tagged: שפע shefa • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

“An important message, November 2023,” a prayer-poem in the form of a shipping notice by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

Contributor(s):

Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

“An important message, November 2023” is a shipping notice from God and a meditation on parochial empathy. . . .

שִׁירַת הַדֶּרֶךְ הָרְחָבָה | Song of the Open Road, by Walt Whitman (1856), Hebrew translation by Shimon Halkin (1952)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Shimon Halkin (translation) and Walt Whitman

The famous poem by Walt Whitman in its original English with its Hebrew translation. . . .

אַשְׁרֵי יוֹשְׁבֵי בֵיתֶךָ | Ashrei Yoshvei Veitekha :: Sitting in your home is happiness (Psalms 145), translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and the Masoretic Text

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Ashrei in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .