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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, the New Year’s Day for All of Creation — marking the beginning of the seventh month and its ensemble of festival days leading towards the commencement of the rainy season in the Northern Hemisphere. (Rosh haShanah l’Maaseh Bereshit coincides with Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei.)

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התרת נדרים | Hatarat Nedarim: The Release of Vows, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Almost everyone who is Jewish knows that Kol Nidre is about releasing vows and has participated in the ceremony. Few know the parallel ritual done in small groups before Rosh Hashanah. Traditionally, right before Rosh Hashanah one performs this simple ritual with three friends, each in turn becoming the petitioner, while the other three act as the beit din, the judges in a court. The ritual is a wonderful way to enter the holidays as well as to prepare oneself for what will happen on Yom Kippur. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

Tags: beit din, ecoḥasid, friends, judgement, Renewal, vows

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz [№1] | On the day before the New Year in the burial ground [№1], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №104 on pp. 207-208. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., cemetery prayers, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, memento mori, תחינות teḥinot, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz [№2] | On the day before the New Year in the burial ground [№2], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Desselben Inhalts [Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz №2]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №105 on pp. 208-209. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet am Tage vor Neujahr und am Tage vor dem Versöhnungsfeste | Prayer on the day before Rosh haShanah and on the day before Yom Kippur, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Gebet am Tage vor Neujahr und am Tage vor dem Versöhnungsfeste” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №133 on pp. 249-252. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht | Prayers said at various points as you circumambulate the burial ground, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №103 on pp. 202-207. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., cemetery prayers, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, in the merit of our ancestors, Jewish Women's Prayers, memento mori, ḳever mesten, תחינות teḥinot, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

A Ten-Step, Four-Worlds, One-Earth Tashlikh, by Avi Dolgin

Avi Dolgin shares his mindful practice for maintaining “tashlikh consciousness” in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation, Tashlikh

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, four worlds, תשליך tashlikh, Teva Learning Center, water

Contributor(s): Avi Dolgin

ודוי | Vidui meditation, by Danny Cohen

Vidui means acknowledgment. It is not about self-flagellation or blame, but about honesty, coming into contact with our lives, our patterns and experiences, and ultimately about teshuva and learning. In contacting the pain and suffering which our modes of being have given rise to, our regret can help us to willfully divest ourselves of them and awaken the yearning for those modes of being which are life-affirming, supportive of wholeness, connection, integrity, and flourishing. With each one we tap on our heart, touching the pain and closed-heartedness we have caused, and simultaneously knocking on the door that it may open again. . . .

Categories: Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation, Self-Reflection

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acknowledgment, acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, אשמנו Ashamnu, integrity, paraliturgical vidui, repentance, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s): Daniel Yoel Cohen

The Offering: A Tashlikh Prayer, by Rabbi Jill Hammer

Today I turned my heart toward the new year and wrote a prayer-poem for Tashlikh, the Rosh haShanah ritual of casting bread or stones into the water to cast off one’s past wrongdoings. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation, Tashlikh

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, תשליך tashlikh, תשובה teshuvah

Contributor(s): Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D.

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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

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