אֲדוֹן הַכֹּל | Adon haKol, a piyyut by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi (ca. 17th c.)

Contributor(s):

Adam Zagoria-Moffet (translation) and Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi

Shared on:

23 March 2020 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Categories:

Morning Baqashot

Tags:

17th century C.E., בקשות Baqashot, 55th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, פיוטים piyyutim

TOGGLE COLUMNS (on/off):

ADJUST COLUMN POSITIONS: select the column header cell and drag it where you want. show me!

COPY INDIVIDUAL COLUMN(S): use CopyTables, a browser extension.

TABLE HELP

Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
אֲדוֹן הַכֹּל מְחַיֶּה כָל־נְשָׁמָה יְצַו חַסְדּוֹ לְבַת נָדִיב חֲכָמָה	The Liege of All who gives life to every soul, show kindness to the royal daughter of wisdom.
לְבוּשָׁה מֵעֲנַן תֹּאַר יְקָרוֹ וּמַשְׁפַּעַת עֲלֵי כָל־הָֽאֲדָמָה	Clothed in clouds, a glorious countenance bestowing Her abundance on earth.
שְׁאוֹן גַּלֵּי גְבוּל יַמִּים תְּעוֹרֵר וְעִם דּוֹדָהּ בְּצִלּוֹ נֶֽעֱלָמָה	The roar of the sea is aroused, She is sheltered beneath His shadow.
בְּחֵן בַּעְלָהּ שְׁבָטֵֽינוּ תְּנַהֵל וּמַעְלָתָהּ מְהֻדֶּֽרֶת וְרָמָה	With her gracious Husband, she leads our tribes; lofty is She, adorned and exalted.
זְמִירוֹת מִכְּנַף אֶֽרֶץ שְׁמַעְנוּם צְבִי צַדִּיק בְּמִזְרְחָה וְיָמָּה	We have heard songs from the ends of the earth. Chanting glory to a righteous one^[1] lit. “a righteous gazelle,” an allusion to Shabbetai Tsvi. –Aharon Varady in east and west.
יְשָׁרִים הוֹלְכִים תָּמִיד בְּיֹשֶׁר נְקִיִּים הֵם בְּלִי עָוֹן וְאַשְׁמָה	Honest people constantly follow the ways of righteousness. They are pure, without sin or blame.
שְׁמוּעָתָם לְטוֹב כֻּלָּם בְּרוּרִים וְלָהֶם נִכְסְפָה נַפְשִׁי בְּתֵימָא	Their name is for good, they are the chosen ones. For them my soul yearns in Yemen.
צֳרִי גִלְעָד שְׁלַח לָנוּ יְדִידִי בְּצִיּוֹן נִשְׂמְחָה גֶֽבֶר וְעַלְמָה	Send us a healing balm, Beloved One. Then young men and women in Tsiyon shall rejoice.

“Adon haKol” was composed by Shalom Shabazi, the best known Témani liturgical poet in the 17th century. The poem begins with praise to the Shəkhinah, the divine presence and concludes with the hope of redemption, acknowledging that the first signs of redemption could already be heard around the world. This english translation was first published in the Siddur Masorti (Izzun Books 2019) by Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet.

Source(s)

Notes[+]

Notes
1	lit. “a righteous gazelle,” an allusion to Shabbetai Tsvi. –Aharon Varady

. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike . 4.0 . International .

“אֲדוֹן הַכֹּל | Adon haKol, a piyyut by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi (ca. 17th c.)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Adam Zagoria-Moffet (translation)

Adam Zagoria-Moffet is the rabbi of St Albans Masorti Synagogue. He was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary where he also received an MA in Jewish Thought. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and has lived in Minnesota, New York, and Israel before moving to the UK. His interests are primarily in mysticism, ethics, and Sephardic Judaism and culture. He lives in St Albans with his family.

Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi

Rabbi Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi of the family of Mashtā (1619 – c. 1720), also Abba Sholem Shabazi or Saalem al-Shabazi (Hebrew: שלום שבזי, Arabic: سالم الشبزي‎), was a Jewish poet who lived in 17th century Yemen. He is now considered the 'Poet of Yemen'.

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=30691

Associated Image:

Laural gr2, Mon May 21, 2012, 1:54:34 PM, 8C, 5158×7650, (612+348), 100%, bent 6 stops, 1/25 s, R53.0, G43.7, B90.1

(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in category lists and in shared links on social media.)

This post, editable: XML | ODT

Terms of Use: Be a mentsch (a conscientious, considerate person) and adhere to the following guidelines:

Properly attribute the work to Adam Zagoria-Moffet (translation) and Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi.
Clearly indicate the date you accessed the work and in what ways, if any, you modified it. (If you have adapted the work, let us know so that the contributor might consider endorsing your revision.)
Provide the stable link to this resource: <https://opensiddur.org/?p=30691>.
Indicate that the original work was shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license. (To redistribute or remix this work in any format, modified or unmodified, you must refer to the terms of the license under which the work is shared.)

Note: The views expressed in this work represent the views of their creator(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Open Siddur Project's developers, its diverse community of contributors, patrons, or institutional partners.

Support this work: The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture. If you like what you've found here, please help keep our project alive and online with your financial contribution.

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