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Resources shared for 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Ém (30 Shəvat) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
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This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, יוֹם הָאֵם Yom ha-Ém (“Mothers’ Day”). The unofficial civic day was originally set on the yahrẓeit of Henrietta Szold (21 December 1860 – 13...
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February 17, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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💬 מְגִלַּת וָשִׁעְתּוֹן | Megillat Washiŋton — a Purim Sheni scroll for 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (1790, 2018) opensiddur.org?p=22602
💬 מְגִלַּת וָשִׁעְתּוֹן | Megillat Washiŋton — a Purim Sheni scroll for 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (1790, 2018) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
In many Jewish communities around the world, there have been traditional scrolls read for “local Purims,” celebrating redemptions for a specific community. Here in America, we don’t really have an equ...
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February 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
💬 מְגִלַּת וָשִׁעְתּוֹן | Megillat Washiŋton — a Purim Sheni scroll for 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (1790, 2018) opensiddur.org?p=22602
Resources shared for 🇺🇸 George Washington’s Birthday (3rd Monday of February) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, elegies, and other work composed for, or relevant to, the life of the first president of the United States of America, George Washington (1732-1799), whose birthday is c...
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February 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Resources shared for 🇺🇸 George Washington’s Birthday (3rd Monday of February) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Megillat Esther — a group reading by Naomi Klionsky and friends at Betzalel (Chicago, 14 March 2025) opensiddur.org?p=65952
Megillat Esther — a group reading by Naomi Klionsky and friends at Betzalel (Chicago, 14 March 2025) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
A group reading of Megilat Esther arranged by Naomi Klionsky at Bezalel (Chicago), Thursday, 13 March 2025. Each character in the megillah is read by a reader cast for that voice.
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February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Megillat Esther — a group reading by Naomi Klionsky and friends at Betzalel (Chicago, 14 March 2025) opensiddur.org?p=65952
הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | the Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther, from Divrei haYamim l’Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) translated by Rabbi Moses Gaster opensiddur.org?p=30495 (recently vocalized and cantillated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | the Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther, from Divrei haYamim l'Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
The dream and prayer of Mordekhai, and the prayer of Esther, as copied in the medieval pseudo-historical Chronicle of Yeraḥmiel.
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February 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
הַתְּפִלּוֹת שֶׁל מָרְדְּכַי וְאֶסְתֵּר | the Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther, from Divrei haYamim l’Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.) translated by Rabbi Moses Gaster opensiddur.org?p=30495 (recently vocalized and cantillated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
Resources shared for 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday (February 12th) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, elegies, and other works composed in honor of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), whose birthday on the 12th of February is celebrated as a civic day in the United St...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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קְדוּשְׁתָּאוֹת לְשַׁבָּת שְׁקָלִים | Qedushtaot for Shabbat Sheqalim, by Elazar ben Qallir opensiddur.org?p=65919 (transcribed and translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
קְדוּשְׁתָּאוֹת לְשַׁבָּת שְׁקָלִים | Qedushtaot for Shabbat Sheqalim, by Elazar ben Qallir • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
The complete qedushta cycle (colloquially called "yotzros," although it is not technically yotzrot but rather qerovot) for Shabbat Sheqalim by Qallir, including all the catenae of verses and repeated ...
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February 10, 2026 at 8:55 AM
קְדוּשְׁתָּאוֹת לְשַׁבָּת שְׁקָלִים | Qedushtaot for Shabbat Sheqalim, by Elazar ben Qallir opensiddur.org?p=65919 (transcribed and translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
📖 מְגִלַּת ר׳ מֵאִיר שַ״ץ (מעשה האקדמות) | The Fantastic Tale of Rabbi Meïr, shaliaḥ tsibbur — a legendary frame tale for the Aqdamut read on Shavuot (Fürth 1694) opensiddur.org?p=65861
📖 מְגִלַּת ר׳ מֵאִיר שַ״ץ (מעשה האקדמות) | The Fantastic Tale of Rabbi Meïr, shaliaḥ tsibbur — a legendary frame tale for the Aqdamut read on Shavuot (Fürth 1694) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶק...
This is a transcription of the Megillat Aqdamut (also known by other names) in its first printing in Yiddish, in Fürth 1694. The transcription is based on an earlier transcription of the Fürth 1694 pr...
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February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
📖 מְגִלַּת ר׳ מֵאִיר שַ״ץ (מעשה האקדמות) | The Fantastic Tale of Rabbi Meïr, shaliaḥ tsibbur — a legendary frame tale for the Aqdamut read on Shavuot (Fürth 1694) opensiddur.org?p=65861
שִׁירַת מִרְיָם | The Song of Miriam — a reconstruction based on the fragmentary pseudobiblical composition found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q365) opensiddur.org?p=65814
שִׁירַת מִרְיָם | The Song of Miriam — a reconstruction based on the fragmentary pseudobiblical composition found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q365) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפ...
