Prayer at the Dedication of the Home for the Aged and Infirm by the I.O.B.B. District Grand Lodge №1 by Rabbi Henry Samuel Jacobs (28 June 1882)

This prayer by Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs was offered at the Dedication of the Home for the Aged and Infirm by the District Grand Lodge No. 1 Independent Order of B’né B’rith on 28 June 1882 and published in their Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of District Grand Lodge No. 1 I.O.B.B. Held January 29, 30, and 31, 1882, pp. 68-70.

Categories:

Congregation & Community, Homes & Community Centers

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Freemasons

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Henry Samuel Jacobs

יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan (abridged translation by Rev. William Channing Gannett, 1911)

This is Rev. William Channing Gannett’s rhymed English translation of Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan’s “Yigdal” made at the request of Rabbi Max Landsberg and published in Gannett’s Unity hymns and chorals (1911), pp. 2-3.

Categories:

Arvit l'Shabbat, Morning Baqashot

Tags:

15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), William Channing Gannett, Newton Mann and Max Landsberg