  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: assassination, Prayers for leaders, Yitsḥaq Rabin, סליחות seliḥot, ישראל Yisrael, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, elegies, קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., Assassination of Yitsḥaq Rabin, 58th century A.M., Memorial prayers, prime minister Jews around the world fast on the day after Rosh haShanah to commemorate the murder of Gedalyahu son of Aḥiqam, the officer appointed over Judah who sought to make peace and rebuild before being murdered by a religious extremist and officially bringing an end to the first commonwealth era. The tragedy of Gedalyahu is not just that he was assassinated, but that he was assassinated by a Jew who was using religion (specifically his claim to the line of David) as an excuse. This narrative bears striking similarities to the murder of Prime Minister Yitzḥaq Rabin on 12 Marḥeshvan 5756. On account of this, some Jews have taken it upon themselves to memorialize Rabin on Tzom Gedalyahu as well. This piyyut could be added to the seliḥot for Tzom Gedalyahu, or part of a new seliḥot service for 12 Marḥeshvan. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This paraliturgical adaptation of the El Malei prayer for an Interfaith Memorial Service for the Homeless was offered by Rabbi Victor Reinstein in 2014. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: May the words we are with Your help sharing today, Speak deeply –- with Your help — to our nation and the world. Help us all to know that the sharing of our breath with all of life Is the very proof, the very truth, that we are One. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer on the anniversary of the attacks on 11 September 2001. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This is the prayer offered at the “Memorial Service on Friday, 15th February, 1952 (Eve of Sabbath, 19th Shebat, 5712) at the New West End Synagogue (London, W. 2) for His Late Majesty King George (VI)” as given by the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (officiated by Dayan Dr. I. Grunfeld and Rabbi Dr. A. Altmann, M.A. [Joint Deputies for the Chief Rabbi], the Rev. Ephraim Levine, M.A., the Rev. R.H. Levy, M.A.). Many thanks to Jeffrey Maynard for providing the page images of the service containing this prayer at his blog, Jewish Miscellanies. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: civil rights, 57th century A.M., Memorial prayers, Abraham Lincoln, assassination, 19th century C.E., American Jewry of the United States, United States, Prayers for leaders, acrostic, Presidents Day, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), Emancipation, elegies, קינות Ḳinnot, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Exalted are you Lincoln. Who is like you! You were highly respected among Kings and Princes. All that you accomplished you did with a humble spirit. You are singular and cannot be compared to anyone else. Who among the great are like Lincoln? Who can be praised like you? . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Memorial prayers, 19th century C.E., Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish, קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish, English Translation, prayers of orphans, personal, תחינות teḥinot, Without a Minyan, 57th century A.M., Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution Please Lord, Sovereign of Compassion, God, Arbiter of the spirits of all flesh, Parent of Orphans and Judge of widows: God, from the source of Your holiness! May my prayer and the Torah of life that I have learned come before you on account of the soul . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for unveiling a tombstone, according to the custom of the Jews of Pressburg. . . . |