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This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the pilgrimage festival of סֻכּוֹת Sukkot. (In some older English translations, Sukkot is referred to as the Festival of "Tabernacles"). The seven day festival culminates with Hoshanah Rabba, the last of the three high holy days of atonement preceding Shemini Atseret upon which the Tefilat Geshem (prayer for rain) is offered for the fertility of all life on Earth and the resulting health of all peoples.

The origin of Ḥanukkah underscores the significance of these festivals. During the Seleucid Greek occupation of Jerusalem in the 160s BCE, Sukkot and Shemini Atseret could not properly be celebrated in the second Temple. As a result, when the Temple was retaken by the Maccabees after the rainy season had already begun, the festival of Ḥanukkah was born with many of Sukkot and Shemini Atseret's rain and temple-offering oriented symbolism transformed to that of light and the temple illumination.

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אַאֲמִיר אוֹתְךָ סֶֽלָה | Aamir Otekha Selah, an ofan piyyut for Sukkot by Elazar ben Qallir (rhymed translation by Alice Lucas 1894)

This is the piyyut, “Aamir Otekha Selah” by Elazar ben Qallir for Sukkot, as translated into rhyming English verse by Alice Montefiore Lucas, first published in her anthology of versified translations Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894). Her translation was later set opposite Qallir’s Hebrew text in Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Ḥag haSukkot (ed. Arthur Davis & Herbert Adler, 1908).

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Sukkot

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44th century A.M., 7th century C.E., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, English vernacular prayer, ofanim, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation) and Elazar ben Qallir

אַז הָיְתָה חֲנָיַת סֻכּוֹ | Az Haytah Ḥanayat Sukō (Of yore, abode His dwelling place), a qerovah piyyuṭ by Elazar Kalir for the first day of Sukkot (translated by Elsie Davis)

This is the piyyut “Az Haytah Ḥanayat Sukō (Of yore, abode His dwelling place,)” a qerovah piyyut by Elazar Kalir for the first day of Sukkot, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Sukkot, Avodat Ḥag ha-Sukkot (1908), pp. 212.

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Sukkot

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45th century A.M., 7th century C.E., קרובות ḳerovot, פיוטים piyyuṭim

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Elazar ben Qallir

בְּנֵי עָפָר מִי מָנָה | B’nei Afar Mi Manah (Thy sons—the dust of Jacob who hath told?), a zulat piyyuṭ for the first day of Sukkot (translated by Elsie Davis)

This is the piyyut “Az K’einei Avadim (As slaves, with eyes beseeching,…)” by an unknown paytan for the seventh circuit of the Hoshana Rabba service (on the seventh and final day of Sukkot), published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Sukkot, Avodat Ḥag ha-Sukkot (1908), pp. 183.

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Sukkot

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הושענות hoshanot, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, זולת zulat

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Unknown

כְּהשַֽׁעְתָּ אֵלִים | Kehoshata Élim (Savior of mighty ones…), a hoshana piyyuṭ for the second day of Sukkot by Elazar Kilir (translated by Elsie Davis)

This is the piyyut “Kehoshata Elim (Savior of mighty ones…)” by Eleazar Kalir for the hoshanot on the second day of Sukkot, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Sukkot, Avodat Ḥag ha-Sukkot (1908), pp. 144-145.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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45th century A.M., 7th century C.E., הושענות hoshanot, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Elazar ben Qallir

ליקוטי תפילות א:קמה | Prayer for Sukkot (Liqutei Tefilot Ⅰ:145), by Reb Nosson Sternhartz of Nemyriv adapted from the teachings of Rebbe Naḥman (ca. 1820s)

A prayer for Sukkot linking the theme of home building and receiving Torah with a warning not to eat animals and to extend ones compassion to all creatures.

