תפלה להסרת מסכה | A Prayer for Removing the Mask, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx and Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem (2021)

Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=44705

Date: 2021-06-16

Last Updated: 2025-02-02

Categories: Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., COVID-19 coronavirus, ישראל Yisrael

Excerpt: "A Prayer for Removing the Mask," was composed by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx and Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem in June 2021. The English translation was made by Alex Cicelsky. . . .

Content:

Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
מוֹדה אֲנִי לְפָנֶיךָ וּלְךָ, עַל הַחֶסֶד וְעַל הָרְפוּאָה וְעַל עֲצִירַת הַמַּגֵּפָה. עַל הַזְּכוּת לִרְאוֹת פְּנֵי אָדָם בְּהִתְגַּלּוּתָם וְעַל הַרְחָבַת צְעָדֵינוּ בָּאָרֶץ הַגְּדוֹלָה וְהַיָּפָה.	I give thanks before You and to You for the compassion and healing, for putting an end to this plague, for the privilege of seeing human faces reemerging, and for appreciating this expansive and beautiful earth as we stride forward.
נַקְשִׁיב לְרוּחוֹת הַשִּׁנּוּי וְנִדְבַּק בָּן. נִתְחַיֵּב לִשְׁמֹר עַל עוֹלָם וְאָדָם. עִם הֲסָרַת הַמַּסֵּכָה נַגְדִּיל טוֹבָה וּבְרָכָה, וְעַד מְהֵרָה יֵאָמֵר בְּכָל הָעוֹלָם: ”וְהַמַּגֵּפָה נֶעֱצָֽרָה“ (במדבר יז:טו חלק)	Let us listen to the winds of change and adhere to them. Let us promise to preserve our world and each other. With the removal of the mask let us increase the good and the blessing around us, and may it be speedily said all over the world: “And the plague ceased” (Numbers 17:15 part).

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“A Prayer for Removing the Mask,” was composed by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx and Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem in June 2021. The English translation was made by Alex Cicelsky.

Source

A Blessing for Removing the Mask, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx and Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem (English 2021)

A Blessing for Removing the Mask, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx and Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem (Hebrew 2021)

 

Contributor: Alex Cicelsky (translation)

Co-authors:

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  Name: Alex Cicelsky (translation)
  Bio: Alex Cicelsky is a researcher and educator in energy efficient construction, natural materials in buildings and sustainable solutions for shelter, food, energy, water and waste at the Center for Creative Ecology, Israel.
  Website:
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/alex-cicelsky
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  Name: Inbar Bluzer Shalem
  Bio: Rabbi Inbar Bluzer Shalem is co-founder and CEO of Rashut Ha`Rabim, an umbrella organization for the renewal of Jewish life in Jerusalem.. Previously, Inbar founded and directed Haifa Hillel and was the first Hillel shlicha to the University of Massachusetts; she holds a BA in economics and an MA in humanitarian affairs through a joint program of Israelis and Palestinians in Italy. Inbar is the alumna of six pluralistic Batei Midrash programs in Israel. She has recently been ordained as a rabbi following completion of her rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College. She also received an MA in pluralistic Jewish education from Hebrew University. Inbar is married and lives in Jerusalem with three of the most amazing children in the city.
  Website: https://rashut-harabim.org/en/team-members/inbar-bluzer-shalem/
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/inbar-bluzer-shalem
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  Name: Dalia Marx
  Bio: Rabbi Dalia Marx (PhD) is the Aaron Pankin professor of liturgy and Midrash at the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College-JIR, and teaches in various academic institutions in Israel and Europe. Marx, tenth generation in Jerusalem, earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University and her rabbinic ordination at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem and Cincinnati. She is involved in various research projects and is active in promoting liberal Judaism in Israel. Marx writes for academic and popular journals and publications. She is the author of בזמן: מסעות בלוח השנה היהודי ישראלי (Bazman 2018), When I Sleep and when I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn (Yediot Sfarim 2010, in Hebrew), A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud (Mohr Siebeck, 2013, in English) and the co-editor of a few books. She was the chief editor of T'fillat HaAdam: Israeli Reform Siddur (2020). Marx lives in Jerusalem with her husband Rabbi Roly Zylbersztein (PhD) and their three children.
  Website: https://dalia-marx.com
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/dalia-marx

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Title: Israelis walk in Jerusalem without masks after the coronavirus restrictions were eased Sunday (Photo: AFP)
Caption: Israelis walk in Jerusalem without masks after the coronavirus restrictions were eased Sunday (Photo: AFP)