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This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the praxis of planting vegetation.

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כַּוָּנָה לִפְנֵי עֲבוֹדָה בְּאַדְמַת הַקֹּדֶשׁ | Kavvanah before working with the holy soil of Erets Yisrael, by Rabbi Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi (ca. 1911)

A kavvanah for focusing one’s intention before working with the soil of Erets Yisrael. . . .

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionist, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, farming, Prayers for Planting, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, Problematic prayers, Shami, Yemenite Aliyah, Yemenite Jewry

Contributor(s): Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִילַּת הַנּוֹטֵעַ | Prayer for a Tree Planting in Israel, by Rav Ben-Tsiyon Meir Ḥai Uziel (before 1942)

This is the תפילת הנוטע (Prayer for Planting [trees]) by Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Ḥai Uziel. . . .

Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Planting

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionist, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, JNF, KKL, planting trees, Prayers for Planting, קקל Ḳeren Ḳayemet l'Yisrael (ḲḲL), תחינות teḥinot, Zionist Arbor Day Prayers

Contributor(s): Ben Tsiyon Meir Ḥai Uziel and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Closing Prayer for Arbor Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

This closing prayer for Arbor Day, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 86. . . .

Categories: 🇺🇸 Arbor Day (last Friday of April), Planting

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, planting trees, United States

Contributor(s): John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Opening Prayer on the Significance of Arbor Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

This opening prayer for Arbor Day, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 3-4 — as preface to a number of readings selected by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams for the day. . . .

Categories: 🇺🇸 Arbor Day (last Friday of April), Planting

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, planting trees, United States

Contributor(s): John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer for a] Tree Planting, by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1952)

A prayer for planting a tree or trees. . . .

Categories: 🇺🇸 Arbor Day (last Friday of April), Planting

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, North American Jewry, planting trees, Prayers for Planting

Contributor(s): Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלָּה לָעֵצִים עַל ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Prayer for the Trees of Erets Yisrael on Tu Bishvat, by Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel (2011)

In the wake of the continued uprooting of fruit trees and human settlements in the Land of Israel, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights shared the following petitionary prayer. . . .

Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Planting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecumenical prayers, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Progressive Zionism, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Anonymous and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

תְּפִילַּת הַנּוֹטֵעַ | Prayer for a Virtual Tree Planting in Israel, by Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen (2012)

This is the prayer for planting trees by the late chief rabbi of Haifa, Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen zt”l (1927-2016). . . .

Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Planting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Birkat haIlanot, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Haifa, planting trees, Prayers for Planting, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Intention for community garlic planting at the end of a harvest season, by Jess Berlin

Garlic is typically the last crop planted on a farm, it is planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. So you are leaving a legacy for next years farmers (which might be you). We begin by separating the garlic bulbs from the cloves, similar to separating people from their community. Then, once the individual (garlic cloves) are planted, they form new communities in the ground. Similar to the process that we are all going through. Leaving our community here on the farm and going out into the world to create new communities. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, Separation, Planting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Adamah Farm, ADVA Reunion, Garlic, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, Teva Learning Center, Until Next Time

Contributor(s): Daniel Landau (translation) and Jessica Berlin

תְּפִילַּת הַנּוֹטֵעַ | Prayer for a Tree Planting in Israel, by Zeev Kainan (Masorti Movement in Israel, 2018)

This prayer for planting was composed by Zeev Kainan for Tu biShvat (2018) for the Masorti Movement for Conservative Judaism in Israel. . . .

Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Planting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Masorti Movement, planting trees, Prayers for Planting, religious Zionist prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Trees, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): Ze'ev Kainan, the Masorti Movement in Israel and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Yom ha-Netiot planting ceremony in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel

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