tagged: Prayers of Jewish Farmers • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

A Blessing for the Bees, a New Year’s prayer for 5785 by Devorah Brous (FromSoil2Soul)

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This prayer by Devorah Brous (fromsoil2soul), “A blessing for the bees (5785),” was first shared by the author on Shoreshshuk. . . .

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

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Jessica Berlin

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. . . .

📄 סדר עבודת הלב שחרית | Seder Avodat Lev Shaḥarit: Service of the Heart, by the farmers of the Adamah Fellowship

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Sarah Chandler, Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

The prayer/songsheet used for the Avodat Lev dawn prayer service of the farmers in the Adamah Fellowship on the campus of the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut. . . .

Peas on Earth, a song by the Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center (Fall 2010)

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Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A pun filled ditty by the Fall 2010 Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center. . . .

כַּוָּנָה לִפְנֵי עֲבוֹדָה בְּאַדְמַת הַקֹּדֶשׁ | Kavvanah before working with the holy soil of Erets Yisrael, by Rabbi Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi (ca. 1911)

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Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A kavvanah for focusing one’s intention before working with the soil of Erets Yisrael. . . .