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Kavvanah before Shofar Blowing on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah (the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals), by Aharon Varady

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady
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Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul
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שופר shofar, animal welfare, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim, בהמות behemot, אלול elul, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, animal protection, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., shofar blowing, חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, the sixth month

The text of this ritual shofar blowing for Rosh Ḥodesh Elul on Rosh haShanah La-Behemah developed as part of the annual ceremony taking place at the dairy barn on the campus of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center beginning in 2009 under the auspices of Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality and the Adamah Farm & Fellowship. The first Rosh haShanah ritual ceremony was co-developed by Rabbi Jill Hammer and Kohenet Sarah Chandler. My contribution of the kavvanah came a year later in 2010. The text presented here was built upon that ceremony and was presented first at the Hazon Detroit Jewish Food Festival in 2016. . . .

Gebet im Monate Elul | Prayer for the Month of Elul, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda, Wikisource Contributors (proofreading) and Moritz Mayer (translation)
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Shabbat Mevorkhim, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul
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19th century C.E., אלול elul, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry, חשבון הנפש Ḥeshbon HaNefesh, the sixth month

This is the prayer for the month of Elul included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. The English translation provided here was lightly adapted from Rabbi Moritz Mayer’s 1866 translation. . . .

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Kavvanah before Shofar Blowing on Rosh Ḥodesh Elul for Rosh haShanah la-Behemah (the Jewish New Year’s Day for Animals), by Aharon Varady

Gebet im Monate Elul | Prayer for the Month of Elul, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)