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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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Additions to Piyyutim on the High Holidays for the Shemitah Year, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

Two suggestions for ḥazanim (cantors) and shliḥei tzibur on the High Holidays. . . .

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, היום תאמצנו Hayom T'amtsenu, פיוטים piyyuṭim

Contributor(s):

David Seidenberg and Neohasid·org

אחות קטנה במאה ה -21 | A 21st century “Aḥot Ḳetanah” (Little Sister), by Rabbi Dr. Raysh Weiss

A 21st century recasting of the iconic 13th century Spanish mystical Rosh haShanah piyyut. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, פיוטים piyyuṭim

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Raysh Weiss and Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)

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. . . .

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

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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. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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

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Menachem Creditor

A Prayer for the New Year (5781), by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

“A Prayer for the New Year (5781)” was first published by Rabbi Menachem Creditor online at his Facebook Page and shared with the Open Siddur Project through our Facebook discussion group. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, North America, Prayers for the New Year, תקון tiqqun, United States, weariness

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

תפלה לשליח ציבור | Hineni: The Prayer of the Shaliaḥ Tsibur, interpretive translation by Rabbi Oren Steinitz

Hineni – the leader’s prayer that opens the High Holy Days Mussaf has always been a challenge for me. While a dramatic moment in the service, it always seemed a little *too* grand to represent a prayer of humility. This is a version of it I wrote in an attempt to make myself more comfortable at that moment. –Rabbi Oren Steinitz . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., הנני hineni, interpretive translation, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, prayers of the shaliaḥ tsibbur, רשות reshut

Contributor(s):

Oren Steinitz and Unknown

Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei, by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

A soulful, playful, embodied, grounded poem for announcing the new moon of Tishrei, for Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei (otherwise known as Rosh HaShanah) and for the whole month. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei (תִּשְׁרֵי)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, תשרי זמן Tishrei Zman

Contributor(s):

Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

רַחֲמָנָא | Raḥamana di N’shaya — an Aramaic seliḥoth piyyut for biblical women by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

The Raḥamana piyyut is a litany beloved in Sephardic and Mizraḥi communities, a standard part of their Seliḥoth services throughout the month of Elul and the days of repentance. Traditionally it cites a list of Biblical men (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Pinhas, David, and Solomon) and asks to be remembered for their merit and their covenants, for the sake of “Va-yaŋabor” — the first word of Exodus 34:6, the introduction to the verses of the Thirteen Attributes recited in Seliḥoth services. This text instead uses Biblical women (Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel, Serach, Miriam, Deborah, Ruth, Hannah, and Esther). . . .

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aramaic, Biblical Women, egalitarian, פיוטים piyyuṭim, סליחות səliḥot, traditional egalitarian

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

The Sweeping Story of Rosh haShanah Musaf — in Color! by Rabbi Barry Kornblau

The major themes of the Rosh haShanah musaf liturgy, color coded with the three central blessings of the service presented comparatively in parallel columns. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Musaf Rosh Hashanah

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Barry Kornblau

עֲנֵֽנוּ‏ | Egalitarian Aneinu, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This is an egalitarian version of the Aneinu litany recited at the end of Seliḥot services, featuring equal representation for the women of the Tanakh and Talmud. . . .

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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, סליחות səliḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

A Blessing for the Bees, a New Year’s prayer for 5785 by Devorah Brous (FromSoil2Soul)

This prayer by Devorah Brous (fromsoil2soul), “A blessing for the bees (5785),” was first shared by the author on Shoreshshuk. The version here reflects some reordering of lines and other edits made by the author, shared also on Canvas. . . .

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Jewish Farmers

Contributor(s):

Devorah Brous

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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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