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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes // 🌔︎ Prayers for the Moon, Month, and Festival Calendar // Days of Judgement & New Year Days //  Rosh haShanah la-BehemahThis is an archive of prayers and ritual activities prepared for, or relevant to, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, the Jewish New Year’s Day for [primarily, Domesticated] Animals (Behemot), celebrated on Alef b’Elul, the first day of the month of Elul in the Jewish calendar. The day is one of the four New Year’s day festivals (Rosh Hashanot) in the Jewish calendar as explained in the Mishnah (Seder Moed Rosh Hashanah 1:1). During the Second Temple period, this was a day on which shepherds determined which of their mature animals were to be tithed for offerings. The day coincides with Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, exactly one month before Rosh Hashanah. Beginning in 2009, the festival began to be revived by Jewish animal protection advocates and environmental educators to raise awareness of the mitsvah of tsar baalei ḥayim (obligating not causing undue suffering of any living creature), the source texts informing Jewish ethical relationships with domesticated animals, and the lived experience of animals impacted by human needs, especially in the industrial meat industry. Click here to contribute your own prayers, song, or resource for an activity or ritual for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah! Filter by Name Alter Abelson | Nathan Marcus Adler | Trisha Arlin | David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) | Michael Fraade (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Yehoshua Heshil Miro | Neohasid [dot] org | Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth | Andreas Rusterholz (transcription) | David Seidenberg | Noson Sternhartz of Nemyriv | the Masoretic Text | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Aharon N. Varady | The Jewish Vegetarian Society in Jerusalem Filter by Tag 1863–1875 cholera pandemic | acrostic | Acrostic signature | על הגתית Al HaGitit | Alef b'Elul | Alphabetic Acrostic | animal protection | animal welfare | animals | anti-predatory | ba'alei ḥayyim | behemah | בהמות behemot | being human | Breslov | British Jewry | Compassion | crawling things | domesticated animals | earth | eco-conscious | ecoḥasid | אלול elul | English Translation | English vernacular prayer | epizootic contagion | first person | four worlds | Fourth Day of Creation | German Jewry | German vernacular prayer | חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov) | ḥayot | חסד Ḥesed | חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh | ḥeshbon nefesh | humility | insects | Italian Jewry | Jewish Women's Prayers | למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ | lev nishbar | Likutei Tefilot | lovingkindness | menschlekite | מזמור Mizmor | Needing Attribution | Needing Translation (into English) | Needing Source Images | neo-lurianic | New York City | North America | Pedagogical songs | Prayers as poems | predatory nature | Psalms 36 | Psalms 65 | Psalms 8 | Rosh Hashanah L'Baalei Ḥayyim | Shamir שמיר | שופר shofar | shofar blowing | תחינות teḥinot | the sixth month | The Worm | צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim | וידוי vidui | Yiddish songs | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter by Category Blessings After Eating | Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41) | Tehilim Book 2 (Psalms 42–72) | Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System | 🌐 Earth Day (22 April) | Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) | Epidemics & Pandemics | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim | Ḥanukkah | Kosher Slaughter | Roleplaying | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Seder Leil Rosh haShanah laBehemot | Shavuot | Sukkot | War
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The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.
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
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