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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Travel
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spaceship, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, 24th century C.E., starship, 62nd century A.M., sic itur ad astra, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, space travel, Leonard Nimoy Day (26 March), Leonard Nimoy z"l, where no earthling has gone before, spaceship Earth, North America, bli-mah, traveling without moving, ascent, Jacob's Ladder, the Chariot
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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. . . . |
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David Seidenberg, neohasid.org and Unknown Author(s)
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Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Travel, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty
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תחינות teḥinot, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh
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In this Tefilat haDerekh (the prayer for travel), I’ve made a synthesis of Ashkenazi and Sefardi nusaḥ. Even though the translation is pretty close to literal in most places, it comes across as an extraordinary and activist prayer for peace. So I think of this prayer not just as a prayer for the beginning a physical journey, but for any spiritual journey, and especially for any campaign or action for justice and peace that a person or group might undertake. When applied to activism, the “enmity and ambush and theft and predation” we ask to be rescued from could also be interpreted as hatred, deceit, jealousy, and aggression, i.e., the kinds of feelings that cause people to work against each other, even within an organization, instead of working together. I first used this version of the prayer at the beginning of a tour of Israel and Palestine focused on the human rights and non-violent resistance, when the group passed through the first checkpoint of the trip. . . . |
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Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi and Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D.
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Travel
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Cincinnati, תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, bicyclists, velocipede, bicycles, bikes, prayers for the road, transit, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
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May it be Your will, our God That You lead us toward peace; that You enable us to ride in safety; that You lead us with blessing. Save us from all accidents and unstable wheels, from a dangerous driver and a bounding chariot.[ref]after Nahum 3:2[/ref] Inspire in us unity of the material and the spiritual, Love of the ascent as well as the descent. Show us Your face, in the smallest of details and in the countenance of the other. Enable us to persevere on our journey toward love, truth and peace. Blessed are You, YHVH, the One who hears prayer. . . . |
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Abe Katz (translation), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Shlomo Goren
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Travel, Military Personnel & Veterans
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58th century A.M., תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, prayers on ships, 20th century C.E., צה״ל IDF, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, ocean
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“Tefilat haDerekh l’Tsevet haTsolelot,” a prayer by Rabbi Shlomo Goren for missions of submariners in the service of the IDF was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal (p. 76 in the 1963 printing). . . . |
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