tagged: Prayers of Jewish Educators • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

סתיו הנחל יסודי | A Kavvanah for Teaching Children, by Eli Steier

Contributor(s):

Mohammed Dajani (translation) and Eli Steier

I wrote this kavvanah [around 2010]. At that time I lived in Ithaca, NY. I was a substitute teacher in the Ithaca Central School District. There was a community event at Fall Creek Elementary school, and the way families, faculty, students, and people from the area came together inspired the poem. . . .

Prayer of a Congregational Rabbi upon their Installation, by Rabbi Wolf Gunther Plaut (1961)

Contributor(s):

Wolf Gunther Plaut and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

“Installation Prayer” by Rabbi Wolf Gunther Plaut was first published in Rabbi Morrison David Bial’s anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 51, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . .

[Prayer for a] Teachers’ Commencement, by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1951)

Contributor(s):

Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A prayer offered at a ceremony honoring the graduated of the New Jersey State Teachers’ College in Newark in 1951. . . .

Prière des assistants a l’initiation | Prayer of the (Bar/Bat Mitsvah) tutors at the initiation, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

Contributor(s):

Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

A prayer offered by the tutors of a Bar or Bat Mitsvah after they are confirmed in a public ceremony. . . .