נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי | Nishmat Kol Ḥai, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (Latin)
נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי תְּבָרֵךְ אֶת שִׁמְךָ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ. וְרוּחַ כָּל בָּשָׂר תְּפָאֵר וּתְרוֹמֵם זִכְרְךָ מַלְכֵּנוּ תָּמִיד.	Anima omnis viventis benedicet nomini tuo, Domine, Deus noster, & spiritus omnis carnis glorificabit & exaltabit memoriam tuam,
מִן הָעוֹלָם וְעַד־הָעוֹלָם אַתָּה אֵל. (תהלים צ:ב) וּמִבַּלְעָדֶיךָ אֵין לָנוּ מֶלֶךְ (להשוואה ישעיה מד:ו) גּוֹאֵל וּמוֹשִׁיעַ פּוֹדֶה וּמַצִּיל וּמְפַרְנֵס וּמְרַחֵם בְּכָל עֵת צָרָה וְצוּקָה אֵין לָנוּ מֶלֶךְ אֶלָּא אָתָּה׃	Rex noster, jugiter, a seculo & usque in seculum, tu es Deus: Et præter te non est nobnis Rex, Redemptor & Salvator, Redimens & Eripiens, Pascens & Miserans in omni tempore angustiæ & tribulationis,
אֱלֹהֵי הָרִאשׁוֹנִים וְהָאַחֲרוֹנִים אֱלֹהַּ כָּל בְּרִיוֹת אֲדוֹן כָּל תּוֹלָדוֹת הַמְּהֻלָל בְּרֹב הַתִּשְׁבָּחוֹת. הַמְנַהֵג עוֹלָמוֹ בְּחֶסֶד וּבְרִיּוֹתָיו בְּרַחֲמִים.	Deus priorum & posteriorum; Deus omnium creaturarum, Deus omnium generationum; Laudatus omnibus celebrationibus. Gubernans seculum suum in misericorida:
וַיְהֹוָה הִנֵה לֹא־יָנוּם וְלֹא־יִישָׁן. הַמְּעוֹרֵר יְשֵׁנִים וְהַמֵּקִיץ נִרְדָּמִים (תהלים קכא:ד) וְהַמֵּשִׂיחַ אִלְּמִים וְהַמַּתִּיר אֲסוּרִים (להשוואה תהלים קמו:ז-ח) וְהַסּוֹמֵךְ נוֹפְלִים וְהַזּוֹקֵף כְּפוּפִים. (להשוואה תהלים קמה:יד) לְךָ לְבַדְּךָ אֲנַחְנוּ מוֹדִים.	Et ecce Deus non dormitabit neque dormiet evigilare faciens dormientes, & excitans dormitantes, & loqui faciens mutos, & liberans incarceratos & fulciens candentes, & erigens incurvatos, tibi soli nos confitentes:
וְאִלּוּ פִינוּ מָלֵא שִׁירָה כַּיָּם וּלְשׁוֹנֵנוּ רִנָּה כַּהֲמוֹן גַּלָּיו וְשִׂפְתוֹתֵינוּ שֶׁבַח כְּמֶרְחֲבֵי רָקִיעַ וְעֵינֵינוּ כַּשֶּׁמֶשׁ וְיָרֵחַ וְיָדֵינוּ פְרוּשׂוֹת כְּנִשְׂרֵי שָׁמַיִם וְרַגְלֵינוּ קַלּוֹת כָּאַיָּלוֹת׃ אֵין אָנוּ מַסְפִּיקִים לְהוֹדוֹת לְךָ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ וֵאלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ וּלְבָרֵךְ אֶת־שְׁמֶךָ עַל־אַחַת מֵאֶלֶף אֶלֶף אַלְפֵי אֲלָפִים רִבֵּי רְבָבוֹת פְּעָמִים הַטּוֹבוֹת שֶׁעָשִׂיתָ עִם־אֲבוֹתֵינוּ׃	Si (enim) os nostrum plenum esset canticis, sicutimare, & lingua nostra canticis instar examinis fluctuum ejus, & labia nostra laudibus sucitu latitudines firmamenti, & oculi nostri sicuti sol & luna, & manus nostræ, expansæ sicuti aquilæ cœlorum, & pedes nostri leves sicuti cervi, non (sumus) nos sufficientes laudare te, Domine, Deus noster, & Deus patrum nostrorum, & benedicere nomini tuo pro unica è millies millies millies millibus & decem myriadibus bonitatum, quas feciti cum patribus nostris & nobiscum:
מִמִּצְרַיִם גְּאַלְתָּנוּ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ. וּמִּבֵּית עֲבָדִים פְּדִיתָנוּ. בְּרָעָב זַנְתָּנוּ וּבְשָׂבָע כִּלְכַּלְתָּנוּ מֵחֶרֶב הִצַּלְתָּנוּ וּמִדֶּבֶר מִלַּטְתָּנוּ וּמֵחָלָיִם רָעִים וְנֶאֱמָנִים דִּלִּיתָנוּ׃ עַד־הֵנָּה עֲזָרוּנוּ רַחֲמֶיךָ וְלֹא־עֲזָבוּנוּ חֲסָדֶיךָ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ וְאַל תִּטְּשֵׁנוּ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ לָנֶצַח׃	Ex Ægypto redemisti nos, Domine, Deus noster, & è domo servitutis liberasti nos, in fame cibasti nos, & a gladio eripuisti nos, & a peste liberasti nos, & à multis malis & fidelibus morbis extraxisti nos, hucusque auxilio fuerunt nobis miserationes tuæ & misericordiæ tuæ non dereliquerunt nos, Domine, Deus noster, & ne deferas nos Domine, Deus noster in æternum:
עַל כֵּן אֵבָרִים שֶׁפִּלַּגְתָּ בָּנוּ וְרוּחַ וּנְשָׁמָה שֶׁנָּפַחְתָּ בְּאַפֵּינוּ וְלָשׁוֹן אֲשֶׁר שַׂמְתָּ בְּפִינוּ׃ הֵן הֵם יוֹדוּ וִיבָרְכוּ וִישַׁבְּחוּ וִיפָאֲרוּ וִירוֹמְמוּ וְיַעֲרִיצוּ וְיַקְדִּישׁוּ וְיַמְלִיכוּ אֶת שִׁמְךָ מַלְכֵּנוּ׃	Propterea membra quæ in nobis divisisti & spiritus atque anima, quam spiralti in nares nostras & linguam, quam posuisti in ore nostro; illa confitebuntur & benedicent & laudabunt, decorabunt, laudibus celebrabunt, & exaltabunt, sanctificabunt, & regnare facient nomen tuum, Rex noster:
כִּי כָל־פֶּה לְךָ יוֹדֶה וְכָל לָשׁוֹן לְךָ תִשָּׁבַע. וְכָל־בֶּרֶךְ לְךָ תִכְרַע (להשוואה ישעיה מה:כג) וְכָל־קוֹמָה לְפָנֶיךָ תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה. וְכָל הַלְבָבוֹת יִירָאוּךָ וְכָל־קֶרֶב וּכְלָיוֹת יְזַמְּרוּ לִשְׁמֶךָ. כַּדָּבָר שֶׁכָּתוּב כָּל־עַצְמוֹתַי תֹּאמַרְנָה יְהֹוָה מִי כָמוֹךָ. מַצִּיל עָנִי מֵחָזָק מִמֶּנוּ וְעָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן מִגֹּזְלוֹ׃ (תהלים לה:י)	Quia omne os tibi confitebitur, & omnis lingua tibi jurabit, & omne genu se flectet tibi, & omnis erectio coram facie tua inclinabit se, & omnia corda timebunt te, & omne viscus & renes psallent nomini tuo juxta verbum, quod scriptum est; “Omnia offa mea dicent; Domine quis est sicut tu? Eripiens pauperem à forti ri præ illo, pauperem & egenum à prædone ejus”;
מִי יִדְמֶה־לָּךְ וּמִי יִשְׁוֶה־לָּךְ וּמִי יַעֲרָךְ־לָךְ. (להשוואה תהלים פט:יז, ישעיה מ:כה) הָאֵל הַגָּדוֹל הַגִּבּוֹר וְהַנּוֹרָא אֵל עֶלְיוֹן קוֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ׃	Quis similis est tibi? aut qui æstimabit te? Magne, Deus fortis & formidabilis, Deus summe, possidens cœlos & terram;
נְהַלֶּלְךָ וּנְשַׁבֵּחֲךָ וּנְפָאֶרְךָ וּנְבָרֵךְ אֶת־שֵׁם קָדְשֶׁךָ. כָּאָמוּר לְדָוִד בָּרְכִי נַפְשִׁי אֶת יְהֹוָה וְכָל קְרָבַי אֶת־שֵׁם קָדְשׁוֹ׃ (תהלים קג:א)	laudabimus te & celebrabimus & decorabimus & benedicemus nomini sanctitatis tuæ, juxta dictum Davidis: “Benedic anima mea Domino, & omnia viscera mea nomini sanctitatus ejus.”

