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כִּי אֶשְׁמְרָה שַׁבָּת | Ki Eshmera Shabbat, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (rhyming translation by Israel Abrahams, 1914)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Israel Abrahams (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra

The piyyut and popular shabbat table song, Ki Eshmera Shabbat, in Hebrew with a rhyming translation. . . .

חֲבִיבִי יָהּ חֲבִיבִי | Ḥavivi Yah Ḥavivi, by Asher Mizrahi (ca. early 20th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Asher Mizrahi

The popular table song calling for the redemption of the Messianic age in Tsiyon. . . .

אָשִׁיר לָאֵל אֲשֶׁר שָׁבַת | Ashir la-El Asher Shavat, a piyyut by Rabbi Mosheh ha-Levi (ca. 19th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Mosheh ha-Levi

A piyyut and table song for Shabbat by the chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. . . .

Kuando el rey Nimrod (When Nimrod was King), a song relating the story of Avraham & the Furnace (ca. 1890)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Unknown Translator(s) and Unknown Author(s)

The sephardic folk-song “Kuando el rey Nimrod” in Ladino with English translation. . . .

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Yitsḥak Luria

This translation of “Yom Zeh l’Yisrael” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

כִּי אֶשְׁמְרָה שַׁבָּת | Ki Eshmerah Shabbat, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra

This translation of “Ki Eshmera Shabbat” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

Prinzessin Sabbat | Princess Shabbat, by Heinrich Heine (1851)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Margaret Armour (translation) and Heinrich Heine

“Prinzessin Sabbat” by Heinrich Heine, in Romanzero III: Hebraeische Melodien, (“Princess Shabbat,” in Romanzero III, Hebrew Melodies.), 1851 was translated into English by Margaret Armour (1860-1943), The Works of Heinrich Heine vol. 12: Romancero: Book III, Last Poems (1891). We have replaced “schalet” (unchanged in Armour’s translation) with cholent. . . .

שִׁמְרוּ שַׁבְּתוֹתַי | Shimru Shabtotai, a pizmon by Salomone Rossi (ca. late 16th, early 17th c.)

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation) and Salomone Rossi

A zemer for shabbat, with English translation. . . .

יָצַר הָאֵל | Yatsar ha’El, a Shabbat song by Ya’aqov ha-Qara’i

Contributor(s):

Ḳaraite Jews of America and Ya'aqov ha-Paitan

A song for celebrating the Shabbat. . . .

אֲסַדֵּר לִסְעוּדָתָא | Asader liS’udata, a piyyut for Shabbat morning by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria

A piyyut by the ARI for the day of Shabbat in Aramaic set side-by-side with Reb Zalman’s paraliturgical, devotional translation. . . .

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a Shabbat hymn attributed to Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria

An interpretive translation in English of the shabbes hymn Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Nina Salaman, 1914)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Nina Davis Salaman (translation) and Yitsḥak Luria

A translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (abridged rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Alice Lucas (translation) and Yitsḥak Luria

An abridged rhymed translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translation by Sara-Kinneret Lapidot

Contributor(s):

Sara Lapidot (translation) and Yisrael Najara

The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translated by Rabbi Israel Brodie (1962)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Israel Brodie and Yisrael Najara

The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) rhyming translation by Israel Abrahams (1914)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Israel Abrahams (translation) and Yisrael Najara

The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with a rhyming English translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola (1857)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Yisrael Najara

This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Yah Ribon” by Rabbi Yisrael Najara was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translated by Paltiel Birnbaum (1949)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and Yisrael Najara

The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .

בַּר־יוֹחַאי | Bar Yoḥai, a pizmon by Shimon ibn Lavi (ca. 16th c.)

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation) and Shimon ibn Lavi

A pizmon and table song sung on Shabbat and on Lag ba-Omer with English translation. . . .

💬 זָכוֹר אֶת־יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ | Remember the Shabbat day to keep it holy, a reading for the second se’udah of Shabbat from the Zohar (parashat Yitro)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A reading from the Zohar providing context for the second meal of Shabbat (the Saturday lunch meal). . . .

בָּרוּךְ אֵל עֶלְיוֹן | Barukh El Elyon, a piyyut by Barukh bar Shmuel of Mayence (ca. 12th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Barukh ben Shmuel of Mainz

A piyyut and table song for Shabbat from 13th century Ashkenaz. . . .

צָמְאָה נַפְשִׁי | Tsam’ah Nafshi, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (trans. Avi Shmidman & Tzvi Novick)

Contributor(s):

Tzvi Novick (translation), Avi Shmidman and Avraham ibn Ezra

This translation of Tsam’ah Nafshi was made by Avi Shmidman and Tzvi Novick, and first published by the Az Yashir Moshe Project birkon (2009), p. 56-57. . . .

צָמְאָה נַפְשִׁי | Tsam’ah Nafshi, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Avraham ibn Ezra

An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. . . .

שָׁלוֹם לְךָ (לְבֶן) דּוֹדִי | Shalom Lekh (l’Ven) Dodi, by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol

A piyyut presenting a dialogue between a couple and Hashem. . . .

יוֹם שַׁבָּתוֹן | Yom Shabbaton, a Shabbat song by Yehudah haLevi (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

An interpretive translation of Yehudah haLevi’s shabbat song, “Yom Shabbaton.” . . .

דְּרוֹר יִקְרָא | D’ror Yiqra, a piyyut by Dunash ben Labrat haLevi (ca. 10th c.)

Contributor(s):

Sara Lapidot (translation) and Dunash ben Labrat haLevi

The popular piyyut, D’ror Yiqra, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .

מַה יְּדִידוּת מְנוּחָתֵךְ | Mah Yedidut M’nuḥatekh, attributed to Menaḥem ibn Saruq (ca. 10th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Menaḥem ibn Saruq

The popular table song for Shabbat. . . .

תהלים קכ״ו | Psalms 126 (Shir haMaalot), a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Franz Rosenzweig (translation), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)

Psalms 126 in Masoretic Hebrew, with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

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