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עננו | Aneinu, Answer us, a seliḥah in advance of the Shemita year by Emmy Cohen

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Shared on כ״ח באלול ה׳תשע״ד (2014-09-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories: The Shmita Year (Earth's Shabbat)
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After struggling with the requests in Aneinu, read during Selichot, I composed a list of requests and questions for this upcoming Shmita year. . . .

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

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Shared on כ״ט באלול ה׳תשע״ד (2014-09-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Blessings After Eating, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, The Shmita Year (Earth's Shabbat)
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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 Harachaman for Shabbat, since Shmitah is the grand shabbat, and right after the paragraph beginning with Bamarom (a/k/a, Mimarom). . . .

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

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Shared on ד׳ בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-31) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, The Shmita Year (Earth's Shabbat)
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Two suggestions for ḥazanim (cantors) and shliḥei tzibur on the High Holidays. . . .

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

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Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Symbolic Foods, The Shmita Year (Earth's Shabbat)
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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). . . .