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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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אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם | Adōn Olam, translated by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow after the abridged arrangement of Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1873)

Contributed by: Marcus Jastrow, Benjamin Szold, Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

An English translation of an abridged arrangement of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Adōn Olam (rhyming translation by Jacob Waley, before 1873)

Contributed by: Jacob Waley, Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Adon Olam is a piyyut that became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038). The variation of the piyyut appearing here is the 12 line version familiar to Sepharadi congregations. (There are also fifteen and sixteen line variants found in Sepharadi siddurim. The Ashkenazi version has ten lines.) The rhyming translation here by Jacob Waley was transcribed from the prayerbook of his daughter Julia M. Cohen’s The Children’s Psalm-Book (1907), pp. 298-299. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז)‏ | Adōn Olam, translated by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (1862)

Contributed by: Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז)‏ | Adōn Olam, translated from Rabbi David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid (1858)

Contributed by: Joshua Giorgio-Rubin, David Einhorn, Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The German translation of “Adon Olam” appearing here is as found in Rabbi David Einhorn’s עלת תמיד Gebetbuch für Israelitische Reform-Gemeinden (1858), pp. 1-2. The English translation here, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin, translating Rabbi David Einhorn, is as found in Rubin’s Olat Hadashah: A Modern Adaptation of David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid for Shabbat Evening (2020), p. 14. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Adōn Olam, rhyming translation by Rosa Emma Salaman (1855)

Contributed by: Rosa Emma Salaman, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A rhyming English translation of Adon Olam by Rosa Emma Salaman. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז)‏ | Adōn Olam (rhyming translation by George Borrow, 1842)

Contributed by: George Borrow, Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Adon Olam is a piyyut that became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038). The variation of the piyyut appearing here is the 10 line version familiar to Ashkenazi congregations. (There are also twelve, fifteen, and sixteen line variants found in Sepharadi siddurim.) The rhyming translation here by George Borrow was shared in his tales in The Bible in Spain (1843), p. 222. (The text in the 1913 edition on page 546 is a bit easier to read.) . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Adōn Olam (rhyming translation by David de Aaron de Sola, 1836)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol

Adon Olam is a piyyut that became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038). The variation of the piyyut appearing here is the 12 line version familiar to Sepharadi congregations. (There are also fifteen and sixteen line variants found in Sepharadi siddurim. The Ashkenazi version has ten lines.) The rhyming translation here by David de Aaron de Sola was transcribed from his prayerbook Seder haTefilot vol. 1 (1836), p. 122. . . .


התפילות של מרדכי ואסתר | the Prayers of Mordekhai and Esther, from Divrei haYamim l’Yeraḥmiel (ca. 11-12th c.)

Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The dream and prayer of Mordecai, and the prayer of Esther, as copied in the medieval pseudo-historical Chronicle of Yeraḥmiel. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם | Before the Glorious Orbs of Light, a paraliturgical adaptation of Adon Olam by David Nunes Carvalho (ca. 1826)

Contributed by: Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Reformed Society of Israelites, David Nunes Carvalho, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A paraliturgical adaptation of the piyyut Adon Olam by an early leader of the Reform movement. . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Adōn Olam, translation by Isaac Pinto (1766)

Contributed by: Isaac Pinto (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

This is Isaac Pinto’s English translation of Adon Olam from Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-Hashanah, and [Yom] Kippur (1766), p. 29. The translation there appears without the Hebrew. The Hebrew text of the piyyut set side-by-side with the translation was transcribed from Rabbi David de Sola Pool’s Tefilot l’Rosh haShanah (1937). . . .


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Adōn Olam, translation by Ḥakham Ishak Nieto (1740)

Contributed by: Ishac Nieto, Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Ḥakham Ishak Nieto’s translation of Adon Olam was first printed on page 197 of Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kipur (1740), his maḥzor in Spanish translation for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. The Hebrew text of the piyyut set side-by-side with the translation was transcribed from Rabbi David de Sola Pool’s Tefilot l’Rosh haShanah (1937). . . .


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

Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol included in the arrangement of Baqashot before the morning service in the liturgical custom of Sefaradim translated by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola. . . .


שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ | Shaḥar Avaqeshkha (At dawn I seek you), a reshut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.) translated by Nina Salaman (1901)

Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The reshut for praying at dawn, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .


אֶזְכְּרָה מָצוֹק | Ezkerah Matsōk (“I remember the distress”), a seliḥah for the Fast of Tevet attributed to Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils (11th c.)

Contributed by: David Asher (translation), Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

“Ezkera Matsok” (I remember the distress) is a seliḥah in alphabetic acrostic recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . .


שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ | Shaḥar Avaqeshkha (At dawn I seek you), a reshut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.) translated by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola (1857)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol

The reshut for praying at dawn, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .


בַּחֹֽדֶשׁ הָֽרְבִיעִי | baḤodesh haRevi’i (In the fourth month), a ḳinah for the 17th of Tamuz attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.)

Contributed by: Isaac Leeser (translation), Unknown (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The seliḥah with its English translation as found in Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 6: Seder haTefilot laTaaniyot (ed. Isaac Leeser 1838) p.107-109. . . .


לְמַעַנְךָ וְלֹא לָנוּ | l’Maankha v’lo lanu (For your sake, not for ours), a piyyut by an unknown paytan (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

This translation by Rabbi David de Aaron de Sola of “Lema’ankha v’lo lanu” by an unknown paytan was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .


הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל | Hamavdil Ben Ḳodesh l’Ḥol, a piyyut attributed to Yitsḥaq ben Yehudah ibn Ghayyat (German translation by Franz Rosenzweig 1921)

Contributed by: Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The text of the piyyut, “HaMavdil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .


הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל | Hamavdil Ben Ḳodesh l’Ḥol, a piyyut attributed to Yitsḥaq ben Yehudah ibn Ghayyat (rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

Contributed by: Alice Lucas (translation), Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A rhymed translation of the piyyut sung following the Havdallah ritual. . . .


אַקְדָמוּת מִילִין | Aḳdamut Milin, a preface to the Targum for the Shavuot Torah Reading, attributed to Meir ben Isaac Nehorai of Orléans (ca. 11th c.)

Contributed by: Cantor Hinda Labovitz, Meir ben Isaac Nehorai of Orléans, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

An Aramaic piyyut composed as an introduction to the reading of the Targum for the Torah reading on Shavuot. . . .