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tag: space travel Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The day after humankind’s first landing on the Lunar surface July 20, 1969, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on a poetic and topical innovation to the Ḳiddush Levanah, the Sanctification of the Moon, by the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, Shlomo Goren. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 May 1969. . . . Categories: Tags: 91st Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, space travel, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 February 1971. . . . Categories: Tags: 92nd Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, space science, space travel, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 September 1988. . . . Categories: Tags: 100th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers for astronauts, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, space science, space travel, STS-26, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): A prayer, inspired by Tefilat haDerekh and other traditional liturgical texts, for a Jew who, at some future point, would be about to go forth on a starship. Doesn’t include a chatimah so as not to be a brakhah levatalah, in the case that starships are (chas v’shalom) never invented. . . . Categories: Tags: 24th century C.E., 62nd century A.M., ascent, בלי־מה bli-mah, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, Jacob's Ladder, Jews of Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy z"l, Leonard Nimoy Day (26 March), North America, sic itur ad astra, space travel, spaceship, spaceship Earth, starship, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, the Chariot, traveling without moving, where no earthling has gone before Contributor(s): In 2016 after reading David Brin’s Earth (1990), I wrote this blog post and later felt inspired to write this variant of El Malé for the vessels and probes that carry our dream of space science, and then also for the astronauts who died while pursuing that dream. . . . | ||
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