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the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (21 December)

the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (21 December)

This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs written for, or relevant to, Tequfat heḤoref — the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. Most years, Tequfat heḤoref falls in the month of Tevet, although some years, due to a recent leap year, it falls in the month of Kislev.

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תהלים קל״ט | Psalms 139, a mizmor by David with verses attributed to Adam haRishon for the Winter Solstice

A well-known midrash explaining the universality of the Kalends festival beginning after the Winter Solstice attributes this psalm to Adam haRishon, the primordial Adam, as they describe being knitted together within the Earth in Psalms 139:13-16. In the Roman calendar, the calends or kalends (Latin: kalendae) is the first day of every month. Named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, and derived from ianua, “door,” January began with the first crescent moon after the winter solstice, marking the natural beginning of the year. Marcus Terentius Varro, in his Res Rusticae (37 BCE) divided the agricultural year into eight parts. In the final part beginning on the winter solstice, no hard work was to be done outdoors. . . .

Categories: Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (21 December)

Tags: זאת חנוכה Zot Ḥanukkah, Calends, Kalendes, קלנדס Ḳalends, מזמור Mizmor, Psalms 139, solstice, winter

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text, David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

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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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