Welcome to the prayer portal, established for your awareness of the prayer services offered by our non-governmental organisation, the Alliance of Jews, Its Converts and Noachides, registered in Sweden. This website remains under construction, and we intend, in due course, to offer various means by which donations, or payments, might be made — such as, for instance, through future set up accounts. We further hope that generous donors may enable us to establish an organisational bank account with a Swedish bank, for the purposes of our NGO, the Alliance of Jews, Its Converts and Noachides. Should a benefactor generously provide the full sum required to establish our organisation’s bank account, we would be most grateful to direct the donations already received towards our ongoing projects. Any further contributions received thereafter would, likewise, be allocated to the furtherance of our projects.
The prayer services we are able to offer are set out among the listings presented herein. Prayers may be conducted on your behalf both within the State of Israel and abroad, by those skilled and experienced in prayer, known as prayer-agents. Should you additionally wish for an enhanced offering, our director, Chaim Jeshurun, is prepared to provide access to contacts of genuine and deeply rooted Kabbalists.
At present, we have determined that it would not be appropriate to disclose the particular holy sites at which your prayers would be conducted. We believe this to be a fitting and prudent approach, undertaken so as to spare you from any concern regarding the appearance of idolatry.
”Shaliach tefilot” (שליח תפילות) may be rendered, in a fairly literal sense, as ”emissary” or ”agent of prayers.” The term draws upon the root ש-ל-ח (shin-lamed-chet), from which the verb lishloach, ”to send,” derives — so a shaliach is, at its core, one who is sent, or who acts as a representative, on behalf of another.
Within Jewish liturgical tradition, the more commonly encountered term is shaliach tsibur (שליח ציבור), literally ”emissary of the congregation” — the individual who leads communal prayer and, in a sense, carries the prayers of the assembled community before the Almighty on their behalf. ”Shaliach tefilot,” by contrast, would denote one who acts as an emissary specifically of prayers themselves, rather than of the congregation as a body — a formulation that would suit rather naturally the notion of a prayer-agent who conveys, on behalf of a distant petitioner, prayers to be offered at a particular holy site.
The purpose of the organisation is to establish and cultivate a digital religious community of worldwide reach, in accordance with the principles of Orthodox Judaism. Moreover, the organisation shall remain open to pursuing the registration of a new branch of Judaism, provisionally termed ”Conceptive Judaism,” though we have since arrived at what may be regarded as the more suitable designation, ”Conceptual Judaism,” as well as recognition for the religion of those who adhere solely to the Seven Laws of Noach, within such countries of interest wherein a substantial presence of these adherents may be found.
The organisation shall be grateful to receive donations from private individuals, foundations, and other organisations alike.
We would be most gratified if you would kindly favour us with your prayer request, which you may communicate to us at your convenience. Should you additionally wish to extend your generous support by way of a donation, we would humbly request that the amount be not less than six United States Dollars.
One manner in which the practice of Kabbalah may be undertaken in respect of a person is not confined to the mention of the name alone, nor merely to the name together with that of the mother, as is already familiar to many from the traditional prayers wherein the name of the person is invoked alongside the name of the mother; rather, should the date of birth also happen to be known, it would be humbly submitted that the same ought to be included as well, so that the prayer may be performed in accordance with the laws of Kabbalah. It would be pertinent to mention, in this regard, that some persons are, unfortunately, given to the mistaken habit of referring to Kabbalah as a form of ”Jewish magic,” which characterisation, it must respectfully be submitted, is erroneous. It is, rather, in our humble understanding, to be regarded as an ancient and time-honoured manner of ensuring that prayers are rendered in a just and proper way.
We have, over a considerable period, engaged with staff at PayPal who have merely claimed to cooperate with us, while in truth demonstrating no willingness to do so whatsoever, for reasons that remain unclear to us even now. On occasion, we have been asked to resubmit documentation that had already been furnished on a previous occasion. We were assured, each time, that we should hear further once matters had been resolved on their end; regrettably, no such communication has been forthcoming. When we have subsequently enquired as to the progress of our application, we have invariably been asked to provide the very same documents once more. Beyond this, we have also been requested to produce a document from a Swedish governmental authority formally attesting to our organisation’s charitable status — a request we have explained cannot be fulfilled, as no such document exists within the Swedish regulatory framework. What we have offered, on repeated occasions, is our certificate of registration bearing our organisation number, issued by the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket).
We must, with some regret, conclude that our experience with PayPal has been characterised by conduct we can only regard as unprofessional and, at times, disingenuous, and we understand that there are other leading roles with their NGO’s who feels the same way.
In light of this, we intend to offer alternative means of donation through this website.