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Prayer After the Bombing in Boston, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (2013)

Contributor(s):	Rachel Barenblat
Categories:	Terror
Tags:	Massachusetts, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, elegy, United States, Boston, קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	I wrote this a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing. It arose out of a meditation service which I led at my synagogue. The doors to our sanctuary were open, so we had the sounds of the nearby wetland in our ears, and I invited the meditators to join me in cultivating compassion and sending it toward Boston. The line “My heart is in the east and I am in the west” is adapted from the medieval Spanish poet Judah haLevi. . . .

תפילה לבאסטאן | Prayer for Boston after the bombing, by Rabbi Stephen Belsky (2013)

Contributor(s):	Stephen Belsky
Categories:	Terror
Tags:	Massachusetts, 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, American Jewry of the United States, prayers for municipalities, Boston, bombing, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	May the One who spoke the world into being, and who blessed humanity created in God’s image, and who brought about the miracle of these United States to promote freedom and peace among all people — bless, guard, and protect all the inhabitants of the Boston area, and strengthen and encourage their leaders, representatives, police officers, and detectives; bring them out from the shadow of death to light, and from danger to relief; and may the verse be fulfilled for them which says, ‘God is good to all, and shows mercy to all God’s creatures.’ And let us say: amein. . . .

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the Massachusetts State Senate: Rabbi Joseph Rudavsky on 24 March 1959

Contributor(s):	United States Congressional Record and Joseph Rudavsky
Categories:	Purim, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags:	86th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Massachusetts, Massachusetts Senate, Lawrence
	The opening prayer of the Massachusetts State Senate on 24 March 1959, added to the record of the U.S. House of Representatives. . . .

“Color-Coded Prayerbook Devised by Rabbi” (Martin Lauer, Springfield Republican 1972)

Contributor(s):	the Hierophant
Categories:	Press & Research Articles
Tags:	Jacob Freedman, North America, 58th century A.M., Massachusetts, 20th century C.E., antecedents, inspirations
	An article on Rabbi Jacob Freedman’s planned Polychrome Historical Haggadah from his local newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. . . .

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