אֲגַדֶלְךָ | Agadelkha, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.) translation by Anonymous

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רשות reshut, אגדלך Agadelkha, זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 12th century C.E., cosmological, 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, ספר יצירה Sefer Yetsirah, קדיש ḳaddish

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
אֲגַדֶלְךָ אֳלֹהֵי כָּל נְשָׁמָה. וְאוֹדֶךָ בְּרֹב פַּחַד וְאֵימָה.	I will speak of your greatness, elo’ah of all souls, and I will praise you, with much fear and awe,
בְּעֹמְדִי תוֹךְ קְהַלְךָ צוּר לְרוֹמֵם. לְךָ אֶכְרַע וְאֶכוֹף רֹאשׁ וְקוֹמָה.	While I stand within your congregation, forever exalting, to you I will bend my knees and lower my head and stature.
רְקִיעֵי רוּם הַלֹא נַטָה בְּמִבְטָא. וְהָאָרֶץ יְסַדָה עַל בְּלִימָה.	Hashem planted the stars with their speech, and anchored the land to nothingness.^[1] cf. Job 26:7, a reference also to the Sefer Yetsirah.
הַיוּכַל אִישׁ חֲקוֹר אֶת סוֹד יוֹצְרוֹ. וּמִי הוּא זֶה בְּכֹל קֶדְמָה וְיַמָה.	Can a man investigate the secret of Hashem’s creation? And who is that who is in every direction?
מְרוֹמַם הוּא עֲלֵי כָּל פֶּה וְלָשׁוֹן. אֲשֶׁר הִפְלִיא וְעֲשָׂה כָּל בְּחֹכְמָה.	Hashem are praised by every mouth and tongue, which Hashem miraculously made their wisdom.
וְיִתְגַדָל בְּגוֹי קָדוֹשׁ וְעֶלְיוֹן. וְיִתְקַדָש שְׁמֵיה רַבָּא בְּעַלְמָא.	And Hashem is exalted by a holy and supernal nation, may Hashem’s great name be made holy in the world!

A short piyyut by Avraham Ibn Ezra, whose first name is signed in an acrostic. The translation here, from an unknown and anonymous contributor to zemirotdatabase.org, follows after the translation that Honi Sanders and I published in the birkon for his wedding, Siman l’Vanim (Dimus Parrhesia Press 2019) with some minor changes. –Aharon Varady

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1	cf. Job 26:7, a reference also to the Sefer Yetsirah.

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

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Avraham ibn Ezra

Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא‎ ʾAvraham ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic: إبراهيم‎ المجيد ابن عزرا‎‎ Ibrāhim al-Mājid ibn Ezra; also known simply as Ibn Ezra, 1089 / 1092 – 27 January 1164 / 23 January 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages. He was born in Tudela in northern Spain.

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