🆕 Aschrei — a paraliturgical Ashrei on relating to the divine by Rivka Jaussi

Contributor(s):

Rivka Jaussi and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Shared on:

28 July 2025 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Categories:

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, paraliturgical Ashrei, תחינות teḥinot

Source (German)	Translation (English)
mein G’ dir danken alle deine werke. dich rühmen deine heiligen – mit meinen worten will auch ich dich preisen. in deinem namen will ich segnen und ein segen sein für andere – täglich will ich so dir ehre erweisen.	my God, all your works give thanks to you. your holy ones praise you— with my words, I too want to praise you. in your name, I want to bless and be a blessing to others— every day, I want to honor you in this way.
mein G’ generation um generation erzählt von deinen wundern^[1] wundern: vgl. Ps. 71:17; Ps. 75:2 und deinem schweigen – auch ich bin ein zeugnis dafür. du schenkst zuwendung denen, die nach dir fragen – so wende auch ich mich zu dir.	my God, generation after generation tells of your wonders^[2] Find Psalms 71:17, Psalms 75:2 and your silence— I too am a witness to this. you give attention to those who ask for you— so I too turn to you.
mein G’ deine einzigartigkeit versuch ich zu verstehen, jetzt und immer wieder – in meinem gebet, in meinem tun.	my God I try to understand your uniqueness, now and again and again— in my prayer, in my actions.

This paraliturgical Ashrei was written in German by Rivka Jaussi. The English translation was offered by Aharon Varady.

Notes

Notes
1	wundern: vgl. Ps. 71:17; Ps. 75:2
2	Find Psalms 71:17, Psalms 75:2

. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike . 4.0 . International .

“Aschrei — a paraliturgical Ashrei on relating to the divine by Rivka Jaussi” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Rivka Jaussi

As a German-speaking poet, I translate Jewish prayers and Torah passages interpretatively into German. I am inspired by conversations with other Jews who are looking for a contemporary German translation that can be used alongside or in place of the Hebrew. This was my experience with the first egalitarian Minyan group in Berlin between 1995 and 1998. The group initially met in private rooms and later moved to Oranienburger Straße. The basis was an "Open Siddur" that developed over the years. Today, an egalitarian congregation with its own ritual is located in the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße.

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.)

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=63057

Associated Image:

“Content with Silence” (Laszlo Iyles, CC BY-SA)

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

Source Data: XML | JSON

Re-formatted: HTML | ODT

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

Properly attribute the work to Rivka Jaussi and Aharon N. Varady (translation).
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=63057>.
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

Pocket Reddit Facebook Bluesky Telegram WhatsApp SMS Email