Contributor(s): Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D.
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Categories:  the Wet Season (Fall & Winter), Sukkot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)
Tags:  North America, פיוטים piyyutim, Imahot, Matriarchs, Rain, Geshem, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers for Precipitation, גשם 
The time of Sukkot is a time of fullness and generosity, but also a time to pray for the coming season. Shemini Atzeret, the festival when we pray for rain, is an expression of our need for water, which in the Jewish tradition symbolizes life, renewal, and deliverance. Tefillat Geshem, a graceful fixture of the Ashkenazic liturgy, invokes the patriarchs as exemplars of holiness and model recipients of God’s love. This prayer uses water as a metaphor for devotion and faith, asking that God grant us life-sustaining rain. While its authorship is unknown, it is sometimes attributed to Elazar Kallir, the great liturgist who lived sometime during the first millenium. Each year, we are reminded of our people’s connection to the patriarchs and to the rhythms of water, spiritual and physical sources of life, through this medieval piyyut. While we know that rain is a natural process, formal thanksgiving for water as a source of life, energy, and beauty reminds us that our Creator is the source of our physical world and its many wonders. . . .
A paraliturgical prayer for rain on Shemini Atseret. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ט בכסלו ה׳תשע״ח (2017-12-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Shabbat Mevorkhim, Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet
Tags: 19th century C.E., judgement, תחינות tkhines, Rain, new moon, שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer, in the merit of our ancestors, Mazal G'di, Capricorn, winter, Tribe of Dan, Uriel, Bilhah, Avraham Avinu, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh 
To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ טֵבֵת (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet”) which appeared in תחנות מקרא קודש (Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Widow and Brothers Romm, Vilna 1877). English translation adapted slightly from Techinas: A Voice from the Heart “As Only A Woman Can Pray” by Rivka Zakutinsky (Aura Press, 1992). –A.N. Varady . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron
Shared on כ״ב בתשרי ה׳תשע״ט (2018-09-30) — under the following terms: Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works)
Categories: the Wet Season (Fall & Winter), Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)
Tags: 19th century C.E., Rain, 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, Prayers for Precipitation, hazon et hakol, paraliturgical tefilat geshem, water is life 
This is a paraliturgical prayer for rain during the wet season, read during the festival of Sukkot, following in the tradition of Yiddish tkhines, albeit written in French. The prayer was included by Rabbi Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery in their opus, אמרי לב Prières d’un Coeur Israelite (first edition) published in 1848 by the Société Consistoriale de Bons Livres. . . .
A prayer of thanksgiving for when it rains in a land needing rainfall. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jacob Chatinover (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ח בניסן ה׳תש״פ (2020-04-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: the Wet Season (Fall & Winter), Dangerous Storms & Floods
Tags: Rain, Floods, 55th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., rainfall, Italian Jewry, economic distress, harvest loss 
A prayer in the event of excessive raining causing economic hardship, from Mantua in 1729. . . .
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