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Additional Piyyutim for Use on the Yamim Noraim
Although Mahzor Lev Shalem contains many more piyyutim than was true of the previous RA mahzor, several rabbis, cantors, and lay leaders have requested three additional piyyutim.
Home Observances: Shabbat
One-page sheets containing Shabbat rituals and blessings for the home.
Al Ha-nissim for Yom Ha-atzmaut
Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat, Festivals, and Weekdays incorporated a new Al Ha-nissim prayer, which was modeled on the versions recited at Hanukkah and on Purim into the Amidah and Birkat Ha-mazon.
Prayer for Safe Return of Kidnapped Israelis
June 16, 2014
The Rabbinical Assembly released the following prayer (along with this statement), written by Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum and translated by Rabbi Peretz Rodman, for the safe return of the missing students.
God...
First Night: For Religious Freedom
December 16, 2014
By Rabbi Mark Greenspan, Oceanside Jewish Center, Oceanside, NYA Hanukkah Prayer: We are the Miracle!As we celebrate the festival of lightsAnd this season of miraclesWe are remindedThat the real miracle of HanukkahIs not the bit of oil that burned...
Second Night: For Living in a Free Society
December 17, 2014
By Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, CAWe stand in humble gratitude to be blessed to live in a free society, free in ways our ancestors couldn't have imagined. We acknowledge today, basking in the glow of...
Third Night: For Every Day Miracles
December 18, 2014
By Rabbi Stewart Vogel, Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills, CA Maoz Tsur, Our Rock and our Redeemer, at this time of year celebrating miracles, we pray that you help us to see the miracles of life. Just as you were with the Hasmonean rebels in...
Seventh Night: For the Land/State of Israel
December 22, 2014
By Rabbi Reuven Hammer, Jerusalem, Israel Tzur Yisrael V'Goalo – Rock and Redeemer of Israel – As we kindle the lights of Hanukkah – tonight reaching the sacred number seven – the flames in our hanukiyah merge with the seven that...
Fifth Night: God's Candle is the Human Soul (Proverbs 20:27)
December 20, 2014
By Rabbi Naomi Levy, Nashuva, Los Angeles, CA We are God's candleWe are made to shineNot just one time in our historyBut every day, even today.God knows the awesome potentialHidden inside us,The gift of Chanukah is the light We must bringTo this...
Fourth Night: For Jewish Community
December 19, 2014
By Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA Adonai, You are with me in the gentle flickering light of the Hannukah candles. I close my eyes and feel the presence of my grandparents, my great aunts and uncles, those no longer in...
Sixth Night: For Our Ancestors
December 21, 2014
By Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses, Romemu, New York, NY יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי הָרוּחת לְכָל בָּשָׂר . (Numbers 27:16) Adonai, the God of the Spirits of all Flesh: Our ancestors lit a flame in the dark ruins of...
Eighth Night: For the Jewish Light that Illuminates the World
December 23, 2014
By Rabbi Robert Scheinberg, United Synagogue of Hoboken, Hoboken, NJ During this year's observance of Hanukkah, we have lit so many candles.So many times we saw the flame jump from candle to candle.So many times we saw the Shamash share its flame so...
Eileh Ezkarah for Pittsburgh
September 26, 2019
Our colleague Jon Perlman wrote an Eileh Ezkarah for Pittsburgh (typeset by David Zvi Kalman). He collaborated with colleagues Tamar Elad-Applebaum and Martin Cohen, with assistance on nekudot from Tovi...