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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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O worship the King, all glorious above! — an adaptation in English verse of Psalms 104 by Sir Robert Grant (1827)

This is the poem by Sir Robert Grant known best from its incipit “O Worship the King,” as published posthumously under the title “Psalm ⅭⅣ” by his brother Charles Grant (Lord Glenelg) in Sacred Poems by the Late Right Hon. Sir Robert Grant (1839), pp. 33-35. It was first published without attribution as hymn №31 in the Appendix of Hymns for private devotion, selected and original (ed. Bethia Fuller-Maitland, 1827) on pages 206-207. It was first published with attribution as psalm №104 in Psalms and Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Worship (ed. Henry V. Elliott, 1835) on pages 34-35. Identified as an adaptation of Psalms 104 (and with five of its six stanzas) the hymn was included as №16 in the Union hymnal for Jewish worship (1914). Brian Hehn writes, “This hymn, one of Grant’s most popular, is a paraphrase of Psalm 104. It was originally thought to have been a rendering of William Kethe’s setting of the same psalm in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561. However, Episcopal hymnologist Raymond F. Glover contends that this is a misconception. He argues that the two settings are in the same meter only because they were written for the same psalm.”

Categories:

Rosh Ḥodesh, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags:

19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English poetry, English Romanticism, hymns of creation, Prayers as poems, Psalms 104

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Robert Grant

“Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin,” a prayer-poem by Miriam del Banco (1932)

The prayer-poem ““Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin”” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in her posthumously published anthology, Poetry and Prose (1932), p. 94-95.

Categories:

Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Miriam del Banco and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

New Year, a poem by Miriam del Banco (1932)

The poem “New Year” by Miriam del Banco (1858-1931) was included in her posthumously published anthology, Poetry and Prose (1932), p. 113-114.

Categories:

Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s):

Miriam del Banco and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

בַּשָּׁנָה הַבָּאָה | baShanah haBa’ah (Next Year), an elegy by Ehud Manor for his brother killed during the War of Attrition (1968)

“baShanah haBa’ah” (Next Year) by Ehud Manor written in 1968 in memory of his brother Yehudah.

Categories:

Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Mourning, Nirtsah, War

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., elegies, lamentation, Prayers as poems, קינות Ḳinōt, War of Attrition, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Unknown (translation), Ehud Manor and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer before Candle-lighting, by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Please God
Let me light
More than flame tonight.

More than wax and wick
and sliver stick of wood.
More than shallow stream of words
recited from a pocket book.

Categories:

Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Erev Pesaḥ, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., candle lighting, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, entering, fire, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, Light, potential, Prayers as poems, welcoming

Contributor(s):

Chaya Kaplan-Lester

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.

Just for a Moment, a prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2020)

A prayer-poem by Rabbi Menachem Creditor reflecting on the challenges of the year 2020 up till Rosh haShanah.

Categories:

Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags:

2020 Atlantic hurricane season, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., COVID-19 coronavirus, Prayers as poems, September 2020 Western United States wildfires

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

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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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