{"id":2139,"date":"2018-03-07T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/2018\/03\/07\/aliyah-101-what-you-should-know-before-being-called-to-the-torah-3-2"},"modified":"2018-06-12T07:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T07:55:27","slug":"aliyah-101-what-you-should-know-before-being-called-to-the-torah-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/03\/07\/aliyah-101-what-you-should-know-before-being-called-to-the-torah-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer Before One&#8217;s Aliyah to the Torah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post presents an original prayer which was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbijillhammer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Jill Hammer<\/a>\u00a0<span id=\"region-content\">to be recited by an individual or community at the time that the Torah is lifted or before one&#8217;s own personal\u00a0<span class=\"Hebrew\"><cite title=\"Lit. Ascending Being called up to recite the blessing before and after a Torah reading. Also, a term used upon moving to Israel (i.e., making aliyah) \">aliyah. Although she wrote this blessing specifically for the holiday of Simchat Torah, as can be seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualwell.org\/ritual\/new-rituals-simchat-torah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full article,<\/a> it can be recited at any time of year. Rabbi Jill Hammer, an author, teacher, mystic, and poet, shared\u00a0this ritual on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ritualwell.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritualwell<\/a>, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College that provides a platform for creating new Jewish practices and observances.<\/cite><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Prayer for Before Aliyah<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"region-content\"><span class=\"Hebrew\"><em>Makor hachayim, bechol shanah veshanah ata noteh banu etz chayim chadash.\u00a0<a class=\"glossary-term\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualwell.org\/glossary\/4\/lettery#term387\"><cite title=\"Lit. \">Yehi ratzon<\/cite><\/a>\u00a0milifanecha shehashanah midrasheinu yifr&#8217;chu chesed ve&#8217;lo achzarut, chochmah velo k&#8217;silut, tevunah velo kalut rosh. Lamdeinu Torat chesed she&#8217;taachilenu bayamim haba&#8217;im uvechol sha&#8217;ah. Amen.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"region-content\">Source of Life, every year you plant within us a new tree of life. May it be your will that this year our interpretations will blossom forth kindness and not cruelty, wisdom and not foolishness, awareness and not thoughtlessness. May you teach us a Torah of love that will nourish us in the coming days at every hour. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents an original prayer which was written by Rabbi Jill Hammer\u00a0to be recited by an individual or community at the time that the Torah is lifted or before one&#8217;s own personal\u00a0aliyah. Although she wrote this blessing specifically for the holiday of Simchat Torah, as can be seen in the full article, it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}