Olenu, a paraliturgical adaptation of Aleinu by Lise Tarlau (1907)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Lise Tarlau

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Aleinu

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Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, עלינו Aleinu, paraliturgical aleinu, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M.

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Source (German)	Translation (English)
Olenu.	Aleinu.
Ein herrlich Erbteil is uns Pflicht geworden, Dir, Herr, zu dienen, Dir zu huldigen Und Deine Macht voll Ehrfurcht zu bekennen. Du hast uns unterschieden von den Völkern, Die vor uns waren, die mit uns einst gingen Ein Stück des Weges und dahin dann schwanden Spurlos wie Spreu, die von dem Wind verweht. Ein gleiches Los, es ist nicht uns geworden. Wir sind durchs Meer der Zeiten trocknen Fußes Auf Dich vertrauend stets hindurchgeschritten, Indes sich hinter uns die Wellen türmten Und manches Feindes bittren Haß begruben.	A glorious inheritance has become our obligation: To serve you, O Lord, to worship you And to declare your power with reverence. You have set us apart from the nations, Those who came before us, who once walked with us A part of the way and then vanished Trackless as chaff, blown away by the wind. A similar fate, has not befallen us. We have passed through the Sea of Time with dry feet Trusting in You, we have always passed through, While behind us the waves piled up And buried many an enemy’s bitter hate.
Drum beugen wir das Knie und bücken uns Voll Ehrfurcht, Herr, vor Dir, dem Heiligen, Der hoch und hehr die blauen Himmel spannte Und der die Erde hält in starker Hand. Es tronet Deine stolze Herrlichkeit In höchsten Höh’n. Es waltet Deine Macht In allen Himmeln und in unseren Herzen. Du nur bist unser Gott und keiner sonst, Du unser Herr, und keiner außer Dir, Du unser König, dem wir liebend dienen.	Therefore we bend the knee and prostrate ourselves In reverence, O Lord, to you, the Holy One, Who stretched the blue heavens high and sublime And who holds the earth in a strong hand. Your lofty glory enthroned In the highest heights. Your power reigns In all the heavens and in our hearts. You alone are our God and no one else, You our Lord, and none but you, You our King, whom we lovingly serve.
Drum lebt die Hoffnung auch in unserer Seele, Daß alles Böse, alle Missetaten, Daß Haß und Zwietracht aus der Menschen Herzen Verschwinden werden, und die ganze Welt Erfüllt wird endlich sein von Deinem Lichte. Von Dir und Deiner Herrlichkeit bezwungen Wird jedes Erdenkind vor Dir sich beugen, Und jede Zunge Deinen Ruhm verkünden, Und jedes Herz nach Deiner Gnade lechzen; Und alle werden Deinen Namen rufen Und Dich erkennen und einmütig sich Und freudig stellen unter Deine Hut. Und was wir jetzt noch kaum zu träumen wagen, Wird Wahrheit sein in jenen fernen Tagen, Wo Dein das Reich und Dein die Herrlichkeit, Wo Du regierst und alle Herzen lenkst Und selbst dem Sünder Deine Gnade schenkst, Du, Einer, Einziger in Ewigkeit.	Therefore, hope also lives in our soul, That all evil, all misdeeds, That hatred and discord from the hearts of men Will disappear, and the whole world Will at last be filled with your light. Conquered by you and your glory Every earthly child will bow before you, And every tongue shall proclaim your glory, And every heart shall long for your grace; And all shall call upon your name And recognize you, and unanimously And joyfully place themselves under your protection. And what we now hardly dare to dream, Will be true in those far-off days, When yours will be the kingdom and yours the glory, Where you rule and direct all hearts And even to the sinner bestow your grace, You, One, Only One in Eternity.

“Olenu” 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 80-81.

The transcription of the German provided machine-readable text for machine translations by DeepL, which we then edited for accuracy and clarity. We welcome any/all corrections, improvements, and additional transcriptions and translations of this work’s contents. –Aharon Varady

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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.)

Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer translator for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his translations, 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 transcribes prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes for the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Lise Tarlau

Lise Tarlau (also known as L'Ysaye/Isaye/Ysaye/Ysale, Lisa, Lize, Elizabeth, Luise, and Louise Tarleau; 1879-1952), was a writer born to a prominent Viennese Bohemian Jewish family, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch and Laura Lachmann. In an essay published in 1906, "The Religious Problem," she expressed enthusiasm for Zionism and a deep sympathy for East European, Yiddish speaking Jewry, praising them for having retained their own distinctive cultural identity and their own language. This posture was accompanied by harsh criticism of Western European Jewish cultural assimilation, writing that they have “lived as parasites on the creative possibilities of the dreams of beauty of other peoples” (as quoted in Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away, 2003). Before emigrating to the United States in 1908, nearly two dozen prayers she wrote were published in Beruria (1907), an anthology of teḥinot in German compiled by her sister's husband Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald. A decade later in the US, Houghton Mifflin Company and Riverside Press published The Inn of Disenchantment (1917), a collection of her prose and several short stories. Tarlau's fiction also appeared in major magazines of the day, including The Nation (105:2725, September 20, 1917), The Atlantic Monthly (in 1919), and Harper's Magazine. In 1924, her short story "Loutré" was awarded second place in Harper's first ever short story contest. During World War II, she wrote a number of scripts for radio and film and worked as a translator for the US military. Several of her works were included in The Fireside Book of Romance (ed. C. Edward Wagenknecht, 1948). She died on October 9, 1952 in Kew Gardens, Queens, Long Island, New York.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17