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הַכְנִיסִינִי תַּחַת כְּנָפֵךְ |
Take Me Under Your Wing |
הַכְנִיסִינִי תַּחַת כְּנָפֵךְ, וַהֲיִי לִי אֵם וְאָחוֹת, וִיהִי חֵיקֵךְ מִקְלַט רֹאשִׁי, קַן־תְּפִלּוֹתַי הַנִּדָּחוֹת. |
Take me under your wing, be my mother, my sister. Take my head to your breast, my banished prayers to your nest. |
וּבְעֵת רַחֲמִים, בֵּין־הַשְּׁמָשׁוֹת, שְׁחִי וַאֲגַל לָךְ סוֹד יִסּוּרָי: אוֹמְרִים, יֵשׁ בָּעוֹלָם נְעוּרִים – הֵיכָן נְעוּרָי? |
One merciful twilight hour, hear my pain, bend your head. They say there is youth in the world. Where has my youth fled? |
וְעוֹד רָז אֶחָד לָךְ אֶתְוַדֶּה: נַפְשִׁי נִשְׂרְפָה בְלַהֲבָהּ; אוֹמְרִים, אַהֲבָה יֵשׁ בָּעוֹלָם – מַה־זֹּאת אַהֲבָה? |
Listen! another secret: I have been seared by a flame. They say there is love in the world. How do we know love’s name? |
הַכּוֹכָבִים רִמּוּ אוֹתִי, הָיָה חֲלוֹם – אַךְ גַּם הוּא עָבָר; עַתָּה אֵין לִי כְלוּם בָּעוֹלָם – אֵין לִי דָבָר. |
I was deceived by the stars. There was a dream; it passed. I have nothing at all in the world, nothing but a vast waste. |
הַכְנִיסִינִי תַּחַת כְּנָפֵךְ, וַהֲיִי לִי אֵם וְאָחוֹת, וִיהִי חֵיקֵךְ מִקְלַט רֹאשִׁי, קַן־תְּפִלּוֹתַי הַנִּדָּחוֹת. |
Take me under your wing, be my mother, my sister. Take my head to your breast, my banished prayers to your nest. |
“Take me under your wing” was written on 17 February 1905 (12 Adar I 5665). The transcription of the Hebrew was made by the Ben Yehuda Project. English translation by Ruth Nevo for Chaim Nachman Bialik: Selected Poems (Dvir and the Jerusalem Post 1981).
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Take me under your wing, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik (Hebrew) Take me under your wing, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik (trans. Ruth Nevo)
“הַכְנִיסִינִי תַּחַת כְּנָפֵךְ | Take Me Under Your Wing, by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1905)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project under their Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use), in respect to the copyrighted material included. Any additional work that is not already in the Public Domain is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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