A homemade Tefillah Chagigit for Yom HaAtzmaut
The synagogue where I went last night to observe first Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day), then Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day, which always takes place the day after Yom HaZikaron) had an interesting Tefillah Chagigit (Festive Prayer) Maariv (Evening) Service. None of the homemade pamphlet showing the added prayers was translated, and it was a bit confusing for Ms. Late-Bloomer, but, from what I could figure out, some of the chagigit part of the tefillah was taken from the Hallel psalms and a bit from the liturgy of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), of all things (the Sh'ma, HaShem Hu haElokim three times, then a t'kiah g'dolah blast on a shofar). One prayer, in a rather creative move, seemed to consist of some of the verses of L'cha Dodi (a Sabbath evening hymn) combined with a chorus consisting of a verse from Hallel, "Ze hayom assah HaShem, nagilah v'nism'chah vo, This is the day that HaShem has made, Let us rejoice and be glad on it" (Psalm 118, verse 24). It was a most interesting service. And the mangal afterward didn't hurt, either. :)
posted by Shira Salamone at 12:40 PM
14 Comments:
It's taken from the Koren siddur and I suspect it's supposed to have allusions to national redemption (reishit tzmicht geulateinu) whatever that means to you.
For real? Thanks for the information, RivkaYael. I'll have to check my Koren Sacks siddur (prayer book) when I get home.
The idea of Medinat Yisrael/The State of Israel being "Reishit tzmichut geulateinu" (the beginning of the dawning of our redemption?) is a bit of a problem for me, since I don't believe in a literal mashiach/messiah. But it certainly is a miracle that Medinat Yisrael exists--I don't think that one even has to believe in a supernatural god to believe that.
Oops--you said Koren, not Koren Sacks. I can't find those prayers, so I suspect that they're in the (no-Sacks-translation) Hebrew-only Israeli Koren Siddur. That would account for the print-outs having had no English translation.
That should have said "Reishit tzmichat geulateinu (the first flowering of our redemption, according to Sacks's translation). I'll get the spelling right, eventually.
It is not from the Koren siddur. The Koren Siddur merely reflects the tefillot for Yom ha'Atzma'ut that the Chief Rabbinate in Israel adopted. And it should be in the Koren Sacks siddur as well.
True about the chief rabbinate. There are several variants of it though and the one in the koren is one of them (which standardizes it in the populace to some extent). I wonder if it differs slightly in different Israeli siddurim (haven't looked at the Rinat).
And then there are variations in how american shuls adapt yom haatzmaut shacharit as well.
Ah, so it's from the Chief Rabbinate. Thanks for the information, JDub. Thus far, I haven't been able to find the tefillot for Yom ha'Atzma'ut (prayers for Independence Day) in the Koren Sacks siddur, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
RivkaYael, I followed the Koren Sacks sidder for Shacharit (Morning Service) on Yom HaAtzmaut, adding, as that prayer book suggests, (a good chunk of) the P'sukei D'Zimrah of Hoshanah Rabbah plus a full Hallel with b'rachot.
Drisha does that too. I've seen weekday pseukei d'zimra with full hallel with bracha in another orthodox shul I davened at, ending with hatikva and shir hamaalot (no additional haftarah reading), no tachanun.
There's also an al-hanisim for yom yerushalayim and yom haatzmaut which is recited in some circles.
Where did you see those Al HaNissim prayers? The only place I've seen an Al HaNissim for Yom HaAtzmaut is in the (Conservative) Siddur Sim Shalom.
Shira,
The Conservative Movement has a subset that adopted an Al HaNissim approach to the days, but don't pretend that there isn't a subset of Relgious ZIonist Orthodox Jews that "gets" that that would be the appropriate approach.
Liberation of Eretz Yisrael and Yerushalayim are religiously MUCH MORE similar to Purim/Chanukah than they are to Biblically ordained observances. We celebrate military victories with an Al HaNissim.
We just fell out of practice by not having any military victories for 2000 yars.
Miami Al, my question was not intended as a criticism. I've just never seen an Ortho Al HaNassim for Yom HaAtzmaut. I agree that it would make sense for the Dati Leumi (Religious Zionist) community to have one. I was just asking where I could find this in an Orthodox siddur or other source.
"Liberation of Eretz Yisrael and Yerushalayim are religiously MUCH MORE similar to Purim/Chanukah than they are to Biblically ordained observances."
True.
"We celebrate military victories with an Al HaNissim.
We just fell out of practice by not having any military victories for 2000 yars."
Also true.
Here are the rest of the 12 comments that I was able to copy before the Blogspot/Blogger.com outage:
rivkayael said...
Drisha does that too. I've seen weekday pseukei d'zimra with full hallel with bracha in another orthodox shul I davened at, ending with hatikva and shir hamaalot (no additional haftarah reading), no tachanun.
There's also an al-hanisim for yom yerushalayim and yom haatzmaut which is recited in some circles.
WED MAY 11, 06:44:00 PM 2011
Shira Salamone said...
Where did you see those Al HaNissim prayers? The only place I've seen an Al HaNissim for Yom HaAtzmaut is in the (Conservative) Siddur Sim Shalom.
WED MAY 11, 10:42:00 PM 2011
Miami Al said...
Shira,
The Conservative Movement has a subset that adopted an Al HaNissim approach to the days, but don't pretend that there isn't a subset of Relgious ZIonist Orthodox Jews that "gets" that that would be the appropriate approach.
Liberation of Eretz Yisrael and Yerushalayim are religiously MUCH MORE similar to Purim/Chanukah than they are to Biblically ordained observances. We celebrate military victories with an Al HaNissim.
We just fell out of practice by not having any military victories for 2000 yars.
THU MAY 12, 09:48:00 AM 2011
Shira Salamone said...
Miami Al, my question was not intended as a criticism. I've just never seen an Ortho Al HaNassim for Yom HaAtzmaut. I agree that it would make sense for the Dati Leumi (Religious Zionist) community to have one. I was just asking where I could find this in an Orthodox siddur or other source.
"Liberation of Eretz Yisrael and Yerushalayim are religiously MUCH MORE similar to Purim/Chanukah than they are to Biblically ordained observances."
True.
"We celebrate military victories with an Al HaNissim.
We just fell out of practice by not having any military victories for 2000 yars."
Also true.
THU MAY 12, 12:52:00 PM 2011
Shira,
You might be interested to know that the Bostoner Rebbe recently ruled for his followers to not say tachanun on 5 Iyar regardless of when Yom Hatzmuot is observed. In his view, that is the date of the mircale, and the state moving the date of the parade is not relevent. Therefore, if 5 Iyar is on Shabbat one would skip av harachamin, etc
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