Planting • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the praxis of planting vegetation.
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תְּפִילַּת הַנּוֹטֵעַ | Prayer for a Tree Planting in Israel, by Zeev Kainan (2018)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Daniel Landau (translation), Ze'ev Kainan and Masorti Movement in Israel

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Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Planting

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

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

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

Contributor(s):

Daniel Landau (translation) and Jessica Berlin

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Congregation & Community, Planting, Separation

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Until Next Time, ADVA Reunion, Garlic, 21st century C.E., Adamah Farm, 58th century A.M., Jewish Farming, Teva Learning Center

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

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Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Planting

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

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

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

Contributor(s):

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

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

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham Samuel Soltes

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National Arbor Day (last Friday of April), Planting

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

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

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

Contributor(s):

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

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National Arbor Day (last Friday of April), Planting

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

National Arbor Day (last Friday of April), Planting

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

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. . . .