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תשובה teshuvah —⟶ tag: תשובה teshuvah Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This penitential prayer dated “Tishri 5628 [October 1867]” was offered in conclusion to “A Penitential Sermon” reprinted in The Jewish Messenger on 25 November 1867. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (page 34, clipping 041), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Philadelphia, Ḳ.Ḳ. Miḳveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), סליחות səliḥot, תשובה teshuvah Contributor(s): Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayer “For forgiveness” was first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, pages 99-100. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayer “For reconciliation” was first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, page 99. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): “Tolerance” is the twenty-fourth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 83-86. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., בצלם אלהים btselem Elohim, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, welcome the stranger Contributor(s): “Compensation” is the twenty-fifth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 87-89. “Envy” is the twenty-third prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 80-82. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Ahavat Hashem, English vernacular prayer, exhortation, עין הרע predatory gaze (ill will/evil eye), teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot Contributor(s): “Starting Anew” is found early on in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 15-18. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution to any of the prayers in this volume. The author was likely one of the members of the Committee on Book of Meditations and Prayers: Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris S. Lazaron, and Abram Simon. The prayer-poem ““Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin”” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in her posthumously published anthology, Poetry and Prose (1932), p. 94-95. A prayer-poem by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan based on the writings of Rabbi Leo Baeck, as published in the Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1945), p.426-7. “Repentance” is the thirty-sixth prayer in the “Meditations” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 200. It is one of only three new prayers found in this section (the others having been reprinted from CCAR’s 1923 collection of teḥinot). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, determinism, English vernacular prayer, self, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): “The Open Door of the Heart” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), pp. 43-44, from where this prayer was transcribed. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., exhortation, Prayers for Praying, רשויות reshuyot, self-care, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): This is an adaptation of the “Last Rites of Bokonon” from the 99th chapter of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle (1963) translated by Amatsyah Porat for the 1978 Hebrew language edition of the novel. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): As the month of Elul wanes, we are preparing. We prepare for the new moon, we prepare for Rosh Hashanah, and we prepare for the zombie invasion. I have it on good authority, as do you, that the onslaught is imminent. The alarm blares every morning — a shofar blast and a warning… Categories: Tags: cannibalism, d'var t'fillah, אלול elul, predation, predatory nature, תהלים Psalms, Psalms 27, Tehillim, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Difficult People (in two parts)” was first offered on Yom Kippur 5772 (2011) at Pleasantville Community Synagogue (Pleasantville, NY), and has since appeared in congregational newsletters, blogs, and on the website “Restless Pilgrim.” The prayer (in two parts) begins with a focus on the difficult people in our lives, then shifts and becomes a prayer that we ourselves not be difficult people in the lives of others. A playful, expansive, embodied riff on “Hashiveinu Hashem eilecha v’nashuva, ḥadesh yameinu k’kedem.” Suitable for Tisha B’Av, Elul, the Days of Awe, and every day. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): David Wolkin writes, “I’ve been pushing this writing exercise for a while now, but I taught a class with it in my home on Sunday and it proved to be powerful and connecting for all of us in the room. If you’re reflecting/repenting this season, you might benefit from this.” Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, journaling, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), North America, self-reflection, תשובה teshuvah, writing Contributor(s): “For Tisha be’Av: Our Cherished Litany of Loss” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was first published on his website, here. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, first person, ירושלם Jerusalem, Prayers as poems, תשובה teshuvah Contributor(s): A derivation of the popular piyyut for the Yamim Noraim, “Mi She’anu” which references the archetypal characters of the Star Trek paracosm. Categories: Tags: 24th century C.E., 62nd century A.M., עננו anenu, Avot and Imahot, crossovers, deuterocanonical works, egalitarian, Jews of Star Trek, liturgy of the wandering stars, מי שענה Mi She’anah, סליחות səliḥot, Star Trek, Starfleet, תשובה teshuvah, United Federation of Planets Contributor(s): A guiding text and haggadah for a Seder Pesaḥ Sheni. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Today I turned my heart toward the new year and wrote a prayer-poem for Tashlikh, the Rosh haShanah ritual of casting bread or stones into the water to cast off one’s past wrongdoings. | ||
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