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שִׁיר לְצִיּוֹן | Shir l’Tsiyōn — a hymn celebrating the reïfication of the Balfour Declaration at the culmination of the San Remo conference on 11 May 1920 by Rabbi Jacob Gerstein opensiddur.org?p=65501
שִׁיר לְצִיּוֹן | Shir l'Tsiyōn — a hymn celebrating the reïfication of the Balfour Declaration at the culmination of the San Remo conference on 11 May 1920 by Rabbi Jacob Gerstein • the Open Siddur P...
In this song written in Yiddish, Rabbi Gerstein celebrates the day of 11 May 1920, the date upon which determined the fate of the Ottoman Empire after World War Ⅰ was concluded and the Balfour Declara...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
שִׁיר לְצִיּוֹן | Shir l’Tsiyōn — a hymn celebrating the reïfication of the Balfour Declaration at the culmination of the San Remo conference on 11 May 1920 by Rabbi Jacob Gerstein opensiddur.org?p=65501
מי שברך לעוסקות ועוסקים במלאכת תיעוד הפגיעות המיניות ומעשי הקינוסייד ב 7.10 | Mi sheBerakh (a protective prayer) for those documenting the atrocities of 7 October 2023 opensiddur.org?p=65492
מי שברך לעוסקות ועוסקים במלאכת תיעוד הפגיעות המיניות ומעשי הקינוסייד ב 7.10 | Mi sheBerakh (a protective prayer) for those documenting the atrocities of 7 October 2023 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּר...
This mi sheberakh prayer was offered by Rabbi Gila Caine for those reviewing and compiling the documentary evidence of the depraved violence committed by HAMA"S and its allies on 7 October 2023. . . .
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January 14, 2026 at 5:19 AM
מי שברך לעוסקות ועוסקים במלאכת תיעוד הפגיעות המיניות ומעשי הקינוסייד ב 7.10 | Mi sheBerakh (a protective prayer) for those documenting the atrocities of 7 October 2023 opensiddur.org?p=65492
Yotser for Shabbat Rosh Ḥodesh Ḥanukkah from nusaḥ Candia (Crete), translated by Yitzchak Dickman opensiddur.org?p=65459
Yotser for Shabbat Rosh Ḥodesh Ḥanukkah from nusaḥ Candia (Crete), translated by Yitzchak Dickman • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is a גוף יוצר (guf yotser) piyut from Nusaḥ Candia (Crete) for Shabbat Rosh Ḥodesh Ḥanukkah. The author of the piyut is unknown. It is presented here on the basis of the edition published by Dr. ...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Yotser for Shabbat Rosh Ḥodesh Ḥanukkah from nusaḥ Candia (Crete), translated by Yitzchak Dickman opensiddur.org?p=65459
Starting Anew, a paraliturgical “yotser or” (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65418
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"Starting Anew" is found early on in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 15-18. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a r...
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January 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Starting Anew, a paraliturgical “yotser or” (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65418
שֹׁפֵט כׇּל הָאָֽרֶץ | Shofet kol ha-Arets (“Thou Judge of all the earth”), a piyyut by Shlomo ben Abun (ca. late 12th c.) in rhyming English translation by Nina Salaman (1904) opensiddur.org?p=65408
שֹׁפֵט כׇּל הָאָֽרֶץ | Shofet kol ha-Arets ("Thou Judge of all the earth"), a piyyut by Shlomo ben Abun (ca. late 12th c.) in rhyming English translation by Nina Salaman (1904) • the Open Siddur Proje...
This is the piyyut for Yom Kippur known by its incipit שופט כל הארץ "Shofet kol ha-Arets" ("Thou Judge of all the earth") by the late 12th century paytan, Shlomo ben Abun of France, as adapted in the ...
