Can anyone make sense of this letter, which appears to be in the Syriac script?

Here’s some mysterious writing from a napkin ring.

Can any of you identify the script or decipher it?

This writing comes from a puzzle that appeared in the Puzzle Museum in 2005 and since then no-one has been able to identify the script or decipher it.

Some of the letters look like Thai or Lao, while others look like Tagalog to me.

The person who sent in the puzzle thinks the writing might be in a magical alphabet like the ones here.

This mysterious inscription was sent in by an editor at the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. One of their reporters is working on a story about a book that was donated to a local library there. It’s a portfolio of prints apparently related to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad that was compiled for the 1939 World’s Fair.

The inscription below is on the flyleaf, and they’ve been trying to determine what language it’s in in the hopes of getting it translated.

The writing appears to be in a cursive form of the Hebrew script, and the language might be Hebrew or Yiddish.

The text on this paper is apparently a prayer. Can any of you decipher it?