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Chajm Guski (German translation)
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Ḥanukkah
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kindling, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry, lamp lighting
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Just in time for Ḥanukkah, Chajm Guski shares a חנוכה מדריך (Ḥanukkah Madrikh), Handbook for Ḥanukkah, with a Deutsch translation and transliteration of the blessings on lighting the Ḥanukiah, the kavanah, HaNerot HaLalu, and the piyyut, Maoz Tzur. . . . |
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David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
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Elections & Voting, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
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eco-conscious, United States, democratic process, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., global warming, global climate change, ecoḥasid
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This prayer is broadly speaking a prayer that we learn to work together to create a better future, and it incorporates a pledge to do one thing for healing the world, for tikkun olam, that will make this future a reality. It’s not a prayer about winning or getting other people to see things our way, like some of the others I’ve seen. Whomever we support, we need to pray for strength for the next president, and for the whole country, to face what will be challenging times. . . . |
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David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
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Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
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eco-conscious, North America, earth, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid
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God of all spirit, all directions, all winds You have placed in our hands power unlike any since the world began to overturn the orders of creation. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Miles Krassen
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Seder l'Rosh Hashanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
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eco-conscious, Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, תקונים tiqqunim, 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., fertility, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim
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From the Pri Etz Hadar, the first ever published seder for Tu Bishvat, circa 17th century: “speech has the power to arouse the sefirot and to cause them to shine more wondrously with a very great light that sheds abundance, favor, blessing, and benefit throughout all the worlds. Consequently, before eating each fruit, it is proper to meditate on the mystery of its divine root, as found in the Zohar and, in some cases, in the tikkunim, in order to arouse their roots above.” . . . |
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Devora Steinmetz and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Midrash Aggadah, Winter Solstice, Ḥanukkah Readings
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sourcesheet, sunset, night, Winter Solstice, קלנדס Ḳalends, Psalms 139, הבדלות havdalot
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Our Rabbis taught: When Adam HaRishon (primordial Adam) saw the day getting gradually shorter, he said, ‘Woe is me, perhaps because I have sinned, the world around me is being darkened and returning to its state of chaos and confusion; this then is the kind of death to which I have been sentenced from Heaven!’ So he began keeping an eight days’ fast. But as he observed the winter solstice and noted the day getting increasingly longer, he said, ‘This is the world’s course’, and he set forth to keep an eight days’ festivity. In the following year he appointed both as festivals. Now, he fixed them for the sake of Heaven, but the [unenlightened] appointed them for the sake of star worship. . . . |
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