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January 11, 2026 at 7:31 PM
שֹׁפֵט כׇּל הָאָֽרֶץ | Shofet kol ha-Arets (“Thou Judge of all the earth”), a piyyut by Shlomo ben Abun (ca. late 12th c.) in rhyming English translation by Nina Salaman (1904) opensiddur.org?p=65408
Morning Prayer [for creative joy] (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65402
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This "Morning Prayer" is found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 12-14. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a reso...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Morning Prayer [for creative joy] (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65402
Meditation (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65391
Meditation (CCAR 1923) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This "Meditation" is the opening prayer of ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 9-11. Unfortunately, we do not yet know o...
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January 11, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Meditation (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65391
Here's to all of our righteous actions inspired by growing awareness and regular reminders of how the world actually is, to know without distortion and self-delusion a vision of fairness, compassion, and justice to pray and work toward for less needless suffering in the human and non-human world
January 9, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Here's to all of our righteous actions inspired by growing awareness and regular reminders of how the world actually is, to know without distortion and self-delusion a vision of fairness, compassion, and justice to pray and work toward for less needless suffering in the human and non-human world
A "lev nishbar" (לב נשבר) -- as understood from Psalms 51:19 -- is considered a prerequisite and goal for any earnest offering, and can be translated as either a "broken heart" or a "shattered compalency."
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A "lev nishbar" (לב נשבר) -- as understood from Psalms 51:19 -- is considered a prerequisite and goal for any earnest offering, and can be translated as either a "broken heart" or a "shattered compalency."
Supplemental stanzas to the piyyut “Shalom Aleikhem,” by Miriam Rubin opensiddur.org?p=65385
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These supplemental stanzas to the 1623 piyyut, "Shalom Aleikhem," by Miriam Rubin, were offered on 9 January 2026. . . .
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January 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Supplemental stanzas to the piyyut “Shalom Aleikhem,” by Miriam Rubin opensiddur.org?p=65385
Sabbath Blessing, a prayer by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (Reformed Society of Israel ca. 1826) opensiddur.org?p=39706 (The earliest teḥinah in vernacular English known to have been composed by a Jewish woman)
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"Sabbath Blessing" by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (ca.1800-1876), is included in the so-called Isaac Harby Prayerbook (1974) also known as the Cohn Lithograph, a handwritten prayerbook attesting to t...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Sabbath Blessing, a prayer by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (Reformed Society of Israel ca. 1826) opensiddur.org?p=39706 (The earliest teḥinah in vernacular English known to have been composed by a Jewish woman)
A prayer for every day in the Gregorian year 2026, by Miriam Rubin opensiddur.org?p=65374
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A prayer for every day in the Gregorian year 2026, by Miriam Rubin, was offered in the first week of January, on 5 Jan 2026. . . .
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January 9, 2026 at 8:52 AM
A prayer for every day in the Gregorian year 2026, by Miriam Rubin opensiddur.org?p=65374
ברכה ותהלה | Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion, a collection of teḥinot in vernacular English published by CCAR in 1923 opensiddur.org?p=65368
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ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) is a collection of fifty teḥinot and devotional readings in vernacular English. The work ...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
ברכה ותהלה | Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion, a collection of teḥinot in vernacular English published by CCAR in 1923 opensiddur.org?p=65368
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it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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January 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין־כִּפּוּר לְפוּרִים | HaMavdil bein Kippur l-Furim — a Purim parody of the Havdalah and Yom Kippur piyyuṭ “HaMavdil” (ca. 16th c.) opensiddur.org?p=65355 (transcribed, vocalized, and translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין־כִּפּוּר לְפוּרִים | HaMavdil bein Kippur l-Furim — a Purim parody of the Havdalah and Yom Kippur piyyuṭ "HaMavdil" (ca. 16th c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר ...
By a 16th century paytan named Yitsḥaq, this is a Purim parody of the Havdalah (and Yom Kippur) piyyuṭ "HaMavdil," found in Israel Davidson's classic work Parody in Jewish Literature (1907), pp. 36-37...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:58 AM
הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין־כִּפּוּר לְפוּרִים | HaMavdil bein Kippur l-Furim — a Purim parody of the Havdalah and Yom Kippur piyyuṭ “HaMavdil” (ca. 16th c.) opensiddur.org?p=65355 (transcribed, vocalized, and translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
Prayers offered by Grace Aguilar, ז״ל (1816-1847) opensiddur.org/index.php?us...
