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

Contributor(s):	Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Shared on:	י״א בטבת ה׳תשע״ב (2012-01-05)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Erev Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
Tags:	Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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. . . .

Ḥanukkah Visualization on Infinite Light, by Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein

Contributor(s):	Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality
Shared on:	כ״ז בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-25)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Ḥanukkah, Visual Meditation
Tags:	Light, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אור הגנוז or haganuz
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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 Kavvanah for Waking Up, by Andrew Shaw

Contributor(s):	Andrew Shaw
Shared on:	י״ח בכסלו ה׳תשע״ב (2011-12-14)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags:	Sunrise, Wakefulness, Gratitude, Hypnogogic State, Dawn, Light, Darkness, Threshold, Compassion, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • An original liturgical poem inspired by the Modah\|Modeh Ani prayer. . . .

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
Shared on:	ז׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ט (2019-01-13)
Terms:	Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:	Baqashot
Tags:	romanticism, 19th century C.E., Light, first person, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, alternate rhyming scheme, animistic spirits, numinous beings, Jewish faeries, entering magical territory
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The poem “Tsafririm” (1900) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik with an English translation by Ben Aronin. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik
Shared on:	ט׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ט (2019-01-15)
Terms:	Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:	Baqashot, the New Sun
Tags:	20th century C.E., Light, modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., the sun, Prayers as poems
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The poem, “Im Shamesh” (At Sunrise) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik in June 1903. . . .

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