Blessings Before Eating • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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

Contributor(s):

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

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Blessings Before Eating, Fasting, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Tishah b'Av Readings

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ecoḥasid, blessings, eco-conscious, ברכות brakhot

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. . . .

הַמוֹצִיא לֶֽחֶם מִן הָאֲרֶץ | Blessing on Breaking Bread, a rhyming translation and explanation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jessie Ethel Sampter

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Blessings Before Eating

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blessings, 20th century C.E., food, 57th century A.M., Pedagogical songs, rhyming translation

This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating bread was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 82. . . .

בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה | Blessing Over Vegetables, a rhyming translation and explanation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jessie Ethel Sampter

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Blessings Before Eating

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earth, 57th century A.M., Pedagogical songs, rhyming translation, blessings, 20th century C.E., food

This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating vegetation, vegetables, and fruit of the earth was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 84. . . .

שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדְבָרוֹ | Blessing on Partaking [all other] Food, a rhyming translation and explanation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jessie Ethel Sampter

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Blessings Before Eating

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rhyming translation, blessings, 20th century C.E., food, 57th century A.M., Pedagogical songs

This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating all other foods (besides bread, fruits, vegetation and vegetables) was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 85. . . .

בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֵץ | Blessing Over Fruit, a rhyming translation and explanation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jessie Ethel Sampter

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Blessings Before Eating

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blessings, 20th century C.E., food, 57th century A.M., Pedagogical songs, Trees, rhyming translation

This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing before eating fruit of trees was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 83. . . .

עַל נְטִילַת יָדָֽיִם | Blessing on Washing the Hands, a rhyming translation and explanation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jessie Ethel Sampter

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Blessings Before Eating, Immersion (Purification)

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תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying, rhyming translation, 20th century C.E., waking, 57th century A.M., Pedagogical songs, Post-prayer supplements

This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing over hand washing was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 81. . . .