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Prayers and other works by Grace Aguilar shared through the Open Siddur Project.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Prayers offered by Grace Aguilar, ז״ל (1816-1847) opensiddur.org/index.php?us...
Hebrew vocalization, cantillation, annotation, and English translation by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Hebrew vocalization, cantillation, annotation, and English translation by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
💬 מְגִלַּת הַפָּאװִדְלָא | Megilat Povidl (Shir haMa’alot l’David) — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 10th of Adar liberation of David Brandeis (Powidlpurim) in 1731 opensiddur.org?p=65327
💬 מְגִלַּת הַפָּאװִדְלָא | Megilat Povidl (Shir haMa'alot l'David) — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 10th of Adar liberation of David Brandeis (Powidlpurim) in 1731 • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְ...
The megillah for Plum-Jam Purim or Powidlpurim, a family Purim celebrated by the Brandeis family of Bumsla, Bohemia (Czech: Mladá Boleslav; German: Jungbunzlau) on 10 Adar to commemorate David Brandei...
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January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
💬 מְגִלַּת הַפָּאװִדְלָא | Megilat Povidl (Shir haMa’alot l’David) — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 10th of Adar liberation of David Brandeis (Powidlpurim) in 1731 opensiddur.org?p=65327
This early version shows some diacritic positioning errors, which is expected. We really need more open-source oriented Hebrew font hobbyists capable of teaching one-on-one, in online workshops, or through documentation, how to add and/or correct the diacritic positioning logic for Hebew fonts
January 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
This early version shows some diacritic positioning errors, which is expected. We really need more open-source oriented Hebrew font hobbyists capable of teaching one-on-one, in online workshops, or through documentation, how to add and/or correct the diacritic positioning logic for Hebew fonts
Nice implementation of the Romm Publishing House's Vilna typeface by Ross Ilan Elovitz, soon to be shared in our list of open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License
January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Nice implementation of the Romm Publishing House's Vilna typeface by Ross Ilan Elovitz, soon to be shared in our list of open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License
It's worse than that. These are manual posts (not autoposts) and Bluesky is converting apostrophes and other text into HTML entities. The text renders without any sign of a problem in the "New Post" form, but once it's posted to Bluesky, the HTML entity code shows
January 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM
It's worse than that. These are manual posts (not autoposts) and Bluesky is converting apostrophes and other text into HTML entities. The text renders without any sign of a problem in the "New Post" form, but once it's posted to Bluesky, the HTML entity code shows
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January 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
💬 מְגִלַּת לִינְקוֹן | Megillat Lincoln — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 13th of Tevet commemorating the revocation of Ulysses S. Grant’s General Order № 11 (1862, 2020) opensiddur.org?p=31723
💬 מְגִלַּת לִינְקוֹן | Megillat Lincoln — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 13th of Tevet commemorating the revocation of Ulysses S. Grant's General Order № 11 (1862, 2020) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּר...
A megillah for a Purim Sheni commemorating a day of salvation the Jewry of the United States during the Civil War. . . .
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January 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
💬 מְגִלַּת לִינְקוֹן | Megillat Lincoln — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 13th of Tevet commemorating the revocation of Ulysses S. Grant’s General Order № 11 (1862, 2020) opensiddur.org?p=31723
What I Believe | Wie ich die Welt sehe (How I see the World), an essay by Albert Einstein (in English and German, 1930/1934) opensiddur.org?p=46424
What I Believe | Wie ich die Welt sehe (How I see the World), an essay by Albert Einstein (in English and German, 1930/1934) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is Albert Einstein's essay in English, "What I Believe" as published in Forum and Century 84 (October 1930), no. 4, 193–194, set next to his essay in German, "Wie ich die Welt sehe" (How I see th...
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January 1, 2026 at 6:20 AM
What I Believe | Wie ich die Welt sehe (How I see the World), an essay by Albert Einstein (in English and German, 1930/1934) opensiddur.org?p=46424