
Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer translator for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his translations, 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 transcribes prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes for the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
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abbreviated alternative formulas | abduction | acrostic | Acrostic signature | affirmations | ageing | על הנסים al hanissim | alienation | Alphabetic Acrostic | עמידה amidah | Amoraic prayers | amulet bowls | קמעות qame'ot (amulets) | אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka | anamnesis | political and religious anarchism | Angelic Protection | Angels | Angels of Healing | אני מאמין Ani Maamin | anti-fascist | anti-predatory | anxiety | apotropaic prayers of protection | Arabic translation | Aramaic | Aramaic translation | ascent | ascetic practice | Aseret Yemei Tshuvah | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Suret) | authority vs. integrity | Avraham Avinu | אז ישיר Az Yashir | Azharot | Before Sleep | בהמות behemot | Beit Tefillah Yisraeli | Bendigamos | בענטשן bentshn | between life and death | Birkat haIlanot | ברכת המזון birkat hamazon | blessings | Bohemian Jewry | Btselem Elohim | burial service | Byzantium | Cairo Geniza | Calends | candle lighting | caring for the dying | cemetery prayers | childbirth | Children of Avraham | children's education | children's prayers | circumcision | Closing Prayers | community support | confession | cornucopia | cosmogony | cosmology | counting songs | creation | creator within creation | Crowning | danger | Decalogue | declarations | dedications and consecrations | democratic process | Distress | divine light | Divine name acrostic | domestic violence | domesticated animals | drought conditions | Dutch Jewry | dveykut | early first-millennium CE | Early Religious Zionist | eco-conscious | ecoḥasid | Egypt–Israel relations | אל ברוך El Barukh | אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim | elegies | English Translation | English vernacular prayer | entering | Epidemic | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | erev yom kippur | eros | esoteric Judaism | fasting | פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten | Fifth Day of Creation | First day of creation | flash floods | four worlds | Fourth Day of Creation | הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah | Freedom | French Jewry | French vernacular prayer | Friday | gender identity | Geonic prayers | German Jewry | German translation | German vernacular prayer | גשם geshem | גלגול נפשות gilgul nefashot | Gratitude | Haifa | hand laying | הקפות haḳafot | Har Sinai | חסידי אשכנז Ḥasidei Ashkenaz | חסידות Ḥasidut | הבדלות havdalot | הזכרת נשמות hazkarat neshamot | hazon et hakol | Hebrew translation | חסרונן ḥesronan | Hoshana Rabbah | הושענות hoshanot | hospice | Humanist | Humanist Judaism | humility | צה״ל IDF | immigration | immigration policy | in the merit of our ancestors | infants | internationalism | interpretive translation | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Italian Jewry | Italian vernacular prayer | Italian War of Independence | ירושלם Jerusalem | Jewish women | Jewish Women's Prayers | Judeo-Arabic | Kalendes | קלנדס Ḳalends | כבוד kavod | כוונות kavvanot | Kehilat Kol HaNeshama | kindling | דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand | Kohelet | Kurdish-Turkish conflict | Kurdistan | Labor Zionism | למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ | lamp lighting | Late Antiquity | leviathan | LGBTQIA+ | Light | Liturgical customs of Kabbalists | L'Olam Yehei Adam | loneliness | lonely man of faith | love | love-sickness | love your fellow as yourself | Lurianic | Lurianic Kabbalah | מה טבו mah tovu | marriage | masculinity | Mazal Taleh | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | Megilat Yonah | memento mori | מי שברך mi sheberakh | mid-first millennium CE | military | מזמור Mizmor | מודה אני Modeh Ani | מודים Modim | Monday | mourning | national anthems | Needing Translation (into Arabic) | Needing Decompilation | Needing Source Images | Needing Proofreading | Needing Transcription | Needing Vocalization | ne'ila | נעילה neilah | night | נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai | נודה לך Nodeh L'kha | non-dual theology | North American Jewry | Nusaḥ Anglia | Nusaḥ Ashkenaz | Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l | Nusaḥ Sefaradi | O Tag des Herrn | ocean | עולם הבא Olam Haba | Opening Prayers | Ottoman Jewry | Pandemic | panentheism | paraliturgical aleinu | paraliturgical birkat hamazon | paraliturgical brikh shmeih | paraliturgical hazkarat neshamot | paraliturgical kol nidrei | paraliturgical mah tovu | paraliturgical neïlah | paraliturgical ribon haOlamim | paraliturgical tefilat geshem | paraliturgical teḥinot | paraliturgical unetaneh toqef | Paraliturgical yizkor | paraliturgical zekhirot | parenting | parents | Parents blessing children | Paris Commune | Parliamentary Election | parnasah | peace | Pedagogical songs | פיוטים piyyuṭim | planting trees | post-Temple animal slaughter | Prayers as poems | תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying | Prayers before Torah Study | prayers concerning children | prayers for adolescents | Prayers on behalf of children | prayers for municipalities | prayers on behalf of parents | Prayers for Planting | Prayers for Precipitation | prayers for the ill | Prayers in Film | Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud | prayers of health care workers | Prayers of Jewish Educators | prayers of military chaplains | prayers of orphans | prayers of ḳabbalists | Prayers of redress | prayers on ships | Problematic prayers | professional intention | Progressive Zionism | prophylactic | protect the refugee | protection | Psalm of the Day | Psalmsploitation | קבלה ḳabbalah | ḳever mesten | קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf | Rain | rainfall | reciprocity | געולה ge'ulah (redemption) | refugees | reincarnation | Religious Zionism | religious Zionist | religious Zionist prayers | הוצאת ספר תורה Removal of the Torah from the Ark | Republic of Turkey | רשות reshut | resurrection | רבון העולמים Ribon haOlamim | Rojava | Roman minhag | Romanian translation | Romaniote | safe passage | school | school of the ARI z"l | Second day of creations | ספר הפליאה Sefer haPeliah | self-sacrifice | סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket | שבת shabbat | שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu | פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ | שבת שירה shabbat shirah | שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem | שבועות Shavuot | שכינה Shekhinah | shelo asani ishah | שמע shemaŋ | שבע ברכות sheva brakhot | שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom | שירת הים Shirat haYam | שופר shofar | shofar blowing | Shomrei Emunim | Sixth Day of Creation | slavery | sleep | Smyrna | socialism | solstice | Song of the Sea | South America | South Jerusalem | Spanish-Portuguese | Spring | Stoicism | storm | Suez Crisis | Sunday | Suriname | Synagogues | Syria | תחינות teḥinot | Teḥinot in German | תשובה teshuvah | thanatology | thankfulness | thanksgiving | the fifth day | the Holocaust | the invisible hand | the Rainbow | השואה the Shoah | the sixth day | התורה the Torah | theophany | Third Day of Creation | שלשה עשר עקרים shlolshah asar iqarim (13 principles) | Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire agreement | Thursday | תשרי זמן Tishrei Zman | תחינות tkhines | transgender prayer | transmigration of souls | travel by water | traveler | Trees | צדקה tsedaqah | צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof | Tuesday | Ukrainian translation | ונתנה תקף unetaneh toqef | Universal Peace | universalist | universalist prayers | vengeance | via negativa | וידוי vidui | Wakefulness | waking | water is life | wedding | wedding bentshers | wedding blessings | Wednesday | welcome the immigrant | Western Sepharadim | winter | יאָרצײַט yahrẓeit | ימים נוראים yamim noraim | Yerushalayim | Yiddish songs | Yiddish translation | יחוד yiḥud | ישראל Yisrael | יצחק Yitsḥaq | יזכור yizkor | Yom Kippur | זמירות zemirot | Zionist Prayers | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | Zoharic prayers | Even Boḥan | hakhnasat orḥim | Nusaḥ Italḳi | sheḥitah | אין אדיר Ayn Adir | זאת חנוכה Zot Ḥanukkah | Psalms 8 | COVID-19 coronavirus | Psalms 20 | Paraliturgical Psalms 24 | 42 letter divine name | Psalms 47 | Paraliturgical Psalms 48 | Psalms 51 | Paraliturgical Psalms 81 | Psalms 81 | Paraliturgical Psalms 82 | Psalms 82 | Paraliturgical Psalms 92 | Paraliturgical Psalms 94 | paraliturgical psalms 119 | Paraliturgical Psalms 121 | Psalms 121 | Psalms 139 | Siege of Paris (1870–1871) | 2013 Israeli legislative election | 2015 European Migrant Crisis | 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak | 2019 Tel Aviv rocket strike | 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Europe | 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel | 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Italy | 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war | 9th century C.E. | 11th century C.E. | 12th century C.E. | 13th century C.E. | 14th century C.E. | 16th century C.E. | 17th century C.E. | 18th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 47th century A.M. | 49th century A.M. | 50th century A.M. | 51st century A.M. | 52nd century A.M. | 54th century A.M. | 55th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
Noa Mazor | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Unknown Author(s) | the Masoretic Text | Masoretic layer 'J' | Masoretic kernel 'E' | Israel Brodie | Yaakov ben Yehudah Ḥazzan of London | Lior Bar-Ami | Abe Katz (translation) | Mosheh Halperin | Shlomo Goren | Moshe ben Maimon | Akiva Sanders (translation) | Unknown Translator(s) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Leo Baeck | David Hizkiahu Baruch Louzada | Moshe Tanenbaum | Meir ben Barukh of Rothenburg | Andreas Rusterholz (transcription) | Yehoshua Heshil Miro | Salomon Plessner | Miriam Klimova | Mendel Roth | Leopold Stein | Ron Kuzar (translation) | Avraham Shlonsky (translation) | Eugène Edine Pottier | Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi | Isaak Pleßner | Rabbi Lior Nevo (translation) | Bnei Qoraḥ | Chajm Guski (German translation) | Wolf Mayer | Daniel Bar Sadeh-Weise (transcription) | Emily Kesselman (art & transcription) | Meïr haLevi Letteris | Joshua de Sola Mendes (transcription) | David Lévi Alvarès | Harry Nilsson | Arnold E. Resnicoff | Yisrael Meir Lau | Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation) | Knesset haRabanim b'Yisrael | the Masorti Movement in Israel | Leslie Weatherhead | Yaacov Maoz | David Prato (translation) | Jonas Ennery | Arnaud Aron | Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda | Nina Davis Salaman (translation) | the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) | Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev | Moses Gaster | David ben Elazar ibn Paquda | Gabriel Kretzmer Seed (translation) | Jeffrey Saks (translation) | Amram ben Rav Sheshna | Dan Levene | Dalia Marx | Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry | Hillel Meitin (translation) | Naphtali Herz Imber | Assemblea Dei Rabbini D'Italia | David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) | Anonymous Author(s) | Honi Sanders (translation) | Aharon Berekhiah ben Mosheh of Modena | Nir Krakauer (translation) | Isaiah Horowitz | Steven Greenberg | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen | Eliyah ben Shlomo Avraham haKohen | Shaul Vardi (translation) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation) | Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Amos Ḥakham | Mona Lantz Levi (translation