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Our Beloved Earth and the Earth of our Ancestors, Remember The parents drawn to your riverbanks, overflowing with water. One was blessed with thirst quenched like a tree planted by streams of water. Your downpour relieved another from the fiery heat with water. They and you sought each other’s well-being, as they sowed seeds by your water. | |
Recall The once-barren woman who had mercy on those who longed for just a sip of water. She lived with integrity on land nourished by water. She led countless women to stand with her in solidarity – Taking shade under trees rooted in soil and water. Thanks to her careful planting and stewardship, She suckled thousands with the natural milk that we call water. | |
Commemorate The prophetesses and prophets who invited us to partner with the water; Who shepherded us and lifted us up, to free ourselves through falls of water; Who taught us rituals to mark the ebbs and flows of seasons and water; The ones who taught us how to build fires and watch the clouds that hydrated us with water. | |
Return To your sacred nature, the spirit within your body of stardust and water. Renew yourself with days of feasting and become pure with one day of abstaining from water. Prepare by witnessing the cleansing, life-giving power of water. Know before whom you stand and remember that we can repair the world, if we learn to accept and to change like water. | |
May we reveal the Divine within and outside, above and below, That which causes the wind to blow and the rain to fall. | |
May we return to water as a blessing and not a curse – Amen. | |
May we return to water for life and not for death – Amen. | |
May we return to water as abundant and not as scarce – Amen. |
Rabbi Louis Polisson’s “Prayer for Rain – An Interpretive Translation and New Stanza of Tefillat Geshem (The Prayer for Rain) Recited on Shemini Atseret,” was inspired by the Alternative Ashkenazic Prayer for Rain with Matriarchs in Siddur Lev Shalem. It was written for Rabbi Katy Allen’s Earth Etudes for Elul 5779.
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