tagged: Wednesday • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Wednesday’s Prayer, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Lilian Helen Montagu

“Wednesday’s Prayer” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 13-14. . . .

[Gebet] Am Mittwoch, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)

Contributor(s):

Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda

This is the prayer for Wednesday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Wednesday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . .

Méditation Pour le Mercedi | Meditation for Wednesday (the Fourth Day), by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1852)

Contributor(s):

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

A paraliturgical prayer for the Psalm for Wednesday, in French with English translation. . . .

Am vierten Tag der Woche | On the fourth day of the week, a teḥinah by Isaak Pleßner (1829)

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Isaak Pleßner

“Am vierten Tag der Woche” was included by Yehoshua Heshil Miro in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №8 on pp. 10-12. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it also appears as teḥinah №8 on pp. 12-13. In a note to “Gebet am Tage der Gedächtnißfeier verstorbener Eltern, an deren Grabe zu sprechen” published in the 1835 edition, Miro records that Isaak Plessner sent this prayer to him, and from this we infer that its authorship may also be attributed to him. . . .

תהלים צ״ד | Psalms 94, the psalm for Wednesday (translation by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)

This psalm was the Wednesday song of the Levites in the Holy Temple. . . .

תהלים צ״ח | Psalms 98, abridged translation by Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman & Shaul Vardi

Contributor(s):

Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)

Psalms 98, in Hebrew with an abridged translation. . . .