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FREE SHIPPING! Shabbat Evening Zine Siddur

June 5, 2012 by Patrick Beaulier

The newest multimedia project from PunkTorah, The Shabbat Evening Zine is a zine (short for “magazine”) prayerbook featuring the Friday night Shabbat service in Hebrew, English and transliteration, as well as a Havdalah service and several short essays on the meaning of Shabbat.

If 90’s riot grrl feminists, punks, indie rockers and subversive crafters had a prayerbook, this would be it!

Preview the book by clicking here (some pictures/text removed).

This siddur is only $9.99, now with FREE SHIPPING. You can also order an e-reader version of the zine or a print-and-bind-it-yourself version for only $5.99. All proceeds go to PunkTorah’s general fund.

There are only 30 in stock, so don’t wait! Need more than one copy? Order more than one and we will reimburse your shipping.

PRINTED BOOK: Click here to order

E-READER VERSION: Click here to order

PRINT IT YOURSELF VERSION: Click here to order

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Submit Your Entries to the NEW OneShul Siddur

April 11, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

Every year, the PunkTorah/OneShul community comes together to write the Community Siddur. And we need your help to make the next siddur bigger and better!

Below are just a few ideas to get you started. You can submit the original Orthodox Hebrew prayer (transliterated), your own prayer in any language, a poem, a meditation…whatever your heart moves you to. Don’t be afraid to be original (blessing of the pets? blessing for checking your email?) and feel free to submit as many pieces as you would like. Just email questions@punktorah.org to sign up. Hurry! People have already started signing up.

Morning Brachot – Gabe M.

Morning Service

  • Meditations Before Prayer
  • Morning Blessings
  • P’sukei d’Zimra (with Psalms)
  • Shema and it’s blessings and related passages
  • Shemoneh Esrei
  • Hallel
  • Torah reading (Mondays, Thursdays, Shabbat and holidays)
  • Aleinu, Ashrei (Psalm 145), and other closing prayers, Psalms and hymns

Additional Service (Musaf)

  • Shemoneh Esrei
  • Aleinu and other closing prayers, Psalms and hymns

Afternoon Mincha Service

  • Ashrei (Psalm 145)
  • Shemoneh Esrei
  • Aleinu

Evening Service (Ma’ariv)

  • Shema and it’s blessings and related passages
  • Shemoneh Esrei
  • Aleinu
  • Bedtime Shema

Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Evening Service

  • Shabbat Candle Lighting
  • Psalm 95, 86, 97, 98, 99
  • Lecha Dodi
  • Greeting Mourners
  • Psalm 92
  • Psalm 93
  • Mourners Kaddish
  • Rabbis Kaddish
  • Barchu
  • Maariv Aravim
  • Mi Shebeirach
  • Ahavat Olam
  • Shema
  • Hashkiveinu
  • V’shamru
  • Amidah
  • Yidal
  • Adon Olam

Shabbat Home

  • Shalom Aleichem
  • Kiddush – Patrick Aleph
  • Woman of valor/Man of valor/Person of valor
  • Blessing of children – Shaun Sarvis
  • Mnucha v’simcha
  • Birkat Hamazon – NewKosher.org

Shabbat Morning Service

  • Morning Meditations
  • Psalm 30
  • 1 Chronicles 16:8-38
  • Psalm 19
  • Psalm 33
  • Psalm 34
  • Psalm 91
  • Psalm 98, 121, 122, 123, 124
  • Psalm 135, 136
  • Psalm 92
  • Psalm 93
  • Ashrei and Psalm 145
  • Psalm 146, 147, 148, 149, 150,
  • 1 Chronices 29:10-13
  • Nehemiah  9:6-11
  • Exodus 14:30-1
  • The Song at the Sea (Exodus 15:1-18)
  • Nishmat
  • Sho-chein Ad
  • Yish Tabach
  • Shacharit Shema
  • Shacharit Amida
  • Shacharit Closing
  • Shabbat Musaf
  • Havdalah

Holidays and Simcha

  • Rosh HaShanah
  • Yom Kippur
  • Simchat Torah
  • Hanukkah
  • Tu B’Shevat
  • Purim
  • Passover
  • Counting The Omer
  • Lag B’Omer
  • Shavuot
  • Sukkot
  • Tish B’Av
  • Tu B’Av
  • Kapparot

Additional Brachot

  • Ritual Hand Washing
  • Mikvah
  • Mezuzah
  • Shehecheyanu – Patrick Aleph
  • On hearing good news
  • On hearing bad news
  • For witnessing phenomena
  • Separating challah
  • Immersing utensils in mikvah
  • Travelers prayer –Shaun Sarvis
  • Prayer for rain/nature
  • Consecration of a house

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Who Needs A Siddur Anyways?

October 7, 2010 by Patrick Beaulier

A prayerbook is an interesting thing. It begs the question, how well can someone else’s words describe your inner feelings, your deepest needs and desires? Why do we even need a siddur anyways? Isn’t the point of prayer to talk to G-d, or whatever we call that awe-some power that is larger than ourselves?

If we allow ourselves to look at things from a different point of view we can see how we can benefit from a written liturgy.

While we have invited the members of our community to contribute new interpretations of standard liturgical pieces, new understandings of traditional blessings and prayers, we have attempted to maintain a particular sense of order in the creation of the daily service. The reason for this is because the daily services are crafted for a very specific purpose, to create a distinct experience that is a stark reflection of our spiritual journey throughout the day. The services are, in fact, both the map and the territory of a journey into the deepest realms of the spirit.

The order of the service was crafted by the sages to guide us through an experience that reflects the importance of communicating with the Source of Life. Taking us by the hand, the order of service walks with us, laying out a clear pathway to elevate our souls, to describe the madness and miracles we see everyday, and to give us words when our own fail us.

Starting at the beginning, the opening psalms energize us, they prime the pump of spirit, and help to fuel the engines of prayer that we need to journey deeper into the presence of the Holy One. Each successive prayer gives us new insight into our experience and draws us closer to the heights, symbolically ushering us through the sefirot, guiding our minds and hearts. We reach the apex of our journey, our approach to the Throne of Glory in the Shema and the Amida, the Standing Prayer. We have worked our way upwards the highest heights, reflecting on the oneness of the Universe and the relationship of a people and their essence, the liturgy giving us the words to express the inexpressible inside of us. The Aleinu gives us time to reflect and express our gratitude as we slowly descend in a meditative state, slowly backing down the ladder, en-wrapped in the Shekhinah, enmeshed in the ultimate and miraculous Oneness of Reality. Reciting psalms allow us to de-compress and release excessive spiritual energy, and to rest in reflection of the transformative nature of the prayers.

Does this mean we have to pray exactly as the Sages have written? No. We keep the map, but we need to discover the territory ourselves. This is why we have a community siddur. No one person can express what is in another person’s heart, but they can sometimes come close. If you feel drawn to some prayers in this or any other siddur, use them! If you feel that you need to use your own words, use them! I encourage you to write your own! But do not discard the resources from those who have been there before you.

Does this mean that we are always going to have a “magical” prayer experience? No, absolutely not. The order of the service is there to make sure we make the journey; it does the heavy lifting for us. All we have to do is to commit to the going. It is the doing that makes the difference. Judaism is a spiritual practice and not a “creedal” religion; it’s not about what you believe, it’s about what you do. Take a step, keep moving forward. Allow yourself to be changed, and you can change the world.

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Day-In-The-Life: Siddur + Prayer

September 22, 2009 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSV4uWkpB04

What is a siddur, do we even need one? PunkTorah invites you to have a Jewish Daily Life, in your own way!

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