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

Contributor(s): Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Shared on: 30 September 2015 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

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

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Hebrew	English
הוֹשַׁעְנָא לְמַעַנְךָ אֶלֹהֵינוּ הוֹשַעְנָא	Save us, please, for Your sake, our God, save us, please.
הוֹשַׁעְנָא לְמַעַנְךָ בּוֹרֵאנוּ הוֹשַעְנָא	Save us, please, for Your sake, our Creator, save us, please.
הוֹשַׁעְנָא לְמַעַנְךָ גוֹאֲלֵנוּ הוֹשַעְנָא	Save us, please, for Your sake, our Redeemer, save us, please.
הוֹשַׁעְנָא לְמַעַנְךָ דוֹרְשֵׁנוּ הוֹשַעְנָא	Save us, please, for Your sake, our Attender, save us, please.
כִּי אִיבַּדְנוּ אַדְמָתְךָ	For we have destroyed Your ground
כִּי בָּזִינוּ בְּרִיאָתְךָ	For we have ransacked Your creation
גִיעַלְנוּ גִדוּלֶיךָ	We have polluted Your generous gift
דָרַכְנוּ עַל דִשְׁאֲךָ	We have trampled upon Your verdure
הָרַסְנוּ אֶת הַהֲוָיָה	We have demolished creation
וְקִלְקַלְנוּ וְשִׁחַתְנוּ	And we have damaged and we have ruined
זָרַמְנוּ זִיז שְׂדוֹתֵינוּ	We have stormed upon bloom of our fields
חָמַסְנוּ חַיוֹת רַבּוֹת	We have wronged a multitude of life-forms
טָרַפְנוּ טִנִאֲךָ	We have ripped Your basket [of fruit]
יָקַדְנוּ יְעָרוֹת	We have set forests ablaze
כִּרְסַמְנוּ כְּרָמִים	We have eroded vineyards
לָכַדְנוּ לְבָנוֹן	We have seized forests [Lebanon]
מָאַסְנוּ מַעֲשֶׂיךָ	We have loathed Your handiwork
נִאַצְנוּ נְטִיעָתְךָ	We have rejected what you planted
סָלַלְנוּ כְּבִישׁים סְבִיבֵי בָּתֵינוּ	We have paved paths around our houses
עִינִינוּ עוֹפוֹת עִם רַעַל	We have afflicted birds with poison
פִּגַלְנוּ פֵּירוֹתֵינוּ	We have rejected our fruits
צָדִינוּ צָבִים	We have made desolate coveted lands
קָצַרְנוּ קְמוּשׁוֹת	We have harvested thorns
רוּחֵנוּ רָזוֹן	Our air has become thin
שִׁמַמְנוּ שִׁטוֹת	We have made [our world] desolate through folly
תִיעַבְנוּ תָלַמִים	We have loathed the cultivated land.

This Hoshanot liturgy first appeared on Gabbai Seth Fishman’s website, Jewish Renewal Hasidus (in PDF format). [A supplemental Hoshanot liturgy for Sukkot confessing a number of humanity’s crimes against creation. –Aharon Varady]

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Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)

Born in 1954 in Brooklyn, Gabbai Seth Fishman grew up in a secular Jewish home though always felt spiritual. He was shaped by the social and political forces of the late 1960s and 70s. He received a B.A. from Yale in Music in 1976 and an MBA from Wharton School of Business in 1986. In 1989, he met Reb Zalman and began working for him as a gabbai the following year. Married with two daughters, he is active in the Jewish Ritual life of Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he davvens, studies and teaches Ḥasidus.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Rabbi Dr. Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, affectionately known as "Reb Zalman" (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014) was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Żółkiew, Poland (now Ukraine) and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy Regime but managed to flee the Nazi advance, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the ḤaBaD Hasidic movement while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served ḤaBaD communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He subsequently earned an M.A. in psychology of religion at Boston University, and a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. He was initially sent out to speak on college campuses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in the early 1960s, after experimenting with "the sacramental value of lysergic acid", the main ingredient in LSD, leadership within ḤaBaD circles cut ties with him. He continued teaching the Torah of Ḥassidut until the end of his life to creative, free and open-minded Jewish thinkers with humility and kindness and established warm ecumenical ties as well. In September 2009, he became the first contributor of a siddur to the Open Siddur Project database of Jewish liturgy and related work. Reb Zalman supported the Open Siddur Project telling its founder, "this is what I've been looking forward to!" and sharing among many additional works of liturgy, an interview he had with Havurah magazine in the early to mid-1980s detailing his vision of "Database Davenen." The Open Siddur Project is proud to be realizing one of Reb Zalman's long held dreams.

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