![the Open Siddur Project [logo]](https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2016.svg){kind=logo}
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.
| Source (Hebrew) | Translation (English) |
|---|---|
אֲגַדֶלְךָ אֳלֹהֵי כָּל נְשָׁמָה. וְאוֹדֶךָ בְּרֹב פַּחַד וְאֵימָה. |
I will speak of your greatness, elo’ah of all souls, and I will praise you, with much fear and awe, |
בְּעֹמְדִי תוֹךְ קְהַלְךָ צוּר לְרוֹמֵם. לְךָ אֶכְרַע וְאֶכוֹף רֹאשׁ וְקוֹמָה. |
While I stand within your congregation, forever exalting, to you I will bend my knees and lower my head and stature. |
רְקִיעֵי רוּם הַלֹא נַטָה בְּמִבְטָא. וְהָאָרֶץ יְסַדָה עַל בְּלִימָה. |
Hashem planted the stars with their speech, and anchored the land to nothingness.[1] cf. Job 26:7, a reference also to the Sefer Yetsirah. |
הַיוּכַל אִישׁ חֲקוֹר אֶת סוֹד יוֹצְרוֹ. וּמִי הוּא זֶה בְּכֹל קֶדְמָה וְיַמָה. |
Can a man investigate the secret of Hashem’s creation? And who is that who is in every direction? |
מְרוֹמַם הוּא עֲלֵי כָּל פֶּה וְלָשׁוֹן. אֲשֶׁר הִפְלִיא וְעֲשָׂה כָּל בְּחֹכְמָה. |
Hashem are praised by every mouth and tongue, which Hashem miraculously made their wisdom. |
וְיִתְגַדָל בְּגוֹי קָדוֹשׁ וְעֶלְיוֹן. וְיִתְקַדָש שְׁמֵיה רַבָּא בְּעַלְמָא. |
And Hashem is exalted by a holy and supernal nation, may Hashem’s great name be made holy in the world! |
A short piyyut by Avraham Ibn Ezra, whose first name is signed in an acrostic. The translation here, from an unknown and anonymous contributor to zemirotdatabase.org, follows after the translation that Honi Sanders and I published in the birkon for his wedding, Siman l’Vanim (Dimus Parrhesia Press 2019) with some minor changes. –Aharon Varady
Source(s)
Notes
| 1 | cf. Job 26:7, a reference also to the Sefer Yetsirah. |
|---|
“אֲגַדֶלְךָ | Agadelkha, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.) translation by Anonymous” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
Stable Link:
https://opensiddur.org/?p=29727
Associated Image:
“Observable Universe Logarithmic Illustration” by Pablo Carlos Budassi, a CC BY-SA licensed logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe with the Solar System at the center, inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, nearby galaxies, Cosmic Web, Cosmic microwave radiation and Big Bang’s invisible plasma on the edge.
(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)
Terms of Use:
Be a mentsch (a conscientious, considerate person) and adhere to the following guidelines:
- Properly attribute the work to Unknown Translator(s), Avraham ibn Ezra and Aharon N. Varady (transcription).
- 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=29727>.
- 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.)
Additional Notes:
- 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 volunteer contributors, or its institutional partners.
- We strongly advise against printing sacred texts and art containing divine names as these copies must be regarded with reverence, complicating their casual treatment and disposal.
- If you must dispose of a printed sacred text (one containing Divine Names), please locate the closest genizah (often established by a synagogue) and contact its custodians for further instructions. We also recommend using Morah Yehudis Fishman's Prayer for Adding a Work to the Genizah.
Support this work:
The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, 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.
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
Comments, Corrections, and Queries