אָז רוֹב נִסִּים | Az Rov Nissim, a piyyut by Yanai for the first night of Pesaḥ in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (Latin)
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ אָז רוֹב נִסִּים הִפְלֵאתָ בַּלַּיְלָה׃ בְּרֹאשׁ אַשְׁמוּרוֹת זֶה הַלַּיְלָה׃ גֵּר צֶדֶק נִצַּחְתּוֹ כְּנֶחֱלַק לוֹ לַיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Tunc multitudinem signorum mirificasti noctu; in capite (principio) custodiæ illius noctis. Peregrinum justitiæ (Abrahamum Gen. 14:15.) vincere secisti, dum divideret sibi noctem.
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ דַּנְתָּ מֶלֶךְ גְּרָר בַּחֲלוֹם הַלַּיְלָה׃ הִפְחַדְתָּ אֲרַמִּי בְּאֶמֶשׁ לַיְלָה׃ וְיִשְׂרָאֵל יָשַׂר לָאֵל וַיּוּכַל לוֹ לַיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Judicasti regem Gerar (Abimelech Gen. 20:6.) in somnio noctis. Pavere secisti Aramæum (Laban Gen. 31:24.) in hesterna nocte. Et Israel luctatus est cum Deo, (Gen. 32:24) & prævaluit illi noctu.
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ זֶרַע בְּכוֹרֵי פַתְרוֹס מָחַצְתָּ בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה׃ חֵיְלָם לֹא מָצְאוּ בְּקוּמָם בַּלַּיְלָה׃ טִסַּת נְגִיד חֲרוֹשֶׁת סִלִּיתָ בְּכוֹכְבֵי לַיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Semen primogenitorum (Exod. 12:19) Ægypti vulnerasti media nocte, Vires suas non invenerunt, dum surgerent illi noctu. Sifra, Principem Charuscheth (Jud. 5:20) prostrati stellis noctis
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ יָעַץ מְחָרֵף לְנוֹפֵף אִוּוּי הוֹבַשְׁתָּ פְגָרָיו בַּלַּיְלָה׃ כָּרַע בֵּל וּמַצָּבוֹ בְּאִישׁוֹן לַיְלָה׃ לְאִישׁ חֲמוּדוֹת נִגְלָה רָז חֲזוֹת לַיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Consuluit blasphemus (Senacherib Isai. 37:36) ad elevandum manus supra desiderabilem (civitatem Jerusalem) pudefiere fecisti cadavera ejus noctu, Subjectum fecisti eum & exercitum ejus tenebris noctis, Vivo desideriorum (Danieli, Dan. 7:2.) revelatum est mysterium visionis noctus.
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ מִשְׁתַּכֵּר בִּכְלֵי קֹדֶשׁ נֶהֱרַג בּוֹ בַלַּיְלָה׃ נוֹשַׁע מִבּוֹר אֲרָיוֹת פּוֹתֵר בְּעִתּוֹתֵי לַיְלָה׃ שִׂנְאָה נָטַר אֲגָגִי וְכָתַב סְפָרִים בַּלַּיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Inebrians se vasis sanctitatis (Balthasarus; Dan. 5:30.) occisus est noctu, Salvatus est è fovea leonum (Daniel, Dan. 6:23.) interpres temporibus noctis. Odium servavit Agagæus & scripsit literas noctu.
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ עוֹרַרְתָּ נִצְחֲךָ עָלָיו בְּנֶדֵד שְׁנַת לַיְלָה׃ פּוּרָה תִדְרוֹךְ לְשֹׁמֵר מַה מִלַּיְלָה׃ צָרַח כַּשּׁוֹמֵר וְשָׂח אָתָא בוֹקֶר וְגַם לַיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Excitasti victoriam tuam super eum in agitatione sommi (Est. 6:1.) noctu, Torcular calcabis custodis quærentis, quæ sit hora noctis. Clamantis custodis instar & dicentis: (Isai. 21:11-12) venitne mane redemptionis & transiit hujus captivitatis nox?
וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃ קָרֵב יוֹם אֲשֶׁר הוּא לֹא יוֹם וְלֹא לַיְלָה׃ רָם הוֹדַע כִּי לְךָ הַיּוֹם אַף לְךָ הַלַּיְלָה׃ שׁוֹמְרִים הַפְקֵד לְעִירָךְ כָׇּל הַיּוֹם וְכָׇל הַלַּיְלָה׃ תָּאִיר כְּאוֹר יוֹם חֶשְׁכַּת לַיְלָה׃ וּבְכֵן וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּֽיְלָה׃	Et suit in media nocte. Accedere fac diem, qui nec dies est nec nox. Excelse notum fac quod tuus sit dies (Ps. 74:16.) & tua sit nox. Custodes constitue Civitati tuæ tota die & nocte. Illuminabis sicuti lucem diei (Ps. 18:29) tenebras noctis. Et suit in media nocte.

This is the piyyut, Az Rov Nisim by Elazar ha-Qalir, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel as found in his translation of the Pesaḥ seder haggadah, Liber Rituum Paschalium (1644). The piyyut is based on Bamidbar Rabbah 20:11 and references the teaching in Rosh Hashanah 11b concerning the onset of the messianic age in the month of Nisan.

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).

Yanai haPayetan

Yannai (יניי or ינאי‎) was an important payyetan who lived in the late fifth-early sixth century in the Galilee in Byzantine Palestine. Sometimes referred to as the "father of piyyut," his poetry marks the beginning of the Classical Period of piyyut that ranged from the fifth-eighth centuries. He was the first poet of piyyut to sign his name in an acrostic, to use end-rhyme, and to wrote for weekly services (not just for the High Holidays and particular festivals). According to Laura Lieber, the liturgical form most associated with Yannai is the qedushta, which embellishes the first 3 blessing of the Amidah (a part of the Jewish prayer service).

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