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Hoshana Rabba

This is an archive of prayers, mostly hoshanot, for the 7th and final day of Sukkot: הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּא (Hoshana Rabba). Together with Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabbah is the third in a triad of days dedicated to seeking forgiveness before the crucial prayer for rain is offered on the following festival day, Shemini Atseret, the onset of the wet/rainy season (in the northern hemisphere).

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הושׁענות | Hoshanot for Creation, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

A supplemental Hoshanot liturgy for Sukkot confessing a selection of humanity’s crimes against creation.

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, הקפות haḳafot, Hoshana Rabbah, הושענות hoshanot, North America

Contributor(s):

Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

אָז כְּעֵינֵי עֲבָדִים | Az K’einei Avadim (As slaves, with eyes beseeching…), a piyyuṭ for the seventh circuit of Hoshana Rabba (translated by Elsie Davis)

This is the piyyut “Az K’einei Avadim (As slaves, with eyes beseeching,…)” by an unknown paytan for the seventh circuit of the Hoshana Rabba service (on the seventh and final day of Sukkot), published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Sukkot, Avodat Ḥag ha-Sukkot (1908), pp. 183.

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Hoshana Rabba

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הושענות hoshanot, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Unknown

כְּהשַֽׁעְתָּ אֵלִים | Kehoshata Élim (Savior of mighty ones…), a hoshana piyyuṭ for the second day of Sukkot by Elazar Kilir (translated by Elsie Davis)

This is the piyyut “Kehoshata Elim (Savior of mighty ones…)” by Eleazar Kalir for the hoshanot on the second day of Sukkot, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Sukkot, Avodat Ḥag ha-Sukkot (1908), pp. 144-145.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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45th century A.M., 7th century C.E., הושענות hoshanot, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Elazar ben Qallir

Teḥinah upon tearing off the pitom of the etrog on Hoshana Rabba, from the Tsenah Ur’enah (1622)

This is Dr. Morris Faierstein’s transcription and translation of one of the earliest teḥinot from the earliest surviving edition of the Tsenah u-Re’enah (Basel/Hanau 1622) as found in his article “The Earliest Published Yiddish Tehinnot (1590–1609)” in Hebrew Union College Annual, 2020, Vol. 91 (2020). The transcription of the Yiddish sourcetext is found on page 206 and the English translation is found on page 187. The translation is shared under the libre Open Access license (Creative Commons Attribution) provided for the critical translation of the text in Ze’enah U-Re’enah: A Critical Translation into English (Volume 96 in the series Studia Judaica, ed. Morris M. Faierstein; De Gruyter 2017).

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Hoshana Rabba

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17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., the pitom of the etrog, תחינות teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer

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Unknown, Morris M. Faierstein (translation) and Yaaqov ben Yitsḥaq Ashkenazi

A Prayer for Divine Mercy, by Glikl bat Yehudah Leib from her memoirs (ca. early 18th c.)

This prayer by Glikl bat Yehudah Leib was made from the text transcribed and published in Chava Turniansky’s critical edition, Glikl: Memoirs (1691-1719) (Shazar 2006), pp. 242-244, and Sara Friedman’s English translation of that edition, edited by Turniansky (Brandeis University Press 2019), p. 144.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., עלינו Aleinu, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

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Chava Turniansky (transcription), Sara Friedman (translation) and Glikl bat Yehudah Leib

Wenn eine Frau den stiel vom Esrog ausbeißt | When a woman bites the pitom from the etrog, by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Wenn eine Frau den stiel vom Esrog ausbeißt” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №51, on pp. 73-74. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №52, on pp. 91-92. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №55, on pp. 96-97.

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Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

Am siebenten Tage des Laubhüttenfestes (Hoschana Raba) | On the seventh day of Sukkot (Hoshana Rabbah), a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am siebenten Tage des Laubhüttenfestes. (Hoschana Raba)” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №50 on pp. 72-73. In the 1835 edition, it appears (misnumbered) as teḥinah №51 pp. 90-91. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №54 on pp. 95-96.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Am Neujahrs⸗, am Versöhnungstage und am siebenten Tage des Laubhüttenfestes, wenn man Behufs der üblichen Vorlesungen die Gesetzrolle aus der heiligen Lade nimmt | On Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshana Rabbah when one removes the Torah from the holy Ark, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Bei eben dieser Gelegenheit am Neujahrs⸗, am Versöhnungstage und am siebenten Tage des Laubhüttenfestes” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №19 on pp. 23-24. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №19 on pp. 27-28. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №21 on pp. 30-31.

