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A Ḥanukah Madrikh by Chajm Guski

Just in time for Ḥanukah, Chajm Guski shares a חנוכה מדריך (Ḥanukah Madrikh), Handbook for Ḥanukah, with a Deutsch translation and transliteration of the blessings on lighting the Ḥanukiah, the kavanah, HaNerot HaLalu, and the piyyut, Maoz Tzur. . . . → Read More: A Ḥanukah Madrikh by Chajm Guski

הַמַּפִּיל | A Parent’s Prayer for the Safe Sleep of their Newborn Child by Aurora Mendelsohn

Aurora Mendelsohn shares her adaptation of Hamapil, the blessing recited just before sleep with the recitation of the Sh’ma.

This is a prayer for parents to say for safe sleep for their newborn children. It is based almost entirely on the longer form of the traditional prayers before sleep. Because of gender there are . . . → Read More: הַמַּפִּיל | A Parent’s Prayer for the Safe Sleep of their Newborn Child by Aurora Mendelsohn

יִגְדַּל | Yigdal by Daniel ben Judah (translation by Chajm Guski)

Chajm Guski shares with a public domain declaration a new German translation of the famous piyyut, Yigdal, by Daniel ben Judah Dayyan. Yigdal (Hebrew: יִגְדָּל‎; yighdāl, means “Magnify [O Living God]“) is based on the 13 Articles of Faith formulated by Maimonides (1135-1204). Daniel ben Judah spent eight years in improving it, completing the piyyut . . . → Read More: יִגְדַּל | Yigdal by Daniel ben Judah (translation by Chajm Guski)

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