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the Shmitah Year (Earth’s Shabbat)

This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, the שְׁמִטָּה (Shmitah) year, occurring every seven years.

Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a translation of an existing prayer for the Shmitah year.

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עֲנֵנוּ | Aneinu, Answer us: a seliḥah in advance of the Shmitah year by Emmy Cohen

After struggling with the requests in Aneinu, read during Seliḥot, I composed a list of requests and questions for this upcoming Shmitah year. . . .

Categories: the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ḥeshbon nefesh, סליחות səliḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s): Emmy Cohen

הָרַחֲמָן עַל שְׁנַת הַשְׁמִיטָה | A Haraḥaman for the Shmitah Year in the Birkat haMazon, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

This Haraḥaman (prayer to the merciful or compassionate One) for the Shmitah or sabbatical year can be added to Birkat Hamazon (blessing after meals) during the whole Shmitah year, in order to remember and open our hearts to the sanctity of the land. Say it right before the Haraḥaman for Shabbat, since Shmitah is the grand shabbat, and right after the paragraph beginning with Bamarom (a/k/a, Mimarom). . . .

Categories: Blessings After Eating, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, HaRaḥaman

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

Additions to the Rosh Hashanah Seder Akhilat haSimanim for the Shmitah Year, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

Many people eat special foods as part of a mini-seder at the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah meal and invoke blessings for the year as they eat them. This year, you can add figs to your Rosh Hashanah seder (apples and honey, or apples, dates, beets, etc.) and recite with this kavvanah (intention). . . .

Categories: Symbolic Foods, the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat), Seder Akhilat haSimanim

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid

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

Additions to Piyyutim on the High Holidays for the Shemitah Year, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

Two suggestions for ḥazanim (cantors) and shliḥei tzibur on the High Holidays. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, היום תאמצנו Hayom T'amtsenu, פיוטים piyyutim

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

בַּעָל חוֹבֵנוּ | Ba’al Ḥoveinu, a piyut for Seliḥot on the advent of the Shmitah year by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

This short piyut touches on these four themes related to Shmitah: release of debts, the rights of the land, the rights of wild animals (who share our food during Shmitah), and the freeing of slaves. The piyut would fit as part of Seliḥot before Rosh haShanah and during Yom Kippur. . . .

Categories: the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, סליחות səliḥot, שמיטה shmitah

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

לִשְׁמֹר הַשָּׁנָה שֶׁל שְׁמִטָּה | Candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, Shabbat, and Yom Tov during the Shmitah Year, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Four blessings to recite upon commencing the Shmitah year in candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, and to add to subsequent shabbat and festival candlelightings. . . .

Categories: the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat)

Tags: blessings, candle lighting, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, entering, interbreathing, kindling

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow

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"Shmita sign." A resident of Holon, Israel, announcing the fruits on the trees in his backyard are hefker (ownerless property) during the year of Shmita, and that anyone can enter and harvest them. עברית: תושב חולון מודיע כי הפירות על העצים בחצרו הם הפקר לרגל שנת שמיטה. (credit: Drork, Public Domain.)

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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