אֱלֹהַי נְשָׁמָה | Elohai Neshamah, a rhyming translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

A rhyming translation of Elohai Neshamah. . . .

Categories: Elohai Neshamah

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, rhyming translation

Contributor(s): Alice Lucas (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אֱלֹהַי נְשָׁמָה שֶׁנָּתַתָּ בִּי | Neshamah Shenatata Bi (the breath you have given me), interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

This English translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l of “Neshama Shenatata Bi,” was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Linear associations of this translation according to the nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l by Aharon Varady. . . .

Categories: Elohai Neshamah

Tags: Amoraic prayers, Asiyah, Body as Cosmos, Breath, breathing, devotional interpretation, אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, English Translation, four worlds, interpretive translation, Late Antiquity, neshamah, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

אֱלֹהַי נְשָׁמָה (נוסח אנגליה) | Elohai Neshamah, the complete daily vidui as found in the Ets Ḥayyim of Jacob Jehudah Ḥazzan on London (1287)

This is the remarkable and unique form of the prayer Elohai Neshamah as found in the Ets Ḥayyim, a compendium of law and tradition of the Jews of England completed in 1287 by Jacob Jehudah Ḥazzan of London (only three years before the expulsion of the Jews from England). . . .

Categories: Elohai Neshamah

Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Needing Vocalization, Nusaḥ Anglia, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Brodie, Yaakov ben Yehudah Ḥazzan of London and Unknown Author(s)

Reggeli ima | Gebet am Morgen | Morning Prayer, a paraliturgical Elohai Neshamah by Rabbi Arnold Kiss (1897)

This prayer by Rabbi Arnold Kiss for the well-being of a husband by their wife, “A nő imája férjéért,” was first published in his anthology of prayers for Jewish women, Mirjam (1897) on p.246-248. It doesn’t appear to me to have been translated in the subsequent German edition (1907). I’ve set my English translation side-by-side with the Magyar. –Aharon Varady . . .

Categories: Elohai Neshamah

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Magyar vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah

Contributor(s): Arnold Kiss and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אלהי נשמה | Elohai Neshamah, adapted by Yael Schweid & Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi (2009)

An adaptation of the prayer Elohai Neshama in honor of a bar mitsvah. . . .

Categories: Elohai Neshamah

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, Needing Translation (into English)

Contributor(s): Rabbi Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi and Yael Schweid

אֱלֹהַי נְשָׁמָה | Elohai Neshamah, a paraliturgical reflection by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

A paraliturgical reflection on the prayer over being animated with life sustaining breath, Elohai Neshamah, for a shame resilience practice. . . .

Categories: Elohai Neshamah

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, shame resilience

Contributor(s): Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

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