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

הַכָּרָת רִבּוֹנוּת הָאָרֶץ | Indigenous Land Acknowledgment for Cincinnati, Ohio, by Aharon Varady (Havayah community, 2021)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady and Havayah community (Cincinnati)

Categories:

Ḳadesh, Indigenous Peoples' Day (2nd Monday of October), Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)

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indigenous land acknowledgement, post-colonial, petiḥah, 21st century C.E., Openers, 58th century A.M.

An indigenous land acknowledgement for Jewish communities in Cincinnati, Ohio. . . .

Prayer on Beginning a New Journal, by Aharon N. Varady

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady

Categories:

Self-Reflection, Solitude

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reflective practice, teḥinot in English, journaling, writing, petiḥah, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., Openers, 58th century A.M., North America, English vernacular prayer

May my thoughts seek truth and integrity, the humility that is commensurate with my ignorance, the compassion that arises from the depths of awareness, as depths speak to depths… . . .

פָּתַח אֵלִיָּֽהוּ | Pataḥ Eliyahu (Tiqqunei Zohar 17a), translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Erev Shabbat, Tiqqunei Zohar, Davvening

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prayers of kabbalists, interpretive translation, פתח אליהו Pataḥ Eliyahu, תפלין tefillin, תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying, petiḥah, Openers, Opening Prayers, 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., devotional interpretation

Elijah began saying: Lord of the worlds You Who are One and not just a number You are the highest of the highest most hidden of the undisclosed no thought scheme grasps You at all. . . .

Petition for Prayer, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Morrison David Bial

Categories:

Morning Baqashot

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20th century C.E., petiḥah, 58th century A.M., Prayers for Praying, English vernacular prayer

“Petition for Prayer” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 27, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . .

מַה־טֹּבֽוּ | Mah Tovu, translated from Rabbi David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid (1858) by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin (2020)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joshua Giorgio-Rubin and David Einhorn

Categories:

Entering Sacred Spaces

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19th century C.E., petiḥah, 57th century A.M., German translation, Prayers for Praying, centos, מה טבו mah tovu

This is Joshua Giorgio-Rubin’s English translation of Rabbi David Einhorn’s adaptation of the opening prayer “Mah Tovu” as found in Rubin’s Olat Hadashah: A Modern Adaptation of David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid for Shabbat Evening (2020). Rabbi Einhorn identifies the prayer by its familiar incipit from the verse Numbers 24:5, but left that verse untranslated. . . .