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בִּרְכוֹת הַתּוֹרָה | Birkhot haTorah, paraliturgical reflections by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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Birkhot haTorah, Birkhot haShaḥar, Torah Study

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ברכות התורה birkhot haTorah, paraliturgical birkhot haTorah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, shame resilience

A paraliturgical reflection on the blessings over learning Torah, the Birkhot haTorah, for a shame resilience practice. . . .

Prayer before reading the Bible, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Grace Aguilar

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Birkhot haTorah

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family prayers, 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English, paraliturgical birkhot haTorah

“Prayer before reading the Bible” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 155-156. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on page 166. . . .