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A prayer for democracy and against tyranny

~ responding to the Jan 6th insurrection and to the invasion of Ukraine by Putin. And

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for all the prayers relevant to Israel's election on neohasid.

A Prayer For Voting

If you can't pray in a voting booth, where can you pray? And where would you need more to pray?

Borei N'fashot

The most ecological prayer in all of Judaism,
on an art card.

Shmitah Harachaman

Get neohasid's Shmitah liturgy for Birkat Hamazon.

Tefilah Lishlom Hamedinah v'Ha'arets | A prayer for the State and Land of Israel

Use this compassionate prayer for a democratic State of Israel, for the land, and for all her inhabitants, and adopt it in your community.

Kaddish for a Human Minyan

For understanding the depth of Kaddish, for honoring Creation, for including people who are not Jewish, for when you can find ten people but not ten Jews to support saying Kaddish.

Yedid Nefesh

Learn about the structure of Yedid Nefesh and how liturgy works.
You can also open and print a one page pdf of Yedid Nefesh based on Siddur Chaverim Kol Yisrael.

Haggadah of the Inner Seder

Use this haggadah to unlock the mysteries and hidden structure of the seder. Based on the Beit Midrash Ruach v'Lev session on "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Haggadah".

A Kavvanah for Bedikat Chametz

On the earth and soil and afra d'ara

How to count the omer!

Each day between the beginning of Passover and Shavuot gets counted, 49 days in all, 7 weeks of seven days. Here are the words we say and some of the meaning behind the ritual.

A simple Tu Bishvat Haggadah

An all-English simple haggadah for Tu Bishvat with intro.

Breaking Open the Abyss – on Tisha B'Av and the Gulf

When King David disturbs the foundation stone of the world, the waters of the t'hom, the abyss, rise up through the breach King David has made, threatening to destroy the world

The Panoply of Symbols for the Sefirot

A reference list of symbols for the Sefirot.

The Ultimate Text Crunching Sheet for Tu Bish'vat

Study, for many days or for one seder, some of the great Jewish and Kabbalistic texts on fruit, trees and the earth.

A Prayer for the Earth – Hebrew and English

Y'kum Purkan Lish'maya: A prayer for the earth, for use in your synagogue, minyan, or havurah; for Earth Day, Rainbow Day, Shabbat Noach, Shabbat Behar/Bechukotai, everyday.

Blessing the Sun

Once in 28 years – that's how often this blessing comes around. Here's a liturgy we used that weaves together Kabbalah and deep ecology, along with links to more resources.

Blessing from the first published Tu Bish'vat Seder

From the 16/17th century seder manual,

P'ri Eitz Hadar

, based on the Kabbalah of the four worlds. The original seder calls on us to bring blessing to all creation.

Hu Ya'aneinu (fathers and mothers) for Yom Kippur Eve and Selichot pdf

God Answered the Mothers too! Hu Ya'aneinu, "God will answer us", with verses for the mothers and the fathers together. PDF with linear Hebrew and English.

Hatarat Nedarim doc

A liturgy for the old custom of being released from vows before Rosh Hashanah, from Reb Zalman.

Hoshana Rabbah: new translation

The original Jewish earth prayers

An environmental Al Chet

For the sin of destroying God's creation...

Laments: A Fresh Translation of Eikhah

Downloadable, printable Lamentations for use on Tish'a B'Av, in PDF and Davkawriter formats, with linear translation and an afterword on theodicy and theology

Len Fellman's "transtropilation" of Eihkah

has been resurrected on opensiddur.org. Get the pdf of his ecletic English translation of Lamentations with trop!

Kinah LeKhurban Gan Eden

Richard Kaplan's eco-lament for Tisha B'Av

Between the Fires: Lag B'Omer, Flood Day and Rainbow Day

A liturgy for the day before Lag B'omer leading into Lag B'omer, related to global warming and the flood of Noah, which began on the 17th of Iyyar.

Once a year there is Jewish custom is to say a special blessing on flowering fruit trees. It happens in spring, especially during the Omer, but it's also a good teaching for Tu Bish'vat. You'll also find some other good tree texts here.

Longer meditations on Pri Etz Hadar

Imagine a Jewish practice which has the purpose of restoring all the species and creatures, and all the sparks they contain, to the fullness of blessing.