tagged: the invisible hand • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Opening Prayer on the Significance of Labor Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Eugene Kohn, John Paul Williams and Mordecai Kaplan

Categories:

International Workers' Day (May 1st), Labor Day (1st Monday of September)

Tags:

58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, capitalism, the invisible hand, 20th century C.E., ecumenical prayers

“Opening Prayer on the Significance of [Labor] Day” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p.165. . . .

Prière pour demander la subsistance | Prayer for sustenance, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron

Categories:

Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

Tags:

19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, the invisible hand

A prayer for parnassah (livelihood) for someone impoverished or in danger of poverty. . . .