מַה־טֹּבוּ | Mah Tovu: Prayer upon Entering the Synagogue (Romanian trans. Avraham Shlomo Gold, ca. 1903)

Contributor(s): Abraham Shlomo Gold (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Shared on: 9 July 2017 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., מה טבו mah tovu, Needing Proofreading, Openers, Romanian translation, Sepharadi, Synagogues

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 (Romanian)
	In faţa Sinagogii:
מַה־נּוֺרָֽה הַמָּקֽוֺם הַזֶּֽה, אֵין זֶה כִּי אִם־בֵּית אֶלֹהִים, וְזֶה שַׁעַר הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃	Cât de venerat e locul acesta! Nu e alta, de cât casa lui Dumnezeu, şi iată poarta cerului!^[1] Genesis 28:17.
	La intrarea in tindă:
וַֽאֲנִי, בְּרֹֽב חַסְדְּךָ, אָבֹֽא בֵיתֶֽךָ, אֶשְׁתַּֽחֲוֶה אֶל־הֵיכַל קָדְשְׁךָ, בְּיִרְאָתֶֽךָ׃	Şi eu—încrezându-mă in nemărginitul tău har—vin în casa ta, mă închin în sfântul tău Templu, cu respect către tine.^[2] Psalms 5:8.
	Inaintând respectuos pas cu pas:
בְּבֵֽית אֱלֹהִים נְהַלֵּֽךְ בְּרָֽגֶשׁ׃	In casa lui D-zeu mergem cu evlavie.^[3] Psalms 55:15.
	Versete edificatoare din Biblie la intrarea în Sinagogă.^[4] Această rugăciune, ca multe altele din Ritualul nostru, este alcătuită din felurite versete din Sfânta Scritpurӑ, astfel reunite, pentru a formà un intreg perfect.
מַה־טֹּבֽוּ אֹהָלֶֽיךָ יַעֲקֹב, מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶֽיךָ, יִשְׂרָאֵל: וַֽאֲנִי, בְּרֹב חַסְדְּךָ, אָבֹא בֵיתֶֽךָ, אֶשְׁתַּֽחֲוֶה אֶל־הֵיכַל קָדְשְׁךָ, בְּיִרְאָתֶֽךָ: יְהֹוָה, אָהַבְתִּי מְעוֹן בֵּיתֶֽךָ, וּמְקוֹם, מִשְׁכַּן כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ: וַֽאֲנִי אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה וְאֶכְרָֽעָה, אֶבְרְכָה לִפְנֵי־יְהֹוָה עֹשִׂי: וַֽאֲנִי תְפִילָתִי־לְךָ ׀ יְהֹוָה עֵת רָצוֹן. אֱלֹהִים, בְּרָב־חַסְדֶּךָ, עֲנֵֽנִי בֶּאֱמֶת יִשְׁעֶֽךָ:	Cât de frumoase sunt corturile tale, Iakobe! lăcaşurile tale, Israele!^[5] Numbers 24:5. Şi eu — încrezându-mă în nemărginitul tău har — vin în casa ta, mă închin în sfântul tău Templu, cu respect către tine.^[6] Psalms 5:8. Doamne, iubesc sălaşul casei tale, şi locul, unde tronează mărirea ta.^[7] Psalms 26:8. Mă închin dar, îngenuchiez şi mă prostern înaintea Domnului, Creatorul meu.^[8] Psalms 95:6. Indreptez ruga mea către tine, Doamne, la vremea de bunăvoinţă; Dumnezeule, în nemărginitul tău har, auzi-mă prin ajutorul tău cel adevărat.^[9] Psalms 69:14.

To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the prayer upon entering the synagogue from סדר תפילות לכל השנה Ordinea Rugăciunilor pentru toate zilele anului (nusaḥ Sefaradi, minhag Romania) translated into Romanian by Rabbi Abraham Shlomo Gold (Institutul de editura Ralian si Ignat Samitca, Craiova, 1903). A video of this siddur can be seen on youtube here. We would like to know more about Rabbi Gold; if you have any information, please contact us.

Source

Notes[+]

Notes
1	Genesis 28:17.
2	Psalms 5:8.
3	Psalms 55:15.
4	Această rugăciune, ca multe altele din Ritualul nostru, este alcătuită din felurite versete din Sfânta Scritpurӑ, astfel reunite, pentru a formà un intreg perfect.
5	Numbers 24:5.
6	Psalms 5:8.
7	Psalms 26:8.
8	Psalms 95:6.
9	Psalms 69:14.

. Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication . 1.0 . Universal .

“מַה־טֹּבוּ | Mah Tovu: Prayer upon Entering the Synagogue (Romanian trans. Avraham Shlomo Gold, ca. 1903)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal license.

Abraham Shlomo Gold (translation)

fost grad. Rabin, Predicator şi Profesor de la Seminarul rabinic din Alsatia-Lorena, diplomă de capacitate de la Academia de Teolog. isr. din Viena, fost profesor la "Gimnaziul Evreesc“ din Capitală, fost director al şcoalei "Luca Moise“ din Ploeşti şi al ziarelor "Fraternitatea", Apărătorul" şi "Vocea Stonului“.

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.)

Pocket Pinterest Reddit 𝕏 Facebook Telegram WhatsApp SMS Email

Works of related interest:

מַה־טֹּבוּ | Priêre en entrant dans le Temple, a paraliturgical Mah Tovu by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1848)

מַה־טֹּבֽוּ | Mah Tovu, translated from Rabbi David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid (1858) by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin (2020)

"Tea bowl fixed in the Kintsugi method" (Public Domain). Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

מַה־טֹּבוּ | Mah Tovu, a paraliturgical reflection by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman

מַה נָּאווּ עֲלֵי | Mah Navu Alei, a piyyut by Rabbi Shimon bar Nissim (ca. 20th c.)

Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus (Meir Letteris 1857) - cropped

Gebet beim Eintritt in das Gotteshaus | Prayer upon entering the house of God, by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)

Henry Morgenthau Jr., Eugene R. Black, George F. Warren, Samuel Rosman and James Harvey Rogers attend as President Roosevelt signs the Gold Reserve Act into law, 30 January 1934 (credit: Underwood & Underwood) in the collection of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

[Prayer] on Abandoning the Gold Standard, by Rabbi Norman M. Goldburg (21 April 1933)

Siddur Tefilat Yisrael (Moses Gaster 1883) - title

📖 סדור תפלת ישראל (אשכנז) | Siddur Tefilat Yisrael: Carte de Rugăcĭunĭ Pentru Israeliţĭ (Romanian translation by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster, 1883)

prev next

3 comments to מַה־טֹּבוּ | Mah Tovu: Prayer upon Entering the Synagogue (Romanian trans. Avraham Shlomo Gold, ca. 1903)

Madeleine CentBilly
2017-07-09 at 5:57 am · Reply.
Multumim, o surpriza placuta. Thank you, it is a very pleasant surprise
- Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
  2017-07-09 at 11:28 am · Reply.
  You’re welcome! Please help to proofread our transcription of the Romanian.
  - Madeleine CentBilly
    2017-07-09 at 12:30 pm · Reply.
    Well, I like the translation; it is a little bit old Romanian but it has a unique pefume. Beautiful!

Comments, Corrections, and QueriesCancel reply

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=15799

Associated Image:

(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in category pages and 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 Abraham Shlomo Gold (translation) 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=15799>.
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