National Arbor Day (last Friday of April) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs composed for National Arbor Day in the United States, occurring on the last Friday in April.
Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a transcription and/or translation of an Arbor Day prayer.
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For prayers composed for the praxis of planting vegetation (in general), go here.
For prayers composed for the New Year’s Day for Trees (Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot a/k/a Tu biShvat), go here.
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[Prayer for a] Tree Planting, by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1952)

Contributor(s):

Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A prayer for planting a tree or trees. . . .

Opening Prayer on the Significance of Arbor Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

Contributor(s):

John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

This opening prayer for Arbor Day, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 3-4 — as preface to a number of readings selected by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams for the day. . . .

Closing Prayer for Arbor Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

Contributor(s):

John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

This closing prayer for Arbor Day, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 86. . . .

אמעריקע | America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee), a patriotic hymn by Samuel Francis Smith (1832) with Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1950)

Contributor(s):

Berl Lapin (translation), Samuel Francis Smith and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

The well-known patriotic hymn with a Yiddish translation. . . .

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Arbor Day, Wild Animal Park, Girl Scout Plants Tree Assisted by Leader (circa 1979-1986)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17