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Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Sukkot, Kosher Slaughter

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., animal welfare, animals, anti-predatory, being human, Breslov, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov), Likutei Tefilot, menschlekite

Contributor(s):

Noson Sternhartz of Nemyriv and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

How Desolate Thy Fields and Vales, a hymn for Sukkot by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“How desolate thy fields and vales,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Tabernacles (Sucote)” as Hymn 64 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 66-67.

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Sukkot

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

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

Rude are the Tabernacles Now, a hymn for Hoshana Rabbah by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Rude are the Tabernacles now,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Tabernacles (Sucote)” as Hymn 65 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 67-68.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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

Contributor(s):

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

Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Feast of Tabernacles (סוכות), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Feast of Tabernacles (סכות)” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 35.

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Sukkot

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

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Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] An den ersten Tagen des Laubhüttenfestes | [A prayer] on the first days of Sukkot by Fanny Neuda (1855)

As part of our ongoing project creating a new digital edition of Fanny Neuda’s collection of tkhines in German, Stunden Der Andacht (1855), we are setting her prayers (for the first time ever) side by side with that of her work’s first English translation.

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] Am Laubhüttenfest beim Kreisgang mit dem Lulaw und Esrog | [Prayer] on Sukkot at the Haḳafot with the Lulav & Etrog, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

Herr des Weltalls, reich geschmückt mit deinen Gaben und Segnungen hast du die Natur. Das Thal mit seinem üppigen Grün, der Berg mit seinem Kranz von Wäldern, das Gefilde mit seiner lachenden Frucht ist ein Erzeugnis; deiner Gnade, zum Segen deiner Menschenkinder, zur Nahrung ihres Leibes, zur Stillung ihrer Bedürfnisse, zur Ergötzung ihres Auges, zum Balsam ihrer Wunden; und kein Blättchen ist so klein, kein Grashalm so niedrig in dem weiten Reiche der Natur, daß es nicht wohlthuende heilsame Kräfte für uns enthielte.

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] An den letzten Tagen des Laubhüttenfestes | [A prayer] on the last days of Sukkot, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

This is Fanny Neuda’s “Prayer for the final days of Sukkot,” faithfully transcribed and proofread with the help of German Wikisource contributors from Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), p. 66.

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the First Day of Sukkot, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for a woman celebrating the first yontef of Sukkot.

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Sukkot

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

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Public Repetition of the Shaḥarit Amidah for Sukkot, by Rabbi Max Landsberg (1884)

This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s public repetition of the shaḥarit festival amidah for Sukkot as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 21-28 with a unique prayer for Sukkot found on pp. 48-49.

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Sukkot

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Public Amidah

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Max Landsberg

עַל נְטִילַת לוּלָב | Blessing Over the Lulav, a rhyming translation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

This rhyming paraphrase of the blessing before waving the lulav on Sukkot was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 17.

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Sukkot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ארבה מנים arba minim, blessings, rhyming translation

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Jessie Ethel Sampter and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Sukkot Prayer [for Jews in the United States], by Rabbi Norman Salit (ca. 1920s)

This untitled prayer was written by Rabbi Norman Salit and published in Rabbi Jacob Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 35-36 (in the section titled “Prayers for Succoth”).

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Sukkot, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Americanism, bigotry, liberty

Contributor(s):

Norman Salit and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Pilgrim March, a hymn for Sukkot by Angie Irma Cohon (1921)

“The Pilgrim March” by Angie Irma Cohon is a hymn for Sukkot published in her תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 22.

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Sukkot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns

Contributor(s):

Angie Irma Cohon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

God’s Bounty, a prayer for Sukkot (CCAR 1923)

“God’s Bounty” is the seventeenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 61-63. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume.

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Sukkot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., divine abundance, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

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

[A prayer for] Sukkot—Festival of Tabernacles (CCAR 1923)

“Succoth—Feast of Tabernacles” is the eighteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 64-67. Unfortunately, we do not yet know of a resource providing clear attribution of authorship for any of the prayers in this volume.

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Sukkot

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., divine abundance, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

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

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