In 4Q365, from the Rewritten Torah genre texts found at Qumran, Miriam's song is substantially longer than the one half of a verse that she is given in the Masoretic text! Unfortunately, the 4Q365 Son...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
שִׁירַת מִרְיָם | The Song of Miriam — a reconstruction based on the fragmentary pseudobiblical composition found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q365) opensiddur.org?p=65814
Resources shared for 🇺🇸 Four Chaplains Day (February 3rd) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
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This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, Four Chaplains Day in the United States. In 1998, February 3 was established by senate resolution 169-98 as “Four Chaplains Day” to commemor...
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February 3, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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A Prayer for Game Day [Super Bowl ⅬⅩ], by Rabbi Menachem Creditor opensiddur.org?p=65806
A Prayer for Game Day [Super Bowl ⅬⅩ], by Rabbi Menachem Creditor • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
"A Prayer for Game Day" was offered by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared through the Open Siddur Project via our discussion group on Facebook, 3 February 2026, in the week before "Super Bowl ⅬⅩ" on 8...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:44 AM
A Prayer for Game Day [Super Bowl ⅬⅩ], by Rabbi Menachem Creditor opensiddur.org?p=65806
Now available in our Hebrew Font Pack: Ilan Elovitz's rendering of the Romm publishing house's "Vilna" typeface opensiddur.org/help/fonts/ A persistent problem in many Hebrew fonts is implementing diacritic positioning logic. If you know how to migrate such logic btw/ fonts, please reach out
February 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Now available in our Hebrew Font Pack: Ilan Elovitz's rendering of the Romm publishing house's "Vilna" typeface opensiddur.org/help/fonts/ A persistent problem in many Hebrew fonts is implementing diacritic positioning logic. If you know how to migrate such logic btw/ fonts, please reach out
Resources shared for 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for יוֹם הַנְּטִיעוֹת Yom haNətiōt (Day of Planting), a civic day in the State of Israel and the territories under its jurisdiction in Erets Yisr...
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February 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Resources shared for 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Resources shared for Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), the New Year's Day of Trees in the rabbinic Jewish calendar opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of special readings for, or relevant to, the Jewish New Year’s Day for Trees, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot, popularly referred to by the day it falls on the Jewish religious calendar, ט״...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Resources shared for Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), the New Year's Day of Trees in the rabbinic Jewish calendar opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
A Prayer for Difficult People, by Rabbi Mark Sameth opensiddur.org?p=65785
A Prayer for Difficult People, by Rabbi Mark Sameth • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
"A Prayer for Difficult People (in two parts)" was first offered on Yom Kippur 5772 (2011) at Pleasantville Community Synagogue (Pleasantville, NY), and has since appeared in congregational newsletter...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:16 PM
A Prayer for Difficult People, by Rabbi Mark Sameth opensiddur.org?p=65785
Updating our resource page for Emma Lazarus's prayer-poem, The New Collossus, to include its Hebrew translation by Dr. Karen Alkalay-Gut opensiddur.org?p=20604 (Links to recordings of translations in 15 other languages including Persian, Igbo, Ukrainian, Arabic, Bengali, and Jamaican Patwa.)
The New Collosus | הַקּוֹלוֹסוּס הֶחָדָשׁ | דער נײער קאָלאסוס — a paean to the Shekhinah/"Mother of Exiles" by Emma Lazarus (1883) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is the sonnet, "The New Collosus" (1883) by Emma Lazarus. Lazarus famously penned her sonnet in response to the waves of Russian-Jewish refugees seeking refuge in the Unites States of America as ...
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January 30, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Updating our resource page for Emma Lazarus's prayer-poem, The New Collossus, to include its Hebrew translation by Dr. Karen Alkalay-Gut opensiddur.org?p=20604 (Links to recordings of translations in 15 other languages including Persian, Igbo, Ukrainian, Arabic, Bengali, and Jamaican Patwa.)
מַֽהֲרוּ כׇּל־שָׁרִים | Maharu Kol Sharim — a pizmon on the parting of the Sea of Reeds with stanzas added in the Shirei Yisrael b-Erets ha-Qedem opensiddur.org?p=65743 (transcribed and translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
מַֽהֲרוּ כׇּל־שָׁרִים | Maharu Kol Sharim — a pizmon on the parting of the Sea of Reeds with stanzas added in the Shirei Yisrael b-Erets ha-Qedem • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפ...
