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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System

This is an archive of prayers and song composed for, or relevant to, the Earth, our collective home and life support system.

If you have composed a prayer for the Earth, please share it here.

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The Earth is Our Temple, a d’var tefilah on making blessings over foods by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

The Talmud (Brakhot 35a-b) teaches that eating food without saying a brakhah (a blessing) beforehand is like stealing. A lot of people know that teaching, and it’s pretty deep. But here’s an even deeper part: the Talmud doesn’t call it “stealing”, but מעילה ׁ(“me’ilah“), which means taking from sacred property that belongs to the Temple. So that means that everything in the world is sacred and this Creation is like a HOLY TEMPLE.

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blessings, ברכות brakhot, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid

Contributor(s):

David Seidenberg, Neohasid·org and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפילה לעולם החי | Prayer for the Living Earth, by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen

I offer here a prayer for the Earth, which you may wish to use in your personal prayer practice or as part of a community to which you belong. It could be included as one of the prayers after reading the Torah.

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, North America, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Katy Z. Allen

תְּפִלָּה לְמַעַן תֵּבֵל וּמְלוֹאָהּ | Prayer for the Preservation of the Environment, by Richard Shavei-Tzion

Richard Shavei-Tzion writes, “At this time when mankind is wreaking havoc on our Eco-System, we pray to God to preserve the treasure that is the earth and to grant us the wisdom to make pro-active efforts to protect it for the sake of our future generations and all which dwell upon it.”

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, second chances

Contributor(s):

Richard Shavei-Tzion

תחינה לחזק ידינו במצוות ”כיבוד אב ואם“ ביחס לאמנו, האדמה | A prayer for strengthening our commitment to the commandment of “Honoring our Parents” in relation to Mother Earth, by Rabbi Gila Caine

This teḥinah calls us to remember that we are all personally, as well as communally, responsible for our relationship with the Earth. It also calls us to action, and to recall that even small actions realigning ourselves with the work of the Earth, can be seen as a mitsvah.

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, 🌐 Earth Day (22 April), Ecotastrophes, 🇺🇸 Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., earth, eco-conscious, eco-feminism, כיבוד אב ואם kibud av va-em, מי שברך mi sheberakh, prayers for mothers, טבע Teva

Contributor(s):

Gila Caine

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "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)

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