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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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הושׁענות | Hoshanot for Creation, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

A supplemental Hoshanot liturgy for Sukkot confessing a selection of humanity’s crimes against creation.

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, הקפות haḳafot, Hoshana Rabbah, הושענות hoshanot, North America

Contributor(s):

Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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

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

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

הושענא לתיקון ולנחמה | Hoshana for Healing and Consolation, by Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx

A supplemental hoshana (prayer for salvation) for healing and consolation for the sake of true love, needed blessings, rainfall in a timely fashion, paths and their repair, mountains and their crossing, goals and objectives, lasting memories, good dreams, cosmic goodness, etc.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפות haḳafot, Hoshana Rabbah, הושענות hoshanot, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Dalia Marx and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Hoshanot Liturgy for the Climate Crisis, adapted by R’ Ezra Weinberg from the words of Greta Thunberg

The words of Greta Thunberg adapted for a prayer for intervention in the anthropogenic climate crisis, for a Honshana ritual for Sukkot.

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Sukkot, Ecotastrophes, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, climate crisis, English vernacular prayer, global climate change, הושענות hoshanot, mesostic

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Ezra Weinberg

Seven Hoshanot for Creation, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

A litany of hoshanot for use in a ritual prayer circle march on the festival of Sukkot.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, Needing Translation (into Hebrew)

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David Seidenberg and Neohasid·org

Hosha-na for Our Planet, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid·org)

A litany of hoshanot for use in a ritual prayer circle march on the festival of Sukkot.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., alphabetic mesostic, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, הושענות hoshanot, mesostic, Northampton, United States

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David Seidenberg and Neohasid·org

הוֹשִׁיעָה נָא לשנת תשפ״ה | Hosha-na for Rebuilding, Sukkot 5785 — by Shoshana Michael Zucker

A Hoshana for Sukkot 5785 with a forward-looking perspective because Sukkot is a time for building, even if that building is fragile. It was written for the weekday minyan at Kehillat Hod veHadar.

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Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., הושענות hoshanot, religious Zionist prayers

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Shoshana Michael Zucker

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