אַאְפִּיד נֵֽזֶר אָיוֹם | Aɐpid Nézer Ayom, by Elazar ben Qallir (abridged English translation by Katie Magnus, 1907)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Katie Magnus (translation) and Elazar ben Qallir

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44th century A.M., 7th century C.E., אאפיד נזר איום Aapid Nézer Ayom, acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, double acrostic, rhyming translation

Source (Hebrew)	Abbreviated Rhyming Translation (English)
אַאְפִּיד נֵֽזֶר אָיוֹם בְּשִׁלּוּשׁ קְדֻשָּׁה בַּיּוֹם׃	To Him who is feared a Crown will I bring, Thrice Holy each day acclaim Him my King;
גִּבּֽוֹרֵי כֹחַ גְּדֻלָּה דַּהֲרֽוּהוּ בְּבֵית דְּגִילָה׃	At altars, ye mighty, proclaim loud His praise, And multitudes too may whisper His lays.
הֽוֹגֵי הֶֽגֶה הֲמֻלָּה וַתְּקֽוּהוּ בְּהַלֵּל וּמִלָּה׃	Ye angels, ye men, whose good deeds He records — Sing, He is One, He is good, our yoke is the Lord’s!
	Praise Him trembling to-day. His mercy is wide — Ye who fear for His wrath — it doth not abide!
זוֹכֵר לָעַד זְכֻיּוֹת חַדְּשֽׁוּהוּ זֶֽמֶר חַיּוֹת׃	Ye seraphim, high above storm clouds may sing; Men and angels make music, th’ All-seeing is king.
טוֹב עוֹמֵס טֹֽרַח יַחֲדֽוּהוּ בְּחִדּוּשׁ יָֽרֵחַ׃
כּוֹבֵשׁ כׇּל כְּעָסִים לְבַל אַף לְהָשִׂים׃
מְשָׁרְתֵי בְּחִיל מוֹרָא נָכְחָם הַלֲלוּ נוֹרָא׃
שַׂרְפֵי סְבִיב סְעָרָה עֱנוּ לְמַעֲבִיר עֶבְרָה׃
פְּלִיאִים פִּצְחוּ פֶה צַלְצְלוּ הַכֹּל צוֹפֶה׃	As ye open your lips, at His Name they shall cease — Transgression and sin — in their place shall be peace;
קְהִלּוֹת עַם קְדוֹשִׁים רוֹמֲמֽוּהוּ רִבֲבוֹת רוֹעֲשִׁים׃
שֶֽׁמַע קוֹל שׁוֹפָר תַּאֲזִין וְאַשְׁמָה תוּפָר׃
חזן: תְּשַׁלֵּשׁ שׁוֹפָרוֹת בְּהַר הַקֹּדֶשׁ וַאֲשַׁלֵּשׁ קְדֻשָּׁה בַּקֹּדֶשׁ.	Reader: And thrice shall the Shofar re-echo your song On mountain and altar to whom both belong.

This is the abridged rhyming English translation by Katie Magnus for the piyyut “Aɐpid Nézer Ayom” by Elazar ben Qalir. The translation is found in Hebert Adler and Arthur Davis’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haZikaron (1907), pp. 102-103. I have set the translation as-is side-by-side with the text of Aɐpid to the best of my ability. A handful of verses are elided in Magnus’s translation. –Aharon Varady

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Aharon N. Varady (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.)

Katie Magnus (translation)

Katie Emanuel Magnus, Lady Magnus (1844–March 1924), born in Portsmouth, England, was a British-Jewish author, poet, historian, and communal worker. She was a member of various committees of the Berkeley Street Synagogue, engaged in the Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home, and was a treasurer of the Jewish Girls' Club. She wrote several popular books including Outlines of Jewish History (1885), and also contributed articles to several periodicals.

Elazar ben Qallir

Elazar ben Qallir, also known as Eleazar Kalir, Killir, Qalir or El'azar HaKalir (c. 570 – c. 640) was a Hebrew poet whose classical liturgical verses, known as piyut, have continued to be sung through the centuries during significant religious services, including those on Tisha b'Av and on the sabbath after a wedding. He was one of Judaism's earliest and most prolific of the paytanim, Hebrew liturgical poets. He wrote piyutim for all the main Jewish festivals, for special Sabbaths, for weekdays of festive character, and for the fasts. Many of his hymns have found their way into festive prayers of the Ashkenazi Jews' nusaḥ. (via wikipedia).

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