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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes // 🌔︎ Prayers for the Moon, Month, and Festival Calendar // Prayers for the Moon's Renewal //  Rosh Ḥodesh Marḥeshvan (מַרְחֶשְׁוָן)This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, Rosh Ḥodesh Marḥeshvan, the eighth month in the Jewish calendar. Explaining the etymology of the name, Shlomo Zuckier writes at the Lehrhaus, “Like most Jewish months, Marḥeshvan adopts a Babylonian or Canaanite name, as the [Talmud] Yerushalmi tells us (find y. Rosh Hashana 1:2: אמר רבי חנינה שמות חדשי’ עלו בידם מבבל.) Those names usually have a particular, often seasonal meaning, like the Canaanite name for this month, “Bul” (the meaning of this name, which appears in the Bible, is controversial). But the Akkadian-Babylonian name Marḥeshvan that we know and love is a lot more boring. Marḥeshvan (מַרְחֶשְׁוָן) is an alternate version of the phrase Werach Shamnu (ורח שמנ), generated by the fluidity between the labials M-מ and W-ו in two places. Both versions mean, very simply, “the Eighth Month” (in Hebrew represented as ירח שמיני), as Marḥeshvan is, indeed, the eighth month when counting from Nisan!” Click here to contribute a public reading you have written or selected for Rosh Ḥodesh Marḥeshvan. Filter by Name Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | David Seidenberg | Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) Filter by Tag Binyamin | eco-conscious | ecoḥasid | English vernacular prayer | four worlds | in the merit of our ancestors | Mazal Aqrav | Needing Source Images | new moon | Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l | paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh | paraliturgical teḥinot | Raḥel | school of the ARI z"l | Scorpio | שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim | תחינות teḥinot | תחינות tkhines | Trees | Vilna | Yiddish vernacular prayer | 19th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
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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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