מָגֵן אָבוֹת וּמִשְׂגָּב אִמָּהוֹת | Magen Avot u-Misgav Imahot, an alternate egalitarian ḥatimah for the opening blessing of the Amidah

An egalitarian liturgical innovation for the ḥatimah of the first blessing of the Amidah, magen avot in which the divine is described as the fortress of Sarah.

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Weekday Amidah

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., מגן אבות magen avot, traditional egalitarian

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jonathan Schachter and Unknown

יָרֵאתִי | Yaréti (“Trembling”), a piyyut by Yequtiel bar Mosheh of Speyer (rhyming English translation by Elsie Davis, 1907)

This is the reshut “Yareti” by Yequtiel bar Mosheh (known from the acrostic signature), as translated into rhymed English verse by Elsie Davis, and published in Herbert Adler and Arthur Davis’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haZikaron (1907), pp. 95-96. This reshut is offered by the shaliaḥ tsibbur at the outset of their repetition of the Amidah for shaḥarit on Rosh haShanah in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ, minhag Polin.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, פיוטים piyyuṭim, רשויות reshuyot, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Yequtiel bar Mosheh of Speyer

אֶתֵּן לְפוֹעֲלִי צֶֽדֶק | Ètén l’Fōali Tsedeq (“My Maker’s Justice”), a piyyut by Rabbi Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz (rhyming English translation by Elsie Davis, 1907)

This is the alphabetic acrostic piyyut “Etén l’Foali Tsedeq” by Shimon bar Yitsḥaq (b. Abun of Mainz, identified via his acrostic signature), as translated into rhymed English verse by Elsie Davis, and published in Herbert Adler and Arthur Davis’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haZikaron (1907), p. 104 (also, p. 200).

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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10th century C.E., 48th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz