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Prayers as poems —⟶ tag: Prayers as poems Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “Lord, do Thou guide me” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅥ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat b’Shalaḥ) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 34. “Jacob’s Dream” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—Ⅶ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Vayetsei) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), pp. 15-16. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, פרשת ויצא parashat Vayetsei Contributor(s): “Not Worthy” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—Ⅷ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Vayishlaḥ) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), pp. 17-18. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, פרשת וישלח parashat Vayishlaḥ, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Commit Thy Way” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅡ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Pinḥas) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 96. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אמונה emunah, English vernacular prayer, פרשת פנחס parashat Pinḥas, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “The Peace of God” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅩⅩⅤ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat b’Midbar) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 83. “Yea, More Than They” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅣ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Mas’ei) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 98. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Forgiveness, Mosheh Rabbenu, פרשת מסעי parashat masei, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Faith” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅩⅩⅥ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Naso) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 84. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אמונה emunah, English vernacular prayer, פרשת נשא parashat Naso, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Souls of the Righteous” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅦ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Éqev) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 103. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Forgiveness, פרשת עקב parashat Eqev, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “From Psalm Ⅳ” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—Ⅼ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Ki Tétsei) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 107. The poem “Unsung Heroism” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 141. The poem “Tsafririm” (1900) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik with an English translation by Ben Aronin. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alternate rhyming scheme, animistic spirits, entering magical territory, first person, Jewish faeries, Light, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, numinous beings, Prayers as poems, romanticism Contributor(s): The poem, “Im Shamesh” (At Sunrise) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik in June 1903. “The Hebrew’s Friday Night (After Burns)” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), pp. 114-116. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Seder-Night” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), p. 117. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Ʝehovah” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), pp. 132-133. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical birkat mehayeh hametim, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): The poem, Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, eros, modern hebrew poetry, Mrozy, Prayers as poems, Queens, מי או מה who or what Contributor(s): The well known philosopher Bertrand Russell had little use for organized religion and in general was quite skeptical in his religious beliefs. I am not a regular reader of Russell but apparently Mordecai Kaplan read him from time to time. In the early 1940s he came across a short essay which Russell wrote many years before entitled “A Free Man’s Religious Worship” (1910). Kaplan mentions the essay a number of times in the diary and I am struck by the fact that Kaplan quotes and focuses on what he considers to be some positive statements in this essay. As a consequence I have been reading Russell and here offer some inspiring statements from this essay. I have taken the liberty of selecting my own statements from this essay. Russell is referring here to all our fellow human beings and our obligations to all others. It is obvious that in true reconstructionist fashion we could use these statements as a prayer. To pray from Russell would be an inspiration from Kaplan. The Nobel prize winning collection of “song-offerings” or Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, in Bengali and English, translated to Hebrew by David Frischmann. “My America (Our New Hymn)” was written by Morris Rosenfeld and published by the Jewish Morning Journal sometime mid-April 1917. On April 2nd, the United States had entered the World War against Germany and its allies. In the xenophobic atmosphere of the United States during World War Ⅰ, Representative Isaac Siegel (1880-1947), R-NY, offered the hymn as evidence of the patriotism of America’s “foreign-born” Jewish immigrants. The poem in its English translation was added to the Congressional Record on 18 April 1917 in an extension of remarks. Xenophobia in the United States though did not ebb. Nearly a year later, on April 4, 1918, a German immigrant, Robert Prager, was lynched in Collinsville, Illinois. Categories: 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th), 🇺🇸 Veterans Day (11 November), 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic hymns, Prayers as poems, rhyming translation, United States home front during World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅰ, Yiddish translation, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): The poem “Friday Night” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (ed. Friedlander & Kohut 1917), p. 269. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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