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Joined July 2009
Prayers for Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah) opensiddur.org/shared/prayer…
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בִּשְּׁבִיל דֵמוֹקרָטִיָה וְצֶדֶק | For democracy and justice: additions to the Amidah to add from now through US election day (and afterward), by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org) opensiddur.org/prayers/civic…
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Between the attacks on the @InternetArchive and on the @britishlibrary (still recovering), and machinations in the US (and elsewhere?) against physical libraries requiring police interventions, we are worried nefarious actors have an effective pattern for reshaping our noösphere
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The seven days of Sukkot start tomorrow. Sukkot is one of the three Jewish festivals on which the ancient Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. This beautiful folio-sized machzor (prayerbook) for Sukkot according to the Provençal rite of Avignon, was written by the scribe David Tsoref in 1721. 1/
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Sukkot begins at sunset on 16 October. Here a panel includes a depiction of a sukkah.  #Sukkot BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.295r @BL_HebrewMSS @BLAsia_Africa
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"You and I are Earth," 1661. The plate, discovered in a London sewer, is made of tin-glazed earthenware. It is now part of the Museum of London's collection. The plate dates back to the mid-17th century, a time when London was recovering from events like the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666, which devastated large parts of the city.
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Sukkot begins at sunset on 16 October: here's depicted a sukkah and a man holding a lulav branch and an etrog. #Sukkot BL Or 5024; Pisḳe R. Yeshayah Aḥaron (Halakhic decisions of Isaiah of Trani, the younger); 1374 CE; Italy N; f.70v @BLAsia_Africa @BL_HebrewMSS
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יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְּפָּנֶיךָ | Prayer for an End to Injustice on Earth, by Anonymous opensiddur.org/prayers/colle…
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