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כוונה לקראת ישיבת הבורד | Kavvanah before the Meeting of the Board of a Philanthropic Organization, by Limor Rubin

Contributor(s):

David Hoffman (translation) and Limor Rubin

Categories:

Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, universalist prayers, צדקה tsedaqah, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael

A prayer of intention before the meeting of the board of a philanthropic organization determining the recipients of the largess in their trust. . . .

[Prayer on] the Birthday of the United Nations, by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1947)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes

Categories:

United Nations, United Nations Day (October 24th)

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English vernacular prayer, Universal Peace, universalist prayers, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., North American Jewry

A prayer for United Nations Day, the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. . . .

הִנֵּה שָׁם אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Where We Can Find Yah, a prayer-poem by Eugene Kohn (1945) inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (Song Offerings, 1912)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Eugene Kohn, David Frischmann (translation) and Rabindranath Tagore

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🤦 Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat

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58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, cosmic religion, is it Sikh or Hassidic?, universalist prayers, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, 20th century C.E.

“Where We Can Find God,” a prayer-poem inspired by passages appearing in David Frishman’s Hebrew translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. . . .

Prayer for Brotherhood, by Stephen Vincent Benét on United Nations Flag Day (14 June 1942)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Stephen Vincent Benét

Categories:

Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), National Brotherhood Week, United Nations, United Nations Day (October 24th), Flag Day (June 14)

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vexillology, universalist prayers, 20th century C.E., United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Universal Peace, World War Ⅱ

This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . .

Prayer on Behalf of the Religious Diversity of Humanity, by the Jewish Religious Union of London (1902)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Claude Montefiore, Morris David Joseph, Lilian Helen Montagu and the Jewish Religious Union of London

Categories:

Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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English vernacular prayer, universalist prayers, 20th century C.E., pluralism, אחדות aḥdut (togetherness), tolerance of difference, 57th century A.M.

This prayer for a pluralism respecting religious and philosophical differences, first appears in A Selection of Prayers, Psalms, and Other Scriptural Passages, and Hymns for Use at the Services of the Jewish Religious Union (1902), where it is №7 on page 6. (In the revised 1903 edition of the prayerbook, it is №20 on page 20.) . . .