אֲסַדֵּר לִסְעוּדָתָא | Asader liS’udata, a piyyut for Shabbat morning by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria

Shared on:

21 March 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Categories:

Se'udat Yom Shabbat

Tags:

Lurianic Kabbalah, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, devotional interpretation, Atqinu Seudata, interpretive translation, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim

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 (Aramaic)	Translation (English)
אֲסַדֵּר לִסְעוּדָתָא. בְּצַפְרָא דְשַׁבַּתָּא. וְאַזְמִין בָּהּ הַשְׁתָּא. עַתִּיקָא קַדִּישָׁא׃	On Sabbath’s morn This feast is set God beyond All Presides this time.
נְהוֹרֵיהּ יִשְׁרֵי בָהּ. בְּקִידוּשָׁא רַבָּא. וּבְחַמְרָא טָבָא. דְּבֵהּ תֶּחֱדֵי נַפְשָׁא׃	Now Souls rejoice The cup is full The hallowing vast The halo bright.
יְשַׁדֵּר לָן שׁוּפְרֵהּ. וְנֶחֱזֵי בִיקָרֵהּ. וְיַחֲזֵי לָן סִתְרֵהּ. דְּאִתְאַמַּר בִּלְחִישָׁא׃	Your glory is cast Your precious sight Secrets whispered You share with us.
יְגַלֵּי לָן טַעֲמֵי. דְּבִתְרֵיסַר נַהֲמֵי. דְּאִינוּן אָת בִּשְׁמֵהּ. כְּפִילָא וּקְלִישָׁא׃	You give us the clue To breads ten and two Breathed out and in Two letters of thy name.
צְרוֹרָא דִלְעֵילָא. דְּבֵהּ חַיֵּי כֹלָּא. וְיִתְרַבֵּי חֵילָא. וְתִיסַק עַד רֵישָׁא׃	Supernal bond All life’s warrant Its pow’r increased To the highest raised.
חֲדוּ חַצְדֵּי (נ״א: מְחַצְדֵּי) חַקְלָא. בְּדִבּוּר וּבְקָלָא. וּמַלְלוּ מִלָּה. מְתִיקָא כְּדוּבְשָׁא׃	Husbands of Earth Joy in full voice And speak the word As honey sweet.
קֳדָם רִבּוֹן עָלְמִין. בְּמִלִּין סְתִימִין. תְּגַלּוּן פִּתְגָמִין. וְתֵימְרוּן חִדּוּשָׁא׃	Quotes new and bold Before the Kind, of old Of lore arcane Reveal the same.
לְעַטֵּר פְּתוֹרָא. בְּרָזָא יַקִּירָא. עֲמִיקָא וּטְמִירָא. וְלָאו מִילְּתָא אַוְשָׁא׃	Let’s garland this table With dear secret fable Profoundly related Not openly stated.
וְאִלֵּין מִלַּיָּא. יְהוֹן לִרְקִיעַיָּא. וְתַמָּן מָאן שַׁרְיָא. הֲלָא הַהוּא שִׁמְשָׁא׃	Up, up to the skies These words help us rise And there to find ease The sun’s healing rays.
רְבוּ יַתִּיר יַסְגֵּי. לְעֵילָא מִן דַּרְגֵּהּ. וְיִסַּב בַּת זוּגֵהּ. דַּהֲוַת פְּרִישָׁא׃	Rich increase appears Beyond ranks that are carved Mates once separated Now fully are mated.
יָדַי אַסְחֵי אֲנָא. לְגַבֵּי חַד מָנָא. לְסִטְרָא חוֹרִינָא. דְּלֵית בָּהּ מַמָּשָׁא׃
אֲזַמֵּן בִּתְלָתָא. בְּכַסָּא דְבִרְכָתָא. לְעִלַּת עִלָּתָא. עַתִּיקָא קַדִּישָׁא׃
	In this rhyme of Luria’s Two stanzas are left Incomplete by the author On purpose I think. All will be completed When all is completed Until we are redeemed These remain deleted.

This paraliturgical translation by Reb Zalman of Yitsḥaq Luria’s “Atqinu Seudata” for Shabbat morning can be found in print as published in his All Breathing Life: At the Interface Between Poetry and Prayer: translations and compositions of Jewish sacred literature (ed. Michael Kagan, 2011: Gaon Books), pp. 69-70. The last two stanzas are left untranslated, as explicated in Reb Zalman’s poetic rendering, “by the author” by which he means by himself (the author of the translation). If you have any more information about the context for these omissions, please leave a comment or contact us.

. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike . 4.0 . International .

“אֲסַדֵּר לִסְעוּדָתָא | Asader liS’udata, a piyyut for Shabbat morning by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Rabbi Dr. Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, affectionately known as "Reb Zalman" (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014) was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Żółkiew, Poland (now Ukraine) and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy Regime but managed to flee the Nazi advance, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the ḤaBaD Hasidic movement while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served ḤaBaD communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He subsequently earned an M.A. in psychology of religion at Boston University, and a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. He was initially sent out to speak on college campuses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in the early 1960s, after experimenting with "the sacramental value of lysergic acid", the main ingredient in LSD, leadership within ḤaBaD circles cut ties with him. He continued teaching the Torah of Ḥassidut until the end of his life to creative, free and open-minded Jewish thinkers with humility and kindness and established warm ecumenical ties as well. In September 2009, he became the first contributor of a siddur to the Open Siddur Project database of Jewish liturgy and related work. Reb Zalman supported the Open Siddur Project telling its founder, "this is what I've been looking forward to!" and sharing among many additional works of liturgy, an interview he had with Havurah magazine in the early to mid-1980s detailing his vision of "Database Davenen." The Open Siddur Project is proud to be realizing one of Reb Zalman's long held dreams.

Yitsḥak Luria

Yitsḥak Luria Ashkenazi (1534 – July 25, 1572) (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי, English: Isaac ben Solomon or Yitzhak ben Shlomo Lurya Ashkenazi), commonly known as "Ha'ARI" (meaning "The Lion"), "Ha'ARI Hakadosh" [the holy ARI] or "ARIZaL" [the ARI, Of Blessed Memory (Zikhrono Livrakha)], was a foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria. He is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah, his teachings being referred to as Lurianic Kabbalah. The works of his disciples compiled his oral teachings into writing and spread his fame which led to his veneration and the acceptance of his authority. Every custom of the Ari was scrutinized, and many were accepted, even against previous practice. Luria died at Safed on July 25, 1572 (5 Av 5332). He was buried in the Old Cemetery of Safed (from wikipedia)

Pocket Pinterest Reddit 𝕏 Facebook Telegram WhatsApp SMS Email

Works of related interest:

בְּנֵי הֵיכָלָא | Bnei Heikhala, a piyyut for Shabbat afternoon by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

אֲזַמֵּר בִּשְׁבָחִין | Azamer biShvaḥin, a piyyut for Friday evening by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

Illustrated Kabbalat Shabbat Siddur - Page 53 by Daniel Nebenzahl (license: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a Shabbat hymn attributed to Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Vernal pool, Columbia Wildlife Management Area, Warren County (Public Domain)

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (abridged rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Nina Salaman, 1914)

ריבונו של עולם הריני מוחל | Prayer of Forgiveness from the Bedtime Shema, by Rabbi Yitsḥak Luria z”l (translation by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

prev next

Comments, Corrections, and QueriesCancel reply

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=43365

Associated Image:

yud

(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 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria.
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=43365>.
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 contributors, patrons, or 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-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. If you like what you've found here, please help keep our project alive and online with your financial contribution.

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