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tag: Prayers for leaders Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The order of seliḥot for the day after Rosh haShanah, which is Tsom Gedalyah – the fast of Gedalyah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A seliḥah for the Fast of Gedalyah, attributed to Rav Saadia Gaon. Categories: Tags: 10th century C.E., 47th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, assassination, elegies, Prayers for leaders, קינות Ḳinōt, סליחות səliḥot Contributor(s): The prayer for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and King Petar Ⅱ as found in Rabbi Salom Freiberger’s Siddur Rinah u-Tefilah: Molitvenik (1938). This “Prayer in honour of the Queen’s 90th birthday,” was first delivered by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis for the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth on Shabbat 11th June 2016, and shared via their website in English. Side-by-side with the English we have set the Hebrew text from the formula of the traditional prayer “haNoten Teshua” as used by the Office of the Chief Rabbi as amended in 2014. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Commonwealth, British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Great Britain, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Prayers for leaders, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, Queens Contributor(s): A plaudit of gratitude in Latin and Hebrew for Pope Benedict XIV’s interventions after the River Tiber overflowed its banks and flooded the Jewish Ghetto in Rome. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., flash floods, Floods, Latin translation, Pope Benedict XIV, Prayers for leaders Contributor(s): The following prayer for the government was composed by Congregation Beth Shalome in Richmond, Virginia in 1789. Please note the acrostic portion of the prayer in which the initial letters of the succeeding lines form the name: Washington. Categories: Government & Country, 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 United States of America Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., acrostic, American Jewry of the United States, George Washington, inaugurations, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, United States, Western Sefaradim Contributor(s): This is a full transcription of a patriotic and civic prayer service offered on 29 October 1795 at the German Jews’ Synagogue in London, composed by chief Rabbi Moses Myers and translated into English by David Levi. The prayers on behalf of King George Ⅲ came in the aftermath of the unraveling of the “Popgun Plot,” an alleged 1794 conspiracy by three members of the London Corresponding Society to assassinate the kning by means of a poison dart fired from an airgun. Three members, Paul Thomas LeMaitre, John Smith, and George Higgins, were arrested in late 1794, and Robert Thomas Crossfield in December 1795. Ultimately, all four were acquitted of treason in May 1796, on the grounds that the chief witness against them was dead. This is a full transcription of a patriotic and civic prayer service offered on 29 November 1798 at the German Jews’ Synagogue in London, composed by chief Rabbi Moses Myers and translated into English by David Levi. The unique prayers by Rabbi Myers are openly anti-French and anti-Napoleonic, in alignment with British sentiment in the war against the forces of Napoleon and thrilled with the naval defeat of Napoleonic forces at the Battle of the Nile in August of that year by rear admiral Horatio Nelson. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, civic prayers, First French Empire, Horatio Nelson, King George Ⅲ, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Prayers for leaders, United Kingdom in the Napoleonic Wars Contributor(s): A prayer by Rabbi David Sinzheim given during the Festival of Napoleon the Great on 15 August 1806, as recorded in Collection des Actes de l’Assemblée des Israélites de France et du Royaume d’Italie, pp. 218-219, and Raccolta degli atti dell’assemblea degli Israeliti di Francia e del regno d’Italia, p. 221. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Emancipation, Festival of Napoleon the Great (15 August), First French Empire, French Jewry, Grand Sanhedrin, Napoleon Bonaparte, Prayers for leaders Contributor(s): A prayer service for the Festival of Napoleon celebrating the Emperor’s birthday in 1808, included a novel prayer by Rabbi Jacob Nunes-Vais (1782-1812) for introducing the traditional prayer for the king, “hanoten teshua,” published in הוד מלכות (Hod Malkhut) Preghiere Recitate, E Cantate Nel Tempio Degli Ebrei Di Livorno, Il di 15. Agosto 1808. Ricorrendo Il Faustissimo Giorno Natalizio Di S. M. I., E R. L’ Augustissimo Napoleone I Imperatore De’Francesi, Re D’Italia, E Protettore Della Confederazione Del Reno. