer Wolf and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תְּחִנּוֹת בְּנוֹת יְשֻׁרוּן Gebethbuch für gebildete israelitisch Frauenzimmer (1828) on pp. 107-109. . . .