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2020 —⟶ Page 18 The story of Daniel and the dragon held captive by the neo-Babylonians found in Aramaic in the Divrei Yeraḥmiel (the Chronicles of Jeraḥmeel, Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11). . . . Categories: Tags: anti-predatory, Antiquity, Aramaic, captive animals, captives, deuterocanonical works, dragons, חבקוק Ḥabaquq, iconoclastic, Jewish Antiquities, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, the Pit Contributor(s): A poetic introduction to the Azharot of Solomon ibn Gabirol read in the afternoon of Shavuot by Sefaradim. . . . Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Azharot, Decalogue, Har Sinai, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, פיוטים piyyuṭim, התורה the Torah, theophany Contributor(s): An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. . . . Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, libi uv'sari, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, פיוטים piyyuṭim, צמאה נפשי Tsamah Nafshi, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): A popular piyyut for all occasions by Avraham ibn Ezra. . . . A medieval Jewish poem on the game of Chess by Avraham ibn Ezra.. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): חֲרוּזִים עַל שְּׂחוֹק שָׁ״הּ־מָ״תּ | Rhymed Poem on Chess (long), by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.)A poem on how to play chess, one of the oldest historical descriptions of the game of Chess, by Avraham ibn Ezra (12th century) . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi in the 12th century CE. . . . Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., prayers of health care workers, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, professional intention Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive “praying translation” of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), interpretive translation, Openers, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): A rhyming English translation of Adon Olam by Rosa Emma Salaman. . . . The dream and prayer of Mordecai, and the prayer of Esther, as copied in the medieval pseudo-historical Chronicle of Yeraḥmiel. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., dragons, dreams, Needing Vocalization, parabiblical aggadah, prophetic dreams Contributor(s): “Ezkera Matsok” (I remember the distress) is a seliḥah in alphabetic acrostic recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . . An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Angelic Protection, Angels, Angels of Healing, apotropaic prayers of protection, Before Sleep, danger, night, שכינה Shekhinah, sleep Contributor(s): A piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol included in the arrangement of Baqashot before the morning service in the liturgical custom of Sefaradim. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, בקשות Baqashot, כל ברואי kol beruei, ספר יצירה Sefer Yetsirah Contributor(s): A prayer for those martyred in the First Crusade and Rhineland Massacres, and by extension, all subsequent pogroms up until and including the Holocaust. . . . An Aramaic piyyut composed as an introduction to the reading of the Targum for the Torah reading on Shavuot. . . . An interpretive translation of Yehudah haLevi’s shabbat song, “Yom Shabbaton.” . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A Karaite song for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A seliḥah for the Fast of Gedalyah, attributed to Rav Saadia Gaon. . . . Categories: Tags: 10th century C.E., 47th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, assassination, elegies, Prayers for leaders, קינות Ḳinōt, סליחות səliḥot Contributor(s): The full text of the alphabetic mesostic piyyut, Hayom, according to the Italian nusaḥ. . . . Categories: Tags: alphabetic mesostic, היום תאמצנו Hayom T'amtsenu, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, Musaf Yom Kippur, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): | ||
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