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. . . .
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). . . .
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Unknown, the Mesorah (TaNaKh), the Mesorah (Masoretic layer 'J'), the Mesorah (Masoretic kernel 'E')
The prayers invoking the memory of the Aqeidat Yitsḥaq (Genesis 22:1-19) in the morning preparatory prayers in the liturgical custom of the Sefaradim. . . .
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Unknown, the Mesorah (TaNaKh), the Mesorah (Masoretic layer 'J'), the Mesorah (Masoretic kernel 'E')
The prayers invoking the memory of the Aqeidat Yitsḥaq (Genesis 22:1-19) in the morning preparatory prayers in the liturgical custom of Ashkenaz. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The full text of the alphabetic mesostic piyyut, Hayom, according to the Italian nusaḥ. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Anonymous (translation)
“Aḥeinu” is the final prayer in a set of supplications recited on Mondays and Thursdays as the Torah scroll is being prepared to be returned to the Aron. The prayer is first found with variations in wording in the surviving manuscripts of the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.). . . .
Contributed by: Jacob Chatinover (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for unveiling a tombstone, according to the custom of the Jews of Pressburg. . . .
Contributed by: the Masorti Movement in Israel, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A pizmon in the nusaḥ hasepharadim recited at Seliḥot during the monh of Elul and Yom Kippur. . . .
Contributed by: David de Sola Pool, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
An alphabetic acrostic pizmon for seliḥot and Yom Kippur with an alphabetic acrostic English translation. . . .
Contributed by: David Asher (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A penitential piyyut for the fast of the 17th of Tammuz. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in many contemporary siddurim. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The origin story of Lilith as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira. . . .
Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut, El Adon, in Hebrew with an interpretive “praying translation” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom, z”l. . . .
Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation of “Adonai boker e’erokh lekha” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by an unknown paytan was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .
Contributed by: Simeon Singer (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
An alphabetical acrostic piyyut celebrating the victory of Esther and Mordekhai over the forces of Haman. . . .
Contributed by: Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
The piyyut, Dayenu, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel. . . .
Contributed by: Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
The alphabetic acrostic piyyut, Adir Hu, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel as found in his translation of the Pesaḥ seder haggadah, Liber Rituum Paschalium (1644). . . .
Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A work of Jewish astrology and magic containing recipes specific to the angelic rulers of each day of the week. . . .
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown
This is the Ribon ha-Olamim prayer contained within the concluding readings of the Qarbanot section as an introductory preface to the Morning prayers. In most siddurim in which the Karbanot are included, this prayer appears immediately after Ana b’Khoaḥ and before the rules of Midrash Halakhah taught by Rebbi Yishmael. . . .
Contributed by: Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Pablo A. Torijano (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A guide to the activities one might engage upon in every hour of the week corresponding with their ruling planet, numinous and cthonic power. . . .