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📄 Scaling the Walls of the Labyrinth: Psalms 67 and Ana b’Khoaḥ

Psalms 67 is a priestly blessing for all the peoples of the earth to be sustained by the earth’s harvest (yevulah), and it is a petition that all humanity recognize the divine nature (Elohim) illuminating the world. Composed of seven verses, the psalm is often visually depicted as a seven branched menorah. There are 49 words in the entire psalm, and in the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l there is one word for each day of the Sefirat haOmer. Similarly, the fifth verse has 49 letters and each letter can be used as a focal point for meditating on the meaning of the day in its week in the journey to Shavuot, the festival of weeks (the culmination of the barley harvest), and the festival of oaths (shevuot) in celebration of receiving the Torah. Many of the themes of Psalms 67 are repeated in the prayer Ana b’Koaḥ, which also has 49 words, and which are also used to focus on the meaning of each day on the cyclical and labyrinthine journey towards Shavuot. . . .

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42 letter divine name, a red ribbon, acrostic, אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, anxiety, barley, captives, cyclical, Divine name acrostic, first fruits, labyrinth, Psalms 67, Raḥav, shalmah, walled cities, wheat

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Unknown and Aharon N. Varady

הושׁענות | Hoshanot by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, translation by Gabbai Seth Fishman

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

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Sukkot, Ecotastrophes, Hoshana Rabba

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

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Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

ליקוטי תפילות א:קמה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot Ⅰ:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemyriv adapted from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman (ca. 1820s)

A prayer for Sukkot linking the theme of home building and receiving Torah with a warning not to eat animals and to extend ones compassion to all creatures. . . .

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Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Sukkot, Kosher Slaughter

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., animal welfare, animals, anti-predatory, being human, Breslov, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov), Likutei Tefilot, menschlekite

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Noson Sternhartz of Nemyriv and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Für den ersten Tag des Laubhüttenfestes [no.2] | For the first day of Sukkot (no.2), a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“[Für den ersten Tag des Laubhüttenfestes (no.2]” 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 №49 on pp. 70-72. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №51 pp. 88-90. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №53 on pp. 93-95. . . .

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Sukkot

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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 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)

Vor dem Etrog-Segen | Before the Etrog Blessing, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Vor dem Etrog-Segen” 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 №47 on pp. 67-68. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №49 pp. 85-86. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №51 on p. 90. . . .

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Sukkot

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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)

Für den ersten Tag des Laubhüttenfestes [no.1] | For the first day of Sukkot (no.1), a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Für den ersten Tag 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 mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №48 on pp. 68-70. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №50 pp. 86-88. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №52 on pp. 91-93. . . .

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Sukkot

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

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

An den Hauptfesten, wenn man Behufs der üblichen Vorlesungen die Gesetzrolle aus der heiligen Lade nimmt | On the Shalosh Regalim when one removes the Torah from the holy Ark, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“An den Hauptfesten, wenn man Behufs der üblichen Vorlesungen die Gesetzrolle aus der heiligen Lade nimmt” 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 №18 on pp. 22-23. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №18 on pp. 26-27. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №20 on pp. 29-31. . . .

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Before the Aliyot, Shavuot, Sukkot, Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag, Shemini Atseret

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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)

Fürbitte | Intercession, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Fürbitte” 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 №4 on pp. 4-6. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it also appears as teḥinah №4 on pp. 5-7. . . .

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Sukkot

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

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

Gebet um einen guten Nahrungsstand | Prayer for an ample supply of food, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Gebet um einen guten Nahrungstand” 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 1835 edition as teḥinah №116 on pp. 223-224. . . .

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Sukkot, Shemini Atseret

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

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

How Desolate Thy Fields and Vales, a hymn for Sukkot by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“How desolate thy fields and vales,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Tabernacles (Sucote)” as Hymn 64 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 66-67. . . .

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Sukkot

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

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

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 of Thanksgiving for the Feast of Tabernacles (סוכות), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Feast of Tabernacles (סכות)” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 35. . . .

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Sukkot

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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] An den ersten Tagen des Laubhüttenfestes | [A prayer] on the first days of Sukkot by Fanny Neuda (1855)

As part of our ongoing project creating a new digital edition of Fanny Neuda’s collection of tkhines in German, Stunden Der Andacht (1855), we are setting her prayers (for the first time ever) side by side with that of her work’s first English translation. . . .

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] Am Laubhüttenfest beim Kreisgang mit dem Lulaw und Esrog | [Prayer] on Sukkot at the Haḳafot with the Lulav & Etrog, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

Herr des Weltalls, reich geschmückt mit deinen Gaben und Segnungen hast du die Natur. Das Thal mit seinem üppigen Grün, der Berg mit seinem Kranz von Wäldern, das Gefilde mit seiner lachenden Frucht ist ein Erzeugnis; deiner Gnade, zum Segen deiner Menschenkinder, zur Nahrung ihres Leibes, zur Stillung ihrer Bedürfnisse, zur Ergötzung ihres Auges, zum Balsam ihrer Wunden; und kein Blättchen ist so klein, kein Grashalm so niedrig in dem weiten Reiche der Natur, daß es nicht wohlthuende heilsame Kräfte für uns enthielte. . . .

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] An den letzten Tagen des Laubhüttenfestes | [A prayer] on the last days of Sukkot, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

This is Fanny Neuda’s “Prayer for the final days of Sukkot,” faithfully transcribed and proofread with the help of German Wikisource contributors from Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), p. 66. . . .

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the First Day of Sukkot, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for a woman celebrating the first yontef of Sukkot. . . .

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Sukkot

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

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Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

עַל נְטִילַת לוּלָב | Blessing Over the Lulav, a rhyming translation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

This rhyming paraphrase of the blessing before waving the lulav on Sukkot was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 17. . . .

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Sukkot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ארבה מנים arba minim, blessings, rhyming translation

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Jessie Ethel Sampter and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Sukkot Prayer [for Jews in the United States], by Rabbi Norman Salit (ca. 1920s)

This untitled prayer was written by Rabbi Norman Salit and published in Rabbi Jacob Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 35-36 (in the section titled “Prayers for Succoth”). . . .

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Sukkot, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Americanism, bigotry, liberty

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Norman Salit and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Pilgrim March, a hymn for Sukkot by Angie Irma Cohon (1921)

“The Pilgrim March” by Angie Irma Cohon is a hymn for Sukkot published in her תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 22. . . .

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Sukkot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns

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Angie Irma Cohon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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