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Salvation through Labor, a prayer for the Sabbath before Labor Day, adapted from the writings of A.D. Gordon by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Mordecai Kaplan and Aaron David Gordon

Categories:

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

Tags:

Labor Zionism, Hapoel Hatsair, Yom Ha'Avodah, work as worship, 20th century C.E., worship as work, טבע Teva, labor, 58th century A.M., work, Nature

“Salvation through Labor,” adapted by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan from the writings of Aaron David Gordon, can be found on p. 548-551 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945). The translation was attributed in the Sabbath Prayer Book to its editors (Mordecai Kaplan & Eugene Kohn, assisted by Ira Eisenstein and Milton Steinberg). . . .