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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

This is an archive of prayers for the first day of Pesaḥ (Passover), extended to two days outside of Erets Yisrael.

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שים שלום למוסף טל | Sim Shalom for the “Tal” Musaf Amidah of Pesaḥ (extended)

The first day of Pesach, according to the Sages, is the day the world is judged for grain and dew. Because of this, many customs have developed tying it into the pomp of the High Holy Days. One custom preserved in many medieval maḥzorim is to extend the final blessing of the the Musaf “Tal” (Dew) service, including a Hayom piyyut, a piyyut form otherwise almost exclusively associated with the Yamim Noraim. This extended Sim Shalom berakha including piyyutim is presented here, largely based on the form compiled by Ernst Daniel Goldschmidt (zatsal). . . .

Categories:

the Dry Season (Spring & Summer), Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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היום תאמצנו Hayom T'amtsenu, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, peace, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Prayers for Precipitation, Spring, טל tal

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

🆕 אֵרָשֶׁה אֱרֹשׁ רַחֲשׁוֹן | Erasheh Erosh Raḥashon — a reshut for the Ṭal liturgy by Elazar ben Qallir

Qallir’s reshut for the Ṭal service on the first day of Pesaḥ. Also included is an acrostic English translation, as well as the catena of verses found in manuscripts but missing from most modern printings . . .

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the Dry Season (Spring & Summer), Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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45th century A.M., 7th century C.E., phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, מוריד הטל morid hatal, Prayers for Precipitation, רשות reshut, water cycle

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Elazar ben Killir

לְשׁוֹנִי כּוֹנַנְתָּ | Leshoni Konanta (My tongue you have fashioned), a reshut attributed to Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.) translated by Sara Lapidot

The reshut for the prayer for rain and dew on Shemini Atseret and Pesaḥ, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag, Shemini Atseret

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11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Needing Source Images, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Prayers for Precipitation, רשות reshut

Contributor(s):

Sara Lapidot (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol

Am Überschreitungsfest | At the Passover Festival, a teḥinah for Pesaḥ by Peter Beer (1815)

“Am Überfhreitungsfest (At the Exodus Festival)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №26 on pages 85-90 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №26 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on pages 74-78. A variation can also be found in the Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №27 on pages 70-74. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Pereẓ (Peter) Beer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Licht und Wahrheit | Light and Truth, translated by Felix Adler (1868) from a poem by Eduard Kley (1826)

“Licht und Wahrheit (Light and Truth)” is a hymn translated by Felix Adler from Allgemeines Israelitisches Gesangbuch: eingeführt in dem Neuen Israelitischen Tempel zu Hamburg (1833), hymn №125, pp. 155-157, and published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn №12, pp. 24-25. We have tentatively dated this hymn to 1868, since another hymn by Adler (“School-hymn, no. 36”) can be found appended from another unattributed work in A Guide to Instruction in the Israelitsh Religion (Samuel Adler, trans. M. Mayer, Temple Emanu-El, 1864, 4th printing 1868). The hymn as printed in the Hamburg Temple Hymnal is nine stanzas long. That hymnal credits the hymn as printed in the collected sermons of Eduard Kley, Sammlung der neuesten Predigten (1826) where it appears on pages 49-50 in three stanzas as part of a discourse on Passover. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., diaspora, English Translation, German Reform Movement, German vernacular prayer, hymns, liturgy of the wandering stars

Contributor(s):

Felix Adler, Eduard Kley and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Am Osterfeste, Paßah (פסח) [v.2] | Prayer on the Spring Festival, Pesaḥ (v.2) — a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Desselben Inhalts [Am Osterfeste, Paßah (פסח) v.2]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №24 on pp. 30-32. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №24 on pp. 35-37. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №26 on pp. 38-40. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Freedom, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Spring, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

An den Hauptfesten, wenn man Behufs der üblichen Vorlesungen die Gesetzrolle aus der heiligen Lade nimmt | On the Shalosh Regalim when one removes the Torah from the holy Ark, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“An den Hauptfesten, wenn man Behufs der üblichen Vorlesungen die Gesetzrolle aus der heiligen Lade nimmt” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №18 on pp. 22-23. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №18 on pp. 26-27. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №20 on pp. 29-31. . . .

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Before the Aliyot, Shavuot, Sukkot, Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag, Shemini Atseret

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, הוצאת ספר תורה Removal of the Torah from the Ark, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Am Osterfeste, Paßah (פסח) [v.1] | Prayer on the Spring Festival, Pesaḥ (v.1) — a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am Osterfeste, Paßah (פסח)” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №23 on pp. 28-30. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №23 on pp. 33-35. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №25 on pp. 36-38. . . .

Categories:

Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Freedom, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Spring, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet am Erinnerungsfeste der Befreiung aus Egypten (Pessach) | Prayer on the Festival of the Liberation from Egypt (Pesaḥ), a teḥinah by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)

“Gebet am Erinnerungsfeste der Befreiung aus Egypten. (Pessach.)” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in Die fromme Zionstochter (1841), pp. 42-45. In its 1846 printing, the prayer is found on pp. 43-46. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Menaḥem Mendel Stern and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet am Uiberschreitungsfeste (חג הפסח) | Prayer on the Passover Festival, a teḥinah by Meïr haLevi Letteris (1846)

“Gebet am Uiberschreitungsfeste” was written by Meïr haLevi Letteris and published in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (1846), pp. 35-36. In the Judeo-German edition, it is found on pp. 34-36. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Meïr haLevi Letteris and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the First Days of Passover (פסח), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer for the First Days of Passover (פסח)” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), pp. 20-21. . . .

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Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Anglo Jewry, English Translation, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Tal, a prayer for dew in the onset of spring by Lise Tarlau (1907)

“Tal” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 315-317. . . .

Categories:

the Dry Season (Spring & Summer), Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical tefilat tal, Prayers for Precipitation, Spring

Contributor(s):

Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ | Mi sheBerakh for Victims of Slavery, by Rabbi Joshua Boettiger (2009)

We are grateful to Rabbi Joshua Boettinger and Rabbis for Human Rights–North America (RHR-NA) for sharing the following petitionary prayer, A Misheberakh for Victims of Slavery. Originally published by RHR-NA on their website in 2009, the prayer attends to the desperate need to eradicate all forms of slavery that persist today, especially in advance of the holiday celebrating our Z’man Cheruteinu, the season of our freedom, every Spring, every Pesaḥ. . . .

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After the Aliyot, Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag, Slavery & Captivity

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., human trafficking, מי שברך mi sheberakh, Needing Vocalization, North America, slavery

Contributor(s):

Joshua Boettiger and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

מוריד הטל | Morid Hatal — to the One who settles the dew, post-October 7 — by Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg (neohasid·org 2024)

On Passover we end the prayers for rain that began on October 7, and begin the prayers for dew. The prayers end, but the war that began with the October 7 attack does not. Here is a reflection on that. . . .

Categories:

Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag, War

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2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, מוריד הטל morid hatal, paraliturgical tefilat tal, Prayers as poems, water cycle

Contributor(s):

David Seidenberg and Neohasid·org

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