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Before the Aliyot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, הוצאת ספר תורה Removal of the Torah from the Ark, תחינות teḥinot

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Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Rude are the Tabernacles Now, a hymn for Hoshana Rabbah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Rude are the Tabernacles now,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Tabernacles (Sucote)” as Hymn 65 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 67-68.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABABCC rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, hymns, South Carolina

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Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the 7th Day of Sukkot (הושענא רבה), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer for the Seventh Day of Tabernacles (הושענה רבה)” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 37.

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Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet einer schwangern Frau, an הושענא רבה, nachdem sie den Segen über die Etrog-Frucht gesprochen | Prayer of a pregnant woman on Hoshana Rabbah after saying the blessing over the etrog fruit, a teḥinah by Meïr Letteris (1852)

“Gebet einer schwangern Frau, an הושענא רבה, nachdem sie den Segen über die Etrog-Frucht gesprochen.” was translated/adapted by Meïr haLevi Letteris and published in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (2nd edition, 1852), pp. 41-42. In 1852, this teḥinah was translated into English (with a short prayer added for children) by Miriam Wertheimer under the title “Prayer for a woman who is about to become a mother, after the benediction of the citron” in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 52-54.

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Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Miriam Wertheimer (translation), Meïr haLevi Letteris and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּחִנָה זאָגט מען װען מען בּײַסט אָפּ דעם פִּטוּם פוּן דעם אֶתְרוֹג | Tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog (Siddur Ḳorban Minḥah, 1861)

A tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog

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Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., fertility, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, pregnancy, סגולות segulot, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation) and Unknown

A Penitential Prayer, by Rabbi Sabato Morais (October 1867)

This penitential prayer dated “Tishri 5628 [October 1867]” was offered in conclusion to “A Penitential Sermon” reprinted in The Jewish Messenger on 25 November 1867. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (page 34, clipping 041), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.)

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Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Philadelphia, Ḳ.Ḳ. Miḳveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), סליחות səliḥot, תשובה teshuvah

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Sabato Morais and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

“Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin,” a prayer-poem by Miriam del Banco (1932)

The prayer-poem ““Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin”” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in her posthumously published anthology, Poetry and Prose (1932), p. 94-95.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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Miriam del Banco and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Repentance (CCAR 1951)

“Repentance” is the thirty-sixth prayer in the “Meditations” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 200. It is one of only three new prayers found in this section (the others having been reprinted from CCAR’s 1923 collection of teḥinot).

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, determinism, English vernacular prayer, self, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

The Open Door of the Heart, a prayer by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“The Open Door of the Heart” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), pp. 43-44, from where this prayer was transcribed.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., exhortation, Prayers for Praying, רשויות reshuyot, self-care, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הושענא לתיקון ולנחמה | Hoshana for Healing and Consolation, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx

A supplemental hoshana (prayer for salvation) for healing and consolation for the sake of true love, needed blessings, rainfall in a timely fashion, paths and their repair, mountains and their crossing, goals and objectives, lasting memories, good dreams, cosmic goodness, etc.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפות haḳafot, Hoshana Rabbah, הושענות hoshanot, ישראל Yisrael

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Dalia Marx and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Hoshanot Liturgy for the Climate Crisis, adapted by R’ Ezra Weinberg from the words of Greta Thunberg

The words of Greta Thunberg adapted for a prayer for intervention in the anthropogenic climate crisis, for a Honshana ritual for Sukkot.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba, Ecotastrophes

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, climate crisis, English vernacular prayer, global climate change, הושענות hoshanot, mesostic

Contributor(s):

Ezra Weinberg

Seven Hoshanot for Creation, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

A litany of hoshanot for use in a ritual prayer circle march on the festival of Sukkot.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)

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David Seidenberg and Neohasid·org

Hosha-na for Our Planet, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

A litany of hoshanot for use in a ritual prayer circle march on the festival of Sukkot.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, mesostic, Northampton, United States

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David Seidenberg and Neohasid·org

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