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Prayers for the Sun’s Renewal

“…May the light of the Moon (הַלְּבָנָה ha-levanah, lit. the “white one”) be like the light of the Sun (הַחַמָּה ha-ḥamah, lit. the “hot one”) and like the light of the primaeval seven days of creation, like it was before she was diminished, as it says “And Elohim formed the two great lights” (Genesis 1:16).” —from the Ḳiddush Levanah (after the story related by Rebbi Shimon ben Pazi in Chullin 60b.2-4)

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עִם שָׁמֶשׁ | At Sunrise, a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1903)

The poem, “Im Shamesh” (At Sunrise) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik in June 1903. . . .

Categories: Morning Baqashot, Prayers for the Sun's Renewal

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Light, modern hebrew poetry, Prayers as poems, the sun

Contributor(s): the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Leonard Victor Snowman, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

ברכת החמה | Kavvanah for the Blessing for the Sun, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org, 2009)

We come here ready to fulfill the Creator’s commandment to give blessing for the Sun’s creation and in this year we recognize that the abundance of blessing which Earth receives from the Sun depends on the health of the Skies, which is in human hands for the first time in any generation in all the years of blessing the Sun, from the beginning of the world. . . .

Categories: Prayers for the Sun's Renewal

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, life, photosynthesis, sol, solar, the sun

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and Neohasid [dot] org

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