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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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Into the Tomb of Ages Past, a hymn for Rosh haShanah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Into the tomb of ages past,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “New Year (Roshe Hashannah)” as Hymn 59 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 61-62.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., AABBCC rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Morn breaks upon Moriah’s height! – a hymn for Rosh haShanah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Morn breaks upon Moriah’s height!” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “New Year (Roshe Hashannah)” as Hymn 60 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 61-62.

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Aqédat Yitsḥaq, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, עקדת יצחק Akeidat Yitsḥaq, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Am Tage vor dem neuen Jahre oder dem Versöhnungsfeste, wenn man die Gräber besucht | [Prayer] for when you visit the graves on Erev Rosh haShanah or Yom Kippur before the Seudah Mafseket, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer offered on erev Rosh haShanah or Yom Kippur to visit the local Jewish cemetery.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, cemetery prayers, erev yom kippur, German vernacular prayer, memento mori, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, ימים נוראים yamim noraim

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Betrachtung am Neujahrsund Versöhnungstage | Meditation on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A meditation on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippurim.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, ימים נוראים yamim noraim

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

[Prayer] for the Eve of the New Year, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for a woman preparing herself on Erev Rosh haShanah.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet eines jungen Mädchens am Neujahrsfeste | Prayer of a young girl on Rosh haShanah, by Lise Tarlau (1907)

“Gebet eines jungen Mädchens am Neujahrsfeste” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 126-128.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שֶׁהֶחֱיָֽנוּ | Sheheḥiyanu, a rhyming translation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

This translation of the blessing sheheḥiyanu was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published under the title “Blessing for Rosh-Hashanah” in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 11.

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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., appreciation, blessings, rhyming translation, שהחינו shehiyanu

Contributor(s):

Jessie Ethel Sampter and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[A Prayer for] Justice (CCAR 1923)

“Justice” is the ninth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 35-37.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical seliḥot, teḥinot in English, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Rosh Hashanah—The New Year, a prayer for clarity in self-perception (CCAR 1923)

“Rosh Hashanah~The New Year” is the eighth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 31-34.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai netsor, paraliturgical seliḥot, teḥinot in English, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

“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.

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

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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.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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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)

Repentance (CCAR 1951)

“Repentance” is the thirty-sixth prayer in the “Meditations” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 200. It is one of only three new prayers found in this section (the others having been reprinted from CCAR’s 1923 collection of teḥinot).

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

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, determinism, English vernacular prayer, self, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Lead Us, Lord — a prayer for God’s Guidance (CCAR 1951)

“Lead Us, Lord” (also called, “God’s Guidance”) is the thirty-seventh prayer in the “Meditations” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 201. It is one of only three new prayers found in this section (the others having been reprinted from CCAR’s 1923 collection of teḥinot).

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Yom Kippur Qatan, Rosh Ḥodesh, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Rosh Ḥodesh Av (אָב), Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet (טֵבֵת)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Crowning, English vernacular prayer, leadership

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

The Open Door of the Heart, a prayer by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“The Open Door of the Heart” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), pp. 43-44, from where this prayer was transcribed.

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

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., exhortation, Prayers for Praying, רשויות reshuyot, self-care, תשובה teshuvah, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Rosh haShanah, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“New Years Prayer” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 66, from where this prayer was transcribed.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers for the New Year

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the New Year, by Lilian Helen Montagu

This undated “Prayer for the New Year” by the Hon. Lily H. Montagu (1873-1963) from the archives of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, was published in, Lily Montagu: Sermons, Addresses, Letters, and Prayers (ed. Ellen M. Umansky, 1985), pp. 350.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, הזכרת נשמות hazkarat neshamot

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu 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.

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

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

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

Between the Fires: A Kavvanah for Lighting Candles of Commitment, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (the Shalom Center)

“Between the Fires: A Prayer for lighting Candles of Commitment” was composed by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, drawing on traditional midrash about the danger of a Flood of Fire, and the passage from Malachi.

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Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Erev Pesaḥ, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Sukkot, Yom Kippur, Ecotastrophes

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., candle lighting, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, North America

Contributor(s):

Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center

מִי שֶׁעָנָה…הוּא יַעֲנֵֽנוּ | Mi She’anah… Hu Ya’anenu — A Seliḥah for Yom Kippur (egal adaptation by Lisa Exler and Rabbi Julia Andelman, 2004)

This egalitarian adaptation of the Me she’Ana seliḥah for the season of Teshuvah was made by Julia Andelman and Lisa Exler in September 2004.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., עננו anenu, Avot and Imahot, egalitarian, in the merit of our ancestors, מי שענה Mi She’anah, North America, סליחות səliḥot, traditional egalitarian, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Rabbi Julia Andelman, Lisa Exler and Unknown

Peas on Earth, a song by the Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center (Fall 2010)

A pun filled ditty by the Fall 2010 Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center.

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, humor, peace, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, punning, Teva Learning Alliance, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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