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אֵל מָלֵא לְאַסְטְרוֹנָאוּטִים וְגָּשׁוֹשִׁיתוֹת | El Malé for Astronauts and Probes, by Aryeh Baruch 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. . . . 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. . . . Contributor(s):The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 September 1988. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Haim Kemelman on 25 February 1971 Contributor(s):The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 February 1971. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Howard A. Simon on 26 May 1969 Contributor(s):The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 May 1969. . . . Contributor(s):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. . . . |
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