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Emancipation, Festival of Napoleon the Great (15 August), Livorno, Napoleon Bonaparte, Prayers for leaders Contributor(s): A speech given in honor of Napoleon concluding with a prayer by Abraham de Cologna, chief rabbi of the Central Consistory of Israelites, in 1809 on the anniversary of the emperor’s coronation. “Am Todestage des Gedaljahu. Zom Gedalja.” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №41, on pp. 52-53. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №40, on pp. 63-64. This is an opening prayer offered by Rabbi Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, before an address by Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) sponsored by the Young Men’s Hungarian Liberty Association in Albany, New York on 5 June 1852. The prayer was published as part of the “Programme of Exercises,” in The Asmonean (12 June 1852). This prayer of praise of Tsar Alexander II (1818-1881), for largely ending feudalism by emancipating the serfs of the Russian Empire was written by an unknown author and published in HaMelitz on Thursday, 28 March 1861. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Emancipation, Prayers for leaders, Russian Empire, Tsar Alexander II Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais (1828-1897), of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, was initially delivered on 15 April 1862 (the first day of Passover) at the conclusion of a sermon later printed in The Philadelphia Inquirer on 23 April 1862. A copy of that sermon was preserved in the Sabato Morais Ledger (p. 22, clip no. 23). (The prayer was also read by President Abraham Lincoln, who sent Rabbi Morais an acknowledgment). The letter was read into the congressional record on 29 February 1944 by Arthur G. Klein (1904-1968, D-NY) after it was brought to light by Moshe Davis at the 44th annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society on 12-13 February 1944 (Lincoln’s Birthday). Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, English vernacular prayer, Prayers for leaders, United States, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865) Contributor(s): The life of Rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yeḥiel Michel (MALBIM, 1809-1879) as a wandering rabbi and brilliant intellect reflects the changing expectations of Jews and Jewish religious authorities during the period of emancipation in 19th century Eastern Europe. In his capacity as the chief rabbi of Bucharest, Romania, MALBIM composed a prayer for Prince Alexander Ioan I Cuza (1820-1873), Domnitor. The prince had united the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1862 to form the Kingdom of Romania. During his reign, he managed to bring about a series of important land reforms benefiting the peasantry of Romania, and he did try to improve the situation for Jews under his rule. The emancipation of the Jews of Romania, announced with the Proclamation of Islaz during the Wallachian Revolution of 1848, had never actually gone into effect. In 1865, the prince announced a project which would lead to the “gradual emancipation of the people of Mosaic faith” but this effort was never realized due to Alexandru Ioan’s forced abdication and replacement by a Prussian King in 1866. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Emancipation, Moldavia, Needing Vocalization, Prayers for leaders, Romanian Jewry, Wallachia Contributor(s): Exalted are you Lincoln. Who is like you! Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, acrostic, American Jewry of the United States, assassination, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, civil rights, elegies, Emancipation, Memorial prayers, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, קינות Ḳinōt, United States, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865) Contributor(s): This thanksgiving prayer was offered by ḲḲ Shaar haShamayim (a/k/a Bevis Marks, the S&P Synagogue in London) upon the safe return of Sir Moses Montefiore from a trip to Romania on behalf of Romanian Jewry in 1867. The prayer was likely written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster who served as rabbi for Bevis Marks during this period and who had emigrated from Romania. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Emancipation, free translation, Moses Montefiore, Prayers for leaders, Romanian Jewry, Spanish-Portuguese Contributor(s): A prayer for the French Emperor, Napoleon III, a year before he was captured by the Prussians in the doomed Franco-Prussian War of 1870, including the formula of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Napoleon III. This prayer in eulogy for Vice President Henry Wilson was preserved on page 78 of the Sobato Morais Scrapbook (a/k/a, the Morais Ledger) in a clipping from the Evening Telegraph on 1 December 1875, “The Late Vice-President: A Eulogy by Rev. S. Morais, of the Seventh Street Synagogue.” Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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