This is the prayer, Nishmat Kol Ḥai, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel as found in his translation of the Pesaḥ seder haggadah, Liber Rituum Paschalium (1644).

Transcription of the Latin by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer, and of the Hebrew by Aharon Varady. Unfortunately, my Latin is not sufficient for completing a secondary translation. If you can make one, please contact us.

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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.)

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)

From a family of musicians, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer believes that creative art is one of the most powerful ways to get in touch with the divine. He composes music and poetry in Hebrew and English. (He also translates and authors his own original works.) Isaac runs a Jewish music transcription service, which will transcribe and set any Jewish music in any language, recorded or written. Contact his service on Facebook or via his music blog.

Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation)

Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin: Rittangelius) (b.1606 Forscheim near Bamberg – d. 1652 Königsberg ) was a Christian Hebraist. Born Jewish, he later converted to Catholicism, and later to Calvinism and Lutheranism. In 1640, Rittangel was appointed professor of Oriental languages at the University of Königsberg (Prussia). In 1641, Rittangel visited a community of Karaite Jews in Trakai, before traveling to London and then to the Dutch Republic where, in Amsterdam, he taught Hebrew and possibly identified, for a time, as a Jew. In July 1642 he left the Low Countries to go to Königsberg, where he spent the rest of his life until his death in 1652. He obtained a Hebrew manuscript of the Sefer Yezirah through the Mennonite merchant Gerebrand Anslo, for a translation into Latin in 1642 ( Liber Jezirah qui Abrahamo Patriarchae adscribitur). In 1644, he published his Latin translation of the Passover Haggadah. He made one of the earliest translations of Jewish prayers, under the title Hochfeyerliche Sollennitaeten, Gebethe und Collecten Anstatt der Opfer, Nebst Andern Ceremonien so von der Jüdischen Kirchen am Ersten Neuen-Jahrs-Tag Gebetet und Abgehandelt Werden Müssen, Königsberg, 1652. His posthumous work Bilibra Veritatis was written to substantiate the claim that the Targums prove the doctrine of the Trinity. This is also the subject of his Veritas Religionis Christianæ (Franeker, 1699).

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