This pizmon, signed with the name Moshe but of otherwise unclear attribution, is recited in the Sephardic communities of Rhodes and Istanbul (and nowadays in Seattle) before the open ark on Shabbat Sh...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:55 AM
מַֽהֲרוּ כׇּל־שָׁרִים | Maharu Kol Sharim — a pizmon on the parting of the Sea of Reeds with stanzas added in the Shirei Yisrael b-Erets ha-Qedem opensiddur.org?p=65743 (transcribed and translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
אָשִֽׁירָה כְּשִׁירַת מֹשֶׁה | Ashira k-Shirat Moshe (Let me sing like the song of Moses) opensiddur.org?p=65763 (translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
אָשִֽׁירָה כְּשִׁירַת מֹשֶׁה | Ashira k-Shirat Moshe (Let me sing like the song of Moses) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
Ashira k-Shirat Moshe is a brief piyyut of uncertain origin, recited in Moroccan Jewish practice as an introduction to the Song of the Sea at the end of Zemirot on Shabbat Shirah and the seventh day o...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:54 AM
אָשִֽׁירָה כְּשִׁירַת מֹשֶׁה | Ashira k-Shirat Moshe (Let me sing like the song of Moses) opensiddur.org?p=65763 (translated by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
יוֹם לְיַבָּשָׁה | Yom le-Yabashah (The Day On Which to Dry Land) — a geulah piyyut for the 7th day of Pesaḥ and Shabbat Shirah by Yehudah haLevi (early 12th c.) opensiddur.org?p=65735 (translation and rhyming translation by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
יוֹם לְיַבָּשָׁה | Yom le-Yabashah (The Day On Which to Dry Land) — a geulah piyyut for the 7th day of Pesaḥ and Shabbat Shirah by Yehudah haLevi (early 12th c.) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְ...
Originally written by Yehuda haLevi for the seventh day of Pesaḥ, Yom le-Yabasha — a celebration of the crossing of the red sea and the establishment of the covenant as signified by the circumcision a...
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January 29, 2026 at 7:10 AM
יוֹם לְיַבָּשָׁה | Yom le-Yabashah (The Day On Which to Dry Land) — a geulah piyyut for the 7th day of Pesaḥ and Shabbat Shirah by Yehudah haLevi (early 12th c.) opensiddur.org?p=65735 (translation and rhyming translation by @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social)
Resources shared for 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day on 27 January, the day of ...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Resources shared for 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) opensiddur.org/index.php?ca...
יש מקומות שנהגו לבקש רחמים על האסור בבית האסורים כדרך הזה | A piyyut and mi sheberakh for captives, in a late medieval manuscript from France in the Braginsky Collection opensiddur.org?p=65711
יש מקומות שנהגו לבקש רחמים על האסור בבית האסורים כדרך הזה | A piyyut and mi sheberakh for captives, in a late medieval manuscript from France in the Braginsky Collection • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פּ...
This prayer for captives, containing a piyyut followed by meaningful verses and a mi sheberakh, was transcribed by Dr. Yehoshua Granat (יהושע גרנט) from an unidentified manuscript produced in late med...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
יש מקומות שנהגו לבקש רחמים על האסור בבית האסורים כדרך הזה | A piyyut and mi sheberakh for captives, in a late medieval manuscript from France in the Braginsky Collection opensiddur.org?p=65711
שִׁיר הַכָּבוֹד (אַנְעִים זְמִירוֹת) | Shir haKavod (An’im Zemirot), attributed to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid of Regensburg (ca. 12th c.); translation by Israel Zangwill (1904) opensiddur.org?p=65702
שִׁיר הַכָּבוֹד (אַנְעִים זְמִירוֹת) | Shir haKavod (An’im Zemirot), attributed to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid of Regensburg (ca. 12th c.); translation by Israel Zangwill (1904) • the Open Siddur Project ...
This is the Shir haKavod ("Hymn of Glory," also known by its incipit "An'im Zemirot") attributed to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid of Regensburg, included at the conclusion of the Shir haYiḥud (first attested...
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January 27, 2026 at 5:42 AM
שִׁיר הַכָּבוֹד (אַנְעִים זְמִירוֹת) | Shir haKavod (An’im Zemirot), attributed to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid of Regensburg (ca. 12th c.); translation by Israel Zangwill (1904) opensiddur.org?p=65702
The Hebrew’s Friday Night (After Burns), by Israel Zangwill (1903) opensiddur.org?p=65650
The Hebrew's Friday Night (After Burns), by Israel Zangwill (1903) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
"The Hebrew's Friday Night (After Burns)" was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), pp. 114-116. . . .
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January 23, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The Hebrew’s Friday Night (After Burns), by Israel Zangwill (1903) opensiddur.org?p=65650
Sincerity, a prayer for authenticity and genuine honesty (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65645
Sincerity, a prayer for authenticity and genuine honesty (CCAR 1923) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
"Sincerity" is the seventh prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 28-30. . . .
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January 23, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Sincerity, a prayer for authenticity and genuine honesty (CCAR 1923) opensiddur.org?p=65645
אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים במזרח) | जो जगताचा स्वामि | Adōn Olam in Marathi translation by Jospeh Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1889) opensiddur.org?p=65626
אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים במזרח) | जो जगताचा स्वामि | Adōn Olam in Marathi translation by Jospeh Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1889) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ
The piyyut, "Adon Olam" became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:56 PM
אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים במזרח) | जो जगताचा स्वामि | Adōn Olam in Marathi translation by Jospeh Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1889) opensiddur.org?p=65626