The Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine presented the Jewish Community of Dnipro with a large number of copies of the first Ukrainian edition of the book “Siddur Tehillat Hashem” – the main book used for collective and individual prayers in most Ukrainian synagogues, which was published for the first time with a parallel Ukrainian translation to Hebrew.
“The Jewish Community of Dnipro wholeheartedly thanks the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine and personally its chairman Rabbi Meir Zvi Stambler for this wonderful and very necessary gift,” noted Rabbi Reuven Kaminezki, “the donated Siddurim are already used for the Schaharit prayer in the central synagogue “Golden Rose”, and some of them were transferred to the Jewish Lyceum of Dnipro and other educational institutions. These Siddurim are in great demand, as are other Jewish books that the Federation publishes in Ukrainian.”
This edition of the Siddur Tehillat Hashem contains all the texts of the weekday Schaharit prayer in the accepted order with commentary, explanations and laws of prayer. As indicated on the cover, the Siddur is composed according to the Arizal nusach: “As our holy teacher, mentor and rabbi, Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, may his merits be a protection for us, established, and as the great teacher and mentor of all Israel, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the author of the Tanya and the Schulhan Aruch, composed according to his order.”
“This special edition of the Siddur for the main morning prayer on weekdays is only part of our large-scale publishing projects on translating Jewish holy books into Ukrainian, which are currently being implemented by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine,” says the chairman of the FJCU, Rabbi Meir Zvi Stambler. “We are very pleased to donate hundreds of copies of this edition of the Siddur to the Jewish Community of Dnipro and hope that in the near future these Siddurs will be prayed for in all synagogues in Ukraine.”
