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Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the festival of Shemini Atseret and Simḥat Torah.

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Actions de graces pour la récolte et Prière pour demander un bon hiver | Thanksgiving for the Harvest and a Prayer for a Favorable Winter, a paraliturgical prayer for rain by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1848)

This is a paraliturgical prayer for rain during the wet season, read during the festival of Sukkot, following in the tradition of Yiddish tkhines, albeit written in French. The prayer was included by Rabbi Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery in their opus, אמרי לב Prières d’un Coeur Israelite (first edition) published in 1848 by the Société Consistoriale de Bons Livres. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), the Wet Season (Fall & Winter)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, גשם geshem, hazon et hakol, paraliturgical tefilat geshem, Prayers for Precipitation, Rain, water is life

Contributor(s): Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Tefillat Geshem, a paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret by Rabbi Louis Polisson

A paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), the Wet Season (Fall & Winter)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, גשם geshem, interpretive translation, paraliturgical tefilat geshem, Prayers for Precipitation, Rain, rainfall, water cycle, water is life

Contributor(s): Louis Polisson

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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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