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A non-denominational and non-prescriptive community-grown libre Open Access archive of digitized Jewish prayer literature. (Project announcements and other toots via our shamesh, @aharonium.bsky.social )
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Resources shared for Simḥat Torah opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Simḥat Torah • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the festival of Simḥat Torah, celebrated on the same day as Shemini Atseret in Erets Yisrael and on the second festival day of Shemini Atsere...
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Prayer for Dwelling in the Sukkah of the Leviyatan, as taught in the name of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (ca. 13th c.) opensiddur.org?p=52770
Prayer for Dwelling in the Sukkah of the Leviyatan, as taught in the name of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (ca. 13th c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This formula for recitation in the Sukkah at the conclusion of Sukkot (on the night of Shemini Atseret) is given in the name of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1215-1293) and found in two sources: Siman 148...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 1d
Resources shared for Shemini Atseret opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Shemini Atseret • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the festival of שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת Shemini Atseret. On Shemini Atseret, the Tefilat Geshem (prayer for rain) is offered for the fertility of a...
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Resources shared for 🇺🇸 Indigenous Peoples’ Day (2nd Monday of October) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
🇺🇸 Indigenous Peoples' Day (2nd Monday of October) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers composed for or relevant to Indigenous People’s Day, a civic holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histor...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 1d
עַל הַנִּסִּים ביום שחרור השבויים כ״א בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשפ״ו תשרי | Al Hanissim for the Day of Hostage Release upon the Two Year Anniversary of October 7 by Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny (Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles) opensiddur.org?p=63950
עַל הַנִּסִּים ביום שחרור השבויים כ״א בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשפ״ו תשרי | Al Hanissim for the Day of Hostage Release upon the Two Year Anniversary of October 7 by Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny (Temple Beth Am, Los...
This al hanissim for the day of the release of the remaining living hostages taken by HAMA"S to Gaza on 7 October 2023, was offered by Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorny (Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles) on 13 O...
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תפילה לפני חלוקת תרופות | Prayer before the dispensation of medication, by Dafna Meir, z”l opensiddur.org?p=12517
תפילה לפני חלוקת תרופות | Prayer before the dispensation of medication, by Dafna Meir, z"l • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This prayer was originally published April 13th, 2013 on Dafna Meir's blog, Derekh Nashim (Women's Ways), here, writing "את התפילה זכיתי לחבר תוך כדי למידה למבחן תרופות במחלקה הנוירוכירורגית בסורוקה, ...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 2d
Rude are the Tabernacles Now, a hymn for Hoshana Rabbah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842) opensiddur.org?p=40428
Rude are the Tabernacles Now, a hymn for Hoshana Rabbah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
"Rude are the Tabernacles now," by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject "Tabernacles (Sucote)" as Hymn 65 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim,...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 2d
Resources shared for Hoshana Rabba opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Hoshana Rabba • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, mostly hoshanot, for the 7th and final day of Sukkot: הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּא (Hoshana Rabba). Together with Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabbah is the third in a tr...
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הושענא למען השיקום, שנת תשפ״ו | Hosha-na for Rebuilding Sukkot, 5786 — by Shoshana Michael Zucker (Ḳehillat Hod veHadar) opensiddur.org?p=63926
הושענא למען השיקום, שנת תשפ״ו | Hosha-na for Rebuilding Sukkot, 5786 — by Shoshana Michael Zucker (Ḳehillat Hod veHadar) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A Hoshana for Sukkot 5786 to balance the memory of the horrors of 7 October 2023 and the tense anticpation of October 2025, after the ceasefire agreement was signed but not fully implemented. . . .
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 2d
The promise of Jewish safety under regal protection vs. legal emancipation under guaranteed rights generated alignments, sympathies (and contradictions) that continue to shape religio-political identity even today. For more prayers in the context of emancipation, find opensiddur.org/tagged/emanc...
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This is 1/2 prayer services, that we know of, offered by chief Rabbi Moses Myers at the New Synagogue in London as the ripples of the French revolution and the promise of emancipation under a new post-Enlightenment order were received by British Jewry. For the other, find: opensiddur.org?p=63848
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In the aftermath of an attempted assassination, a Prayer Service of Thanksgiving for the wellbeing of King George Ⅲ — by Rabbi Moses Myers and David Levi (29 October 1795) opensiddur.org?p=63897
In the aftermath of an attempted assassination, a Prayer Service of Thanksgiving for the wellbeing of King George Ⅲ — by Rabbi Moses Myers and David Levi (29 October 1795) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ ...
This is a full transcription of a patriotic and civic prayer service offered on 29 October 1795 at the German Jews' Synagogue in London, composed by chief Rabbi Moses Myers and translated into English...
