Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 May 1967 on the eve of the Six Day between the State of Israel and its neighbors. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 25 May 1972. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 May 1967 on the eve of the Six Day between the State of Israel and its neighbors. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 May 1963. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 May 1964. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 May 1956. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 May 1976. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 May 1981. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 12 May 1983. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 May 1978. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This “Blessing upon Observing a Solar Eclipse” was offered by Rabbi Colman Reabo on 8 April 2024, a day in which a total solar eclipse was witnessed across a wide swath of North America. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 September 2023. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 August 2023. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer-poem for summoning the necessary courage, patience, and clarity for collective liberation as mapped onto the extra month of Adar in a leap year. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 9 August 2022. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 31 March 2022. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 11 March 2022. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 11 January 2022. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This prayer for those who must eat on Jewish fast days, was shared by Sarah Osborne for A Mitzvah to Eat on Facebook. The Hebrew translation of the prayer was offered by Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 September 2021. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer upon receiving a vaccination for COVID. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 46th President of the United States, 59th Presidential Inauguration, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, United States, 117th Congress, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, American Jewry of the United States A prayer for the government of the United States of America on the day of the 59th Presidential Inauguration. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A blessing for us and the year ahead from the last month of the Jewish calendar year. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A supplication of a woman cutting her hair as an act of tsanua, per a contemporary custom in many Ḥaredi communities. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 October 2020. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 February 2020. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 January 2020. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A blessing for announcing the new moon of Nisan, for Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan, and for the whole month. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A blessing for announcing the new moon of Av, for Rosh Ḥodesh Av, and for the whole month. A poem of grieving and gentleness as part of collective liberation. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A blessing for announcing the new moon of Elul, for Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, and for the whole month. A poem of kindness, rootedness and transformation as we enter into a time of turning and returning. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A soulful, playful, embodied, grounded poem for announcing the new moon of Tishrei, for Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei (otherwise known as Rosh HaShanah) and for the whole month. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A blessing for announcing the new moon of Adar, for Rosh Ḥodesh Adar, and for the whole month. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A poem-blessing for trailblazers of many kinds, to honor everyday courage and to inspire trust and self-compassion. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The full text of Rabbi Lauren Berkun’s benediction offered at the end of the third day of the Democratic National Convention, 20 August 2020. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer disseminated by the Masorti Movement in Israel in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in Israel and around the world. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: democratic process, democracy, Donald Trump, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., global warming, eco-conscious, global climate change, United States, ecoḥasid This prayer is broadly speaking a prayer that we learn to work together to create a better future, and it incorporates a pledge to do one thing for healing the world, for tikkun olam, that will make this future a reality. It’s not a prayer about winning or getting other people to see things our way, like some of the others I’ve seen. Whomever we support, we need to pray for strength for the next president, and for the whole country, to face what will be challenging times. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 December 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 December 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 November 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 November 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 October 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 July 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 July 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 June 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 May 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 March 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer in Hebrew to be said before a vaccination, with Yiddish and English translation. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: interdependence, human solidarity, interconnectedness, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish particularism, particularism and universalism, Israelis and Palestinians A prayer for Israeli-Palestinian solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identities greatly eclipse our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for human solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identity as Bnei Yisrael greatly eclipses our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: One small request to accompany the seliḥot service. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 February 2019. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Psalms 140 decries the injustice tolerated, supported, and rallied around within the community of Israel. This contemporary adaptation does the same. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, 115th Congress, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, anti-fascist, 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, תחינות teḥinot, Nuremberg Trials, 21st century C.E., Strange Fruit, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 November 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 115th Congress, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, United States Immigration Policy, welcoming, hospitality, תחינות teḥinot, hakhnasat orḥim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 September 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: embrace the stranger, welcome the immigrant, תחינות teḥinot, protect the refugee, 21st century C.E., United States Immigration Policy, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, 115th Congress, Prayers of Guest Chaplains The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 June 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 12 June 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 June 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 May 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 April 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 February 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 January 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 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. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a prayer to be read between the 17th and the 27th of Iyyar (בין י״ז ו-כ״ז באייר), between the 32nd (ל״ב) and 42nd (מ״ב) days of the Omer. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a prayer to be read between the 18th and the 27th of Iyyar (בין י״ח ו-כ״ז באייר), between the 33rd (ל״ג) and 42nd (מ״ב) days of the Omer. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: These are piyyutim written in a traditional style, meant to introduce the opening of each book in the Torah. These piyyutim can be used at any time the opening line of the reading is said – on the Shabbat Minḥa/Monday/Thursday prior to the reading OR on the Shabbat morning of the reading proper. Because of this, the sheets arranged including the readings use two sizes – a larger size for the shorter first reading for weekdays, and a smaller size for the full first reading on Shabbatot. They can only be read when the first verse of the book is read. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a petition for the worker in the style of “Av Haraḥamim” and similar texts, using Biblical and Mishnaic language and co-opting it into a new meaning. It could be read after the Torah service (like many other petitionary texts) or focused on in private. The Biblical relationship between God, humanity, and labor is fascinating. Often it is treated as a curse placed upon us, and just as often as the purpose of humanity. In Genesis 3:19 it is the curse placed upon a disobedient First Adam, but less than a chapter earlier in Genesis 2:15 it is the reason for First Adam’s creation in the first place! In the past century or so, traditional Judaism has somewhat tilted away from the ideas of worker’s rights so clearly stated in the Tanakh and in rabbinic texts. Partially this was to disassociate from the Bundists, partially out of fear of “looking too Communist” in a xenophobic American society, and partially because the Jewish working class is nowhere near as substantial a part of the community as it once was. If this text is meant to do anything, it’s to show that love of God and love of the worker aren’t opposed to each other – in fact, they go hand in hand! . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: If it is a mitsvah to guard our lives and strengthen our bodies in service of our holy mission, then there should be a brakhah (blessing) before we start a session of vigorous activity; any excuse to add blessings to our day is a wonderful opportunity for personal growth! . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, devotional interpretation, wedding blessings, blessings, שבע ברכות sheva brakhot, ברכות brakhot, interpretive translation, North America, תחינות teḥinot This is a poetic rendering of the sixth blessing (of the Sheva Brakhot/7 Blessings) for a wedding. It riffs off of themes and language in the Hebrew text of joy, love, and companionship, and invocations of the Garden of Eden, creation, and eternity. Written originally for the wedding of friends; I hope you’ll feel free to adapt and rework it however suits your needs! . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This prayer for planting was composed by Zeev Kainan for Tu biShvat (2018) for the Masorti Movement for Conservative Judaism in Israel. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A plea to not become numb in the face of overwhelming cruelty. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Flash floods are dangerous in every season, but are rare in the dry season, after most rain and snow are thought to have fallen. Changes in the global climate due to global warming caused by anthropogenic activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and the conversion of land for raising animals for their meat is a significant contributor to extreme weather experienced around the world. The Masorti Movement of Israel’s prayer for flood victims was first published on their website, here. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for justice offered for the Poor People’s Campaign Rally for Action at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston on March 22, 2018. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 October 2017. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 September 2017. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 August 2017 . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 June2017. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 June2017. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 May 2017. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 May 2017. . . . |