Sabbath Blessing, a prayer by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (Reformed Society of Israel ca. 1826)

“Sabbath Blessing” by Caroline de Litchfield Harby (ca.1800-1876), is included in the so-called Isaac Harby Prayerbook (1974) also known as the Cohn Lithograph, a handwritten prayerbook attesting to the prayers of the Reformed Society of Israel. . . .

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Saturday

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns, paraliturgical yotser ohr, South Carolina

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Caroline de Litchfield Harby, Reformed Society of Israelites and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Although the Vine Its Fruit Deny, a hymn by Abraham Moïse (Reformed Society of Israel ca. 1826)

The hymn “Although the vine its fruit deny” by Abraham Moïse (ca.1799-1869), is presented as Hymn 1 in The Sabbath service and miscellaneous prayers, adopted by the Reformed society of Israelites, founded in Charleston, S.C., November 21, 1825 (1830), p. 55. . . .

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Tishah b'Av

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

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Abraham Moïse, Reformed Society of Israelites and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 The Sabbath Service and Miscellaneous Prayers (Reformed Society of Israelites, Charleston, South Carolina, 1825)

The first Reform prayerbook in the United States and the fourth oldest Reform liturgy in the world. . . .

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Shabbat Siddurim

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, Reform Jewry

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David Nunes Carvalho, Isaac Harby, Abraham Moïse and Reformed Society of Israelites

בְּנדּיגֿ טוּ שַנט…קִי פִֿיש מִי פְינַה | Blessed are you…who made me a woman, a variation of the morning blessing for Jewish women in Judeo-Provençal (ca. 14-15th c.)

From the Morning Blessings (Birkhot ha-Shaḥar) of the Seder tefilot be-targum le-Shuʾadit [סדר תפילות בתרגום לשואדית], a translation of the Siddur into Judaeo-Provençal dating from the 14th-15th century providing the following blessing for women. . . .

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Berakhot she'Asani, 🌐 International Women's Day (March 8th)

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., blessings, Jewish Women's Prayers, Judeo-Provençal

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Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם | Before the Glorious Orbs of Light, a paraliturgical adaptation of Adon Olam by David Nunes Carvalho (ca. 1826)

A paraliturgical adaptation of the piyyut Adon Olam by an early leader of the Reform movement. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Bedtime Shema

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., אדון עולם Adon Olam, alternate rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical adon olam

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Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Reformed Society of Israelites, David Nunes Carvalho and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Təʾəzazä Sänbät, a work from the Greater Betä Ǝsraʾel Canon, translated and cantillated in Masoretic Hebrew

The Təʾəzazä Sänbät, or the Commandments of the Sabbath, is a unique and fascinatingly eclectic work, combining Enochic and aggadic material with an almost kabbalistic personification of Shabbat, and influence from Islamic and Christian texts. Attributed to Abba Ṣabra, a famed 15th-century convert to Judaism, it is a compilation of texts meant to be studied and considered on Shabbat, alongside unique and striking visualizations of divine cosmology, heaven and hell, and midrashim found nowhere else. . . .

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Shabbat Readings, Midrash Aggadah

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Angels, Ethiopian Jewry, Mäṣḥäf Ḳədus, parabiblical aggadah, Sabbath Queen, Te'ezaza Sanbat

Contributor(s):

Wolf Leslau (translation: English), Abba Tsabrah (traditional attribution), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)