תְּפִלָּה לִבְנֵי מִצְוָה | Prayer for Bené Mitsvah, according to the London Sephardic rite, by Ḥakham Benjamin Artom (ca. 1866)

This prayer, written for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London in the mid-19th century, is stated by the bar mitsvah prior to his ‘aliya blessing over the Torah. In the early 2010s, Rabbi Israel Elia ז״ל introduced the custom that a bat mitsvah recites a feminine form (with words marked in blue replaced by words marked in red) prior to her derasha. (In egalitarian communities where a bat mitsvah recieves an ‘aliyah as well, she may recite it prior to the ‘aliya blessing as well.)

Categories:

Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Before the Aliyot, prayers for adolescents, Spanish-Portuguese, Western Sefaradim

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Montagu and Benjamin Artom

שְׁעֵה נֶאֱסַר | Sh’eh Ne’esar — a pizmon seliḥah for 17 Tammuz by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 1050)

A seliḥah for 17 Tammuz by the great payṭan and philosopher Shlomo ibn Gabirol. This seliḥa is referred to as pizmon, meaning that (in the Ashkenazi rite) each stanza is recited aloud by the congregation followed by the shaliaḥ tzibbur. This piyyuṭ, in Ashkenazi practice, serves as the final unique seliḥa of the 17 Tammuz seliḥot. (There are other piyyutim recited as part of fast day seliḥot but they aren’t unique to 17 Tammuz.)

Categories:

Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz

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11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, פיוטים piyyuṭim, סליחות səliḥot

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol