Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/ a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:43:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2015-5509b4bdv1_site_icon-250x250.png Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/shared/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/ 32 32 Exhortacion | Exhortation of Ḥakham Ishak Nieto (1740) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/exhortacion-exhortation-of-hakham-ishak-nieto-1740/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/exhortacion-exhortation-of-hakham-ishak-nieto-1740/#respond Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:29:12 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=33120

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/exhortacion-exhortation-of-hakham-ishak-nieto-1740/feed/ 0 תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול | Prayer for the New Moon of Elul, from the Tkhine of the Matriarchs by Seril Rappaport (ca. 18th c.) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-matriarchs-new-moon-elul/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-matriarchs-new-moon-elul/#respond Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:13:17 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=14039 The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women's Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. ]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-matriarchs-new-moon-elul/feed/ 0 Im Monat Ellul wenn der Schofer geblasen wird | In the month of Elul when the shofar is blown, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/im-monat-ellul-wenn-der-schofer-geblasen-wird-a-tehinah-by-yehoshua-heshil-miro-1829/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/im-monat-ellul-wenn-der-schofer-geblasen-wird-a-tehinah-by-yehoshua-heshil-miro-1829/#respond Sun, 20 Feb 2022 08:08:32 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=42694 בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №30 on pp. 39-40. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №30 on pp. 45-47. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №32 on pp. 48-50.]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

Click here to contribute a public reading you have written or selected for Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan.

]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/im-monat-ellul-wenn-der-schofer-geblasen-wird-a-tehinah-by-yehoshua-heshil-miro-1829/feed/ 0 Gebet im Monate Elul | Prayer for the Month of Elul, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/gebet-im-monate-elul-prayer-month-elul-fanny-neuda-1855/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/gebet-im-monate-elul-prayer-month-elul-fanny-neuda-1855/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:22:06 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=16631 firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women's gallery) in her husband's synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. The English translation provided here was lightly adapted from Rabbi Moritz Mayer's 1866 translation. ]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/gebet-im-monate-elul-prayer-month-elul-fanny-neuda-1855/feed/ 0 תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ אֶלוּל | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (1877) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-shabbat-mevorkhim-rosh-hodesh-elul/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-shabbat-mevorkhim-rosh-hodesh-elul/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:55:28 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=16607 Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Widow and Brothers Romm, Vilna 1877). English translation adapted slightly from Techinas: A Voice from the Heart "As Only A Woman Can Pray" by Rivka Zakutinsky (Aura Press, 1992). --A.N. Varady ]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

Click here to contribute a public reading you have written or selected for Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan.

]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/shabbat-mevorkhim/tkhine-shabbat-mevorkhim-rosh-hodesh-elul/feed/ 0 Explanation and ritual for the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/explanation-and-ritual-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot-new-years-day-for-animals/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/explanation-and-ritual-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot-new-years-day-for-animals/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:00:12 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=3498 tefillot -- prayers -- so too the Rosh haShanah la-Behemah challenges us to realize the holiness of the animals in our care in a time without tithes. The Jewish New Year's Day for Animals is a challenge to remind and rediscover what our responsibilities are to the animals who depend on us for their welfare. Are we treating them correctly and in accord with the mitsvah of tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim -- sensitivity to the suffering of living creatures? Have we studied and understood the depth of ḥesed -- lovingkindness -- expressed in the breadth of our ancestors teachings concerning the welfare of animals in Torah?haShanah la-Behemah is the day to reflect on our immediate or mediated relationships with domesticated animals, recognize our personal responsibilities to them, individually and as part of a distinct and holy people, and repair our relationships to the best of our ability. ]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

Click here to contribute a public reading you have written or selected for Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan.

]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/explanation-and-ritual-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot-new-years-day-for-animals/feed/ 5 A Blessing for the Bugs on the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals, Rosh Hashana la-Behemah, by Trisha Arlin https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/a-blessing-for-the-bugs-on-rosh-hodesh-elul-and-rosh-hashana-labehemot-by-trisha-arlin/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/a-blessing-for-the-bugs-on-rosh-hodesh-elul-and-rosh-hashana-labehemot-by-trisha-arlin/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2015 03:31:50 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=12177 Trisha Arlin: Words of Prayer and Intention on 14 August 2015. ]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/a-blessing-for-the-bugs-on-rosh-hodesh-elul-and-rosh-hashana-labehemot-by-trisha-arlin/feed/ 1 Kavvanah before Shofar Blowing on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah (the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals) https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/kavvanah-before-shofar-blowing-on-rosh-hodesh-elul-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/kavvanah-before-shofar-blowing-on-rosh-hodesh-elul-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:41:09 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=14280

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/kavvanah-before-shofar-blowing-on-rosh-hodesh-elul-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot/feed/ 1 Meat and Feathers: We Confess, a vidui for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah (the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals), by Trisha Arlin https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/meat-and-feathers-vidui-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot-on-rosh-hodesh-elul/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/meat-and-feathers-vidui-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot-on-rosh-hodesh-elul/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:42:50 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=16696 here. Elements of this vidui (confession) are derived from the Kavvanah before Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul for Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot (New Year's Day for Domesticated Animals).]]>

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

Click here to contribute a public reading you have written or selected for Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan.

]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/meat-and-feathers-vidui-for-rosh-hashanah-labehemot-on-rosh-hodesh-elul/feed/ 0 Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/blessing-for-the-month-of-elul-by-kohenet-ilana-joy-streit/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/blessing-for-the-month-of-elul-by-kohenet-ilana-joy-streit/#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:23:13 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=33270

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/blessing-for-the-month-of-elul-by-kohenet-ilana-joy-streit/feed/ 0 The Story of Elul, by Todd Greenberg https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/the-story-of-elul-by-todd-greenberg/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/the-story-of-elul-by-todd-greenberg/#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:38:33 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=52439

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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]]> https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/new-moon/elul/the-story-of-elul-by-todd-greenberg/feed/ 0 צֹנֶה אֵילִים כְּבָשִׂים וּרְחֵלִים | Tsoneh Eilim Kvasim uRḥelim — an ofan piyyuṭ for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/tsoneh-eilim-kvasim-urhelim-an-ofan-piyyut-for-rosh-hashanah-la-behemah-by-isaac-gantwerk-mayer/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/lunisolar/days-of-judgement-new-year-days/rosh-hashanah-labehemah/tsoneh-eilim-kvasim-urhelim-an-ofan-piyyut-for-rosh-hashanah-la-behemah-by-isaac-gantwerk-mayer/#respond Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:05:18 +0000 https://opensiddur.org/?p=63205

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul, the sixth month in the Jewish calendar.

Rosh Ḥodesh Elul also coincides with Rosh Hashanah la-Behemah, the New Year's Day for Animals (specifically, domesticated animals) -- a birthday for animals conceived in the previous year. The day marks the beginning of a season of introspection and repentance in the late summer or early autumn in anticipation of the Yamim Nora'im (Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshanah Rabbah), preparations for the prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret at the onset of the wet season.

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