#Siddur Sha'ar Zahav

[germiyahu]

So I haven't received it yet cuz shipping, but I ordered this one from Congregation Sha'ar Zahav because it was highly recommended!

https://shaarzahav.org/our-siddur/

I also discovered that Artscroll is currently giving away siddurim, including non-Ashki ones!

https://hashemlovesyou.net/

I also have and love Mishkan T'filah, and am currently waiting for my travel version to be delivered 😊

Thanks! I'll have to pass on the Sha'ar Zahav for now, it's awfully expensive and I just did a payment plan on my credit card for the Lev Shalem and the Mahzor Lev Shalem together. But I'd be interested to check that one out someday!

But I will take advantage of a free Siddur, if it's not inappropriate, I asked for a Nusach Edot haMizrach, because I would also like to have a Sfaradi perspective even if I'm 90% sure my congregation is Ashkenazi?

[pomegranateandhoney]

Siddur Sha’ar Zahav

I got a notification today that my copy of the Siddur Sha’ar Zahav has been shipped! I am so, so, so excited to receive it.

Created in 2009, Siddur Sha’ar Zahav speaks directly to experiences which are not found in other published siddurim — prayers for being single, contemplations for nonbelievers, and blessings for coming out of dark places. It engages traditional Jewish liturgy and goes beyond. It is also a complete LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) and egalitarian Jewish prayer book. It is for those who are learning prayers and those who are deeply knowledgeable.

There are powerful sections with:

- Blessings (Brachot) for many occasions, daily life and life-cycle events - Remembrances (Chesed V’Emet) for synagogue, graveside and home use - Multiple readings for Pride Shabbat and Transgender Remembrance  - Shabbat - Songs (Shirim/Z’mirot) from our world-wide Jewish heritage

I have been waiting quite a while for the siddur to become available again!

While my synagogue uses the Siddur Sim Shalom, at home I have the Mishkan T’filah and an old copy of the Gates of Prayer. Right now I really rely heavily on transliteration, but I’m hoping to work on my Hebrew so that I won’t require it. I’m glad that the Siddur Sha’ar Zahav has transliteration as well. And I am so excited to have a book with prayers like these soon!

[nonstandardrepertoire]

i love your siddur! i wanted to know if you’ve ever read siddur sha’ar zahav or siddur masorti?

ah, thank you so much! i've only seen excerpts from Siddur Sha'ar Zahav, but i have a copy of Siddur Masorti and i'm very much looking forward to their upcoming shabbat volume; i think the work Isaac and Adam have done is really phenomenal and a great service to the Jewish world at large. i've been quite taken with the excerpts from SSZ that i've seen, but i can't really say much about the prayerbook as a whole, since i haven't really been able to spend time with it in the same way that i have with SM. i'd like to pick up a copy one of these days, but other things have been a higher priority, so i haven't quite managed it yet

[nonbinaryfrillish]

Pride Shabbat 5777 / 2017 at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco

[thevampiremarie]

If I am remembering correctly from class, they are the first queer congregation in the United States and the first synagogue in America to welcome/support/uplift AIDS victims during the AIDS crisis.

They also created their own egalitarian, feminist, inclusive, queer-positive siddur that has masculine, feminine, (and neutral, i think) language when possible, along with prayers and blessings written by the congregation.

I'm a huge fan of them (partially because of my professor), if you decide to check them out, I think you would find them super interesting.

They have their siddur online:

hey! i saw you post about your jewish conversion process (congrats on starting that btw!) and i wanted to ask if you've heard of congregation sha'ar zahav? you may already know about them/attend their services by zoom, but they're a really incredible reform queer congregation based in San Francisco, who have Shabbat services over zoom.

I'm taking a class on queering religion taught by a rabbi who used to lead the congregation, and we attended one of their Shabbat services for an assignment and it was deeply moving.

Thank you for the congrats!!! I haven't heard of that congregation before but it sounds amazing! Today was actually the first Shabbat service i've ever experienced, so it will be interesting to see what other congregations are like! The class you're taking sounds great too; I'd love to do something like that some day :D

[infiniteglitterfall]

HEY LGBTQIPA+ JEWS, JEWS-TO-BE, AND ALLIES. WANT A QUEER-FRIENDLY SHABBAT SERVICE?

Sha'ar Zahav, in San Francisco, has just announced that they are doing virtual services for Shabbat for at least the rest of March 2020.

They've been thinking about some way to make their services accessible online for a while, so I'm hoping they continue this practice!

(It's a Reform synagogue, FWIW. And their website says LGBTQ, I think. But their purple shirts, on the back, in rainbow letters, in all caps, offer this whole alphabetized list: "ASEXUAL BISEXUAL ENBY GAY INTERSEX LESBIAN PANSEXUAL QUEER STRAIGHT TRANS JEWISH WWW.SHAARZAHAV.ORG")

Here's the info:

Friday Night Shabbat Services: Friday, March 13, 7:30pm Pacific Time - Tune in to Shabbat services by clicking here. We will be using our Siddur Sha'ar Zahav prayerbook, but will make it as accessible as we can in case you don't have one. If you'd like to purchase a Siddur, please do so here.

(It should be the same time every Friday, so don't worry if you're seeing this later!)

They also have this on the 13th, before Shabbat services:

Hineni Caring Community: Friday, March 13, 6:00pm - We will be learning about how we can best care for each other in community right now and how we are coping with this situation. We will be meeting via Zoom ONLY so please click here to attend virtually.

I'll reblog this to add any new virtual events there in March!

And if you like what you see, they have this:

Members: Join our online group (SZ Members)! Get on ShulCloud, our fabulous new database and member portal, so we know how to communicate with you. We also need correct phone numbers so we could be in touch if we need to. If you can't find your login information, just login with your email and hit "forgot password." If you are still having trouble, feel free to email heidy@shaarzahav.org.

Not-yet-members: Is it time for you to officially join our community? Click here!

(Both that, and the ShulCloud thing, go to their membership application page for me? Maybe on desktop there's something else, idk. Becoming a member gets you on their email list, but you can also sign up for that at the bottom of their website.)

Worthy of note: membership at Sha'ar Zahav is free.

You are welcome to donate but it's not required, and it's separate from the actual membership form.

❤ Please signal boost this to help those who are isolated from the Jewish community! ❤

[convertjourney]

Bought a siddur!

I bought the Siddur Sha'ar Zahav earlier today, and I can't wait to dig in whenever it arrives! Let me know if you want to see some pics of the layout, I know there aren't a lot of reviews out there

[emoyouth]

I WANT THIS SIDDUR SO BAD!!!!! But it’s 50 $ and with international shipping it would cost about 100 $ in total. And I can’t afford that. But I want it so bad, I’m almost crying. Isn’t there any solution to this? Please? Somebody wants to donate this siddur to me? :)