Prayer in the event of a sluggish Internet response, by Aharon Varady
Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=59908
open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license date_src_start: 2025-02-02 date_src_end: 2025-02-02 languages_meta: [{"name":"English","code":"eng","standard":"ISO 639-3"},{"name":"Hebrew","code":"heb","standard":"ISO 639-3"}] scripts_meta: [{"name":"Latin","code":"Latn","standard":"ISO 15924"},{"name":"Hebrew (Ktav Ashuri)","code":"Hebr","standard":"ISO 15924"}] Date: 2025-02-02
Last Updated: 2025-04-11
Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., תחינות teḥinot
Excerpt: A prayer for a friend who needs prompt and useful data in response to their Internet queries. . . .
Content:
Who here hasn’t been frustrated by some slow, intermittent, or unreliable Internet communication. As a friend writes, “sometimes the Internet is not connective, sometimes the wifi is on the fritz, sometimes your own computer is having issues, sometimes the website is down. While there are many diagnoses for this illness, sometimes the page just fails to load.” When all else fails, or perhaps to supplement all the effort of one’s troubleshooting, here is a prayer I’ve written. The story in Genesis 8:6-12 of the raven and the dove sent out as messengers by Noaḥ to relay helpful and trustworthy news of the life sustaining conditions outside the Ark, provided a much needed prompt in composing the following petition. The prayer may be useful for the secure relay of all messages, whether they be carried by data packets, pneumatic tubes, or appropriately compensated messengers. In the case of human or non-human animal messengers, please add a prayer for their safety that their going and returning be watched over as the angels in their רָצוֹא וָשׁוֹב (going and returning) per Ezekiel 1:14.
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יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְּפָּנֶיךָ,
ה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ וֵאלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ וְאִמּוֹתֵינוּ,
כְּשֵׁם שֶׁהֶחְזַרְתָּ אֶת הַיּוֹנָה
שֶׁשָּׁלַח נֹחַ מִן־הֶחַלּוֹן הַתֵּבָה
אָז אוּלַי תַּחְזֹר הַשְּׁאֵלָה שֶׁשָּׁלַחְתִּי
לַחַלּוֹן שֶׁלִּי עִם תְּשׁוּבָה מוֹעִילָה
שֶׁכַּתוּב:
”וַתָּבֹא אֵלָיו הַיּוֹנָה לְעֵת עֶרֶב
וְהִנֵּה עֲלֵה־זַיִת טָרָף בְּפִיהָ
וַיֵּדַע נֹחַ כִּי־קַלּוּ הַמַּיִם
מֵעַל הָאָרֶץ“ (בראשית ח:יא).
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May it be your will
Hashem our elo’ah, and elo’ah of our ancestors,
that just as you returned the dove
that Noaḥ sent out from the window of the tévah
so may you return the query I sent out
back to my window, with useful information,
as it is written:
“The dove came back to him toward evening,
and there in its bill — a plucked olive leaf!
Then Noaḥ knew that the waters had subsided
from upon the earth. (Genesis 8:11)
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Contributor: Aharon N. Varady
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Name: Aharon N. Varady
Bio: Aharon Varady is the founding director of the Open Siddur Project. A community planner (M.C.P, DAAP/University of Cincinnati.) and Jewish educator (M.A.J.Ed., the William Davidson School of Education), his work in open-source Judaism has been written about in the Yiddish Forverts, the Atlantic Magazine, Tablet, and Haaretz. If you find any egregious mistakes in his work, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also transcribes and translates prayers, besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/aharon-varady
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