Peulot (Actions)
Actions that bring it all together, in this case in the form of a ritual outline with plenty of space for you to make this your own.

  • Statement of Intent/Welcome

  • Cleanse + Ground & Center

  • Transition to Sacred Space/Time

  • Invocations/Welcoming (ancestors, more than human world, land, deity)

  • Telling of the story/reaffirming the covenant: What is shmita and why it matters

  • Release/close/end previous Shmita: Offer 7 Year reflections

    • Suggested Song: Dor Holech (pg XX Kohenet Siddur)

    • 7 years ago I was… (Age, Life Cycle, Shmita Awareness, Quality)

    • Now I am...(Age, Life Cycle, Shmita Awareness, Quality)

  • Havdalah

    • Blessings over wine, spices, and candle
  • Open next shmita cycle

    • Suggested Song: In the Dark, by Kohenet Bekah Starr

    • 7 years from now I will be…(Age, Life Cycle, Shmita Awareness, Quality)

  • 7 Blessings
    • Shabbat Amidah blessings - changing "Shabbat" to Shmita where appropriate
    • Light 7 Candles (preferably one of each color of the rainbow)

  • Sealing the Ritual

    • Song: Olam Chesed Yibaneh, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

    • All say: "In this world, in all the worlds we say amen"

  • Gratitudes (ancestors, more than human world, land, deity)

  • Transition to regular space/time

  • Ground & center

  • Statement of Completion

  • Kiddush: Blessing  and sharing wine/grape juice and challah (or other symbolic foods)


Booklet Section: Meditations