כָּל־בְּרוּאֵי | Kol B’ru-ei, a piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

Contributor(s): David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
כָּל־בְּרוּאֵי מַעְלָה וּמַטָּה יְעִידוּן יַגִּידוּן כֻּלָּם כְּאֶחָד ה׳ אֶחָד וּשְׁמוֹ אֶחָד	All created beings, celestial and terrestrial, Testify and declare, with unanimous sound, That the Lord is ONE, His name the only ONE.
שְׁלוֹשִׁים וּשְׁתַּיִם נְתִיבוֹת שְׁבִילָךְ לְכָל־מֵבִין סוֹדָם יְסַפְּרוּ גָדְלָךְ מֵהֶם יַכִּירוּן כִּי הַכֹּל שֶׁלָּךְ וְאַתָּה הָאֵל הַמֶּלֶךְ הַֽמְּיֻחָד	Interminable^[1] Heb. Thirty-two, according to a cabalistical system in the Book Yetsirah. I have, however, rendered it more according to the spirit than to the letter. are Thy wisdom’s paths. They who penetrated their mystery can alone relate Thy greatness. They acknowledge that all are derived from Thee, And that Thou art the only God and King!
לְבָבוֹת בְּחָשְׁבָם עוֹלָם בָּנוּי יִמְצְאוּ כָל־יֵשׁ בִּלְתְּךָ שָׁנוּי בְּמִסְפָּר בְּמִשְׁקָל הַכֹּל מָנוּי כֻּלָּם נִתְּנוּ מֵרוֹעֶה אֶחָד	When the mind contemplates the world’s structure, It finds all but Thee subject to corruption and change; That everything was numbered and weighed by Thee;^[2] i.e. their quantity and quality were fixed and determined at their creation. And that all derive their existence from One eternal source.
מֵרֹאשׁ וְעַד סוֹף יֵשׁ לְךָ סִמָּן צָפוֹן וָיָם וְקֶֽדֶם וְתֵימָן שַֽׁחַק וְתֵֽבֵל לְךָ עֵד נֶֽאֱמָן מִזֶּה אֶחָד וּמִזֶּה אֶחָד	In every extreme of the universe Thou hast established determined signs. North, West, East and South, Heaven and Earth, Attest Thy almighty power on every side.
הַכֹּל מִמְּךָ נִזְבַּד זָבוֹד אַתָּה תַֽעֲמֹד וְהֵם יֹאבְדוּ אָבוֹד לָכֵן כָּל־יְצוּר לְךָ יִתֵּן כָּבוֹד כִּי מֵרֹאשׁ וְעַד־סוֹף הֲלֹא אָב אֶחָד׃	Their order and union were fixed by Thee; They all must perish, and Thou alone remain. Let, therefore, every creature ascribe glory unto Thee, Since Thou alone, O Father, existent eternally.

This translation of “Kol Beruei” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857).

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1	Heb. Thirty-two, according to a cabalistical system in the Book Yetsirah. I have, however, rendered it more according to the spirit than to the letter.
2	i.e. their quantity and quality were fixed and determined at their creation.

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David de Aaron de Sola (translation)

David de Aaron de Sola or David Aaron de Sola (1796 – 1860) (Hebrew: דוד אהרן די סולה) was a rabbi and author, born in Amsterdam, the son of Aaron de Sola. In 1818, D.A. de Sola was called to London to become one of the ministers of the Bevis Marks Congregation under Haham Raphael Meldola (who would also later become his father-in-law). De Sola's addresses before the Society for the Cultivation of Hebrew Literature led the mahamad (board of directors of the congregation) to appoint him to deliver discourses in the vernacular, and on March 26, 1831, he preached the first sermon in English ever heard within the walls of Bevis Marks Synagogue (all previous ones being spoken in Spanish or Portuguese). His discourses were subsequently published by the mahamad. Of his style, one observer wrote: "Though a scholar and a thinker, yet he...used the most unpedantic terms and assumed a quiet, colloquial manner.

Shlomo ibn Gabirol

Solomon ibn Gabirol (also Solomon ben Judah; Hebrew: שלמה בן יהודה אבן גבירול‎ Shlomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol, Arabic: أبو أيوب سليمان بن يحيى بن جبيرول‎ Abu Ayyub Sulayman bin Yahya bin Jabirul, Latin: Avicebron or Avencebrol) was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics, and satire.

Aharon N. Varady (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.)

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