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

How Much Light? A Ḥanukkah Meditation by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

Contributor(s):	Menachem Creditor
Categories:	Ḥanukkah
Tags:	58th century A.M., Light, kindling, 21st century C.E.
	“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
Tags:	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, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
Tags:	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, entering
	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
Tags:	English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), Hypnogogic State, Dawn, Light, Darkness, Threshold, Compassion, 21st century C.E., Sunrise, 58th century A.M., Wakefulness
	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
Categories:	Baqashot
Tags:	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, alternate rhyming scheme, animistic spirits
	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), Leonard Victor Snowman and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik
Categories:	Baqashot, the New Sun
Tags:	20th century C.E., Light, modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., the sun, Prayers as poems
	The poem, “Im Shamesh” (At Sunrise) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik in June 1903. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Daniel Bar Sadeh-Weise (transcription) and Wolf Mayer
Categories:	Erev Shabbat
Tags:	lamp lighting, 19th century C.E., Light, kindling, candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry
	“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. . . .

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