{"id":1430,"date":"2018-03-07T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/03\/07\/learn-candle-lighting-blessing-prayer-eoke-2-3-2-2"},"modified":"2018-10-07T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T07:43:27","slug":"learn-candle-lighting-blessing-prayer-eoke-2-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/03\/07\/learn-candle-lighting-blessing-prayer-eoke-2-3-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructionist Blessings Before &amp; After Torah Reading with Feminine God-Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This<a href=\"https:\/\/opensiddur.org\/prayers-for\/torah-reading-service\/aliyah-blessing-for-the-torah-reading-at-mishkan-shalom-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> post<\/a> presents the Hebrew, English and transliterated texts of a the blessings recited\u00a0before and after the Torah reading when called up for an aliyah, using feminine God-language and omitting reference to the Jews as the &#8216;Chosen People.&#8217; The blessings\u00a0were formulated by\u00a0Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Reb Arthur Waskow, and others in the early years of the Reconstructionist <a href=\"https:\/\/mishkan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congregation Mishkan Shalom<\/a> in Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/em><em>This resource was shared on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opensiddur.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Open Siddur Project,\u00a0<\/a>which\u00a0aims to\u00a0liberate the creative content of Jewish spiritual practice as a commonly held resource for adoption, adaptation, and redistribution<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/08\/opensiddur.org-\u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05d5\u05ea-\u05e2\u05dc-\u05e7\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05ea-\u05d4\u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05d4-Blessing-over-the-Torah-Reading-at-Mishkan-Shalom-Philadelphia-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">opensiddur.org-\u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05dc \u05e7\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05d4 Blessing over the Torah Reading at Mishkan Shalom Philadelphia (1)<br\/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05dc \u05e7\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05d4 | Blessing over the Torah Reading, at Mishkan Shalom, Philadelphia\u201d\u00a0is shared by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi with a\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license nofollow noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike\u00a04.0\u00a0International<\/a>\u00a0copyleft license.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents the Hebrew, English and transliterated texts of a the blessings recited\u00a0before and after the Torah reading when called up for an aliyah, using feminine God-language and omitting reference to the Jews as the &#8216;Chosen People.&#8217; The blessings\u00a0were formulated by\u00a0Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Reb Arthur Waskow, and others in the early years of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/4954\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}