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אֶקְחָה בָּרִאשׁוֹן | Ekḥah Barishon — a silluq piyyut for the first day of Sukkot by Elazar haKalir opensiddur.org?p=63877 (translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
אֶקְחָה בָּרִאשׁוֹן | Ekḥah Barishon — a silluq piyyut for the first day of Sukkot by Elazar haKalir • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
Elazar haKalir's qedushtah piyyut for the first day of Sukkot. . . .
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 6d
אָחִֽינוּ אַתָּה | Aḥinu Ata — a pizmon for a (male) Jew-by-choice’s first Aliyah to the Torah after Conversion, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social) opensiddur.org?p=63834 (Pizmonim for female and non-binary Jews-by-choice forthcoming!)
אָחִֽינוּ אַתָּה | Aḥinu Ata — a pizmon for a (male) Jew-by-choice's first Aliyah to the Torah after Conversion, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A pizmon for calling up a (male) Jew-by-choice for his first aliyah to the Torah after completing his conversion process. (Pizmonim for female and non-binary Jews-by-choice forthcoming!) To be recited...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 8d
ליקוטי תפילות א:קמה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot Ⅰ:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemyriv adapted from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman (ca. 1820s) opensiddur.org?p=26201
ליקוטי תפילות א:קמה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot Ⅰ:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemyriv adapted from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman (ca. 1820s) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסּ...
A prayer for Sukkot linking the theme of home building and receiving Torah with a warning not to eat animals and to extend ones compassion to all creatures. . . .
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 8d
Resources shared for Sukkot opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Sukkot • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the festival of Sukkot. Click here to contribute a prayer or a transcription or translation of a historic prayer. Looking for something else?...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 9d
Prayer Following the Heaton Park Synagogue Terror Attack on Yom Kippur 5786, by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UK & the Commonwealth, 4 October 2025) opensiddur.org?p=63816
Prayer Following the Heaton Park Synagogue Terror Attack on Yom Kippur 5786, by Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UK & the Commonwealth, 4 October 2025) • the Open Siddur Project ...
The Office of the Chief Rabbi’s prayer on the day following the terror attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur 5786 (2025). . . .
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 9d
Maḥzorim shared for Sukkot opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Maḥzorim for Sukkot • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of digital scans of maḥzorim (festival prayer books) for Sukkot (and other pilgrimage festivals/regalim) that have entered the Public Domain, and of maḥzorim under copyright that ha...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 12d
Resources shared for Yom Simḥat Kohen opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Yom Simḥat Kohen • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
In the communities of Morocco and Mumbai, the day after Yom Kippur was a holiday for priests known as Yom Simḥat Kohen. The origins of this practice can be found in Mishnah Yoma 7:4, where the high pr...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 13d
קדיש | Qaddish adaptation in Aramaic using feminine language — by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer opensiddur.org?p=63691
קדיש | Qaddish adaptation in Aramaic using feminine language — by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A text of the Qaddish using feminine language for God and for the rabbis and their students. Inspired by Rabbi Debi Shoua Haim of the Reform congregation Kol HaNeshama in Jerusalem, who, in a conversa...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 13d
Maḥzorim shared for Yom haKippurim opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of digital scans of maḥzorim (festival prayer books) for Yom ha-Kippurim that have entered the Public Domain, and of maḥzorim under copyright that have been contributed with Open Co...
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📖 מחזור ליום כיפור (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor l’Yom Kippur: The Form of Prayers for the Day of Atonement (Musaf, Minḥah, and Neïlah), in Hebrew and English according to the custom of the German & Polish Jews, compiled and translated by David Levi (1795, revised 1807/1852) opensiddur.org?p=63678
📖 מחזור ליום כיפור (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor l'Yom Kippur: The Form of Prayers for the Day of Atonement (Musaf, Minḥah, and Neïlah), in Hebrew and English according to the custom of the German & Polish Jews, ...
מחזור מחזור ליום כיפור The Form of the Additional and Afternoon Prayers for the Day of Atonement According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews (1852) is the "revised and corrected" edition of th...
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@[email protected] @opensiddur.bsky.social · 14d
אֵיךְ אֶשְׁאָל | Eikh esh’al (How can I ask?), a piyyut responding to the war by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org) opensiddur.org?p=63672
אֵיךְ אֶשְׁאָל | Eikh esh’al (How can I ask?), a piyyut responding to the war by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
Rabbi David Seidenberg writes, "This piyyut is a response to what I think of as the second war with Gaza since October 7, the one started on March 18, 2025, when Israel broke the ceasefire. At that po...
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מתי לא לבקש סליחה | When not to seek forgiveness, by Josh Rosenberg opensiddur.org?p=17554
מתי לא לבקש סליחה | When not to seek forgiveness, by Josh Rosenberg • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you've wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . .
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Evening Hymn (Blessed art Thou), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s) opensiddur.org?p=51118
Evening Hymn (Blessed art Thou), by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
"Evening Hymn (Blessed art Thou)" by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 94-95. It is not found in the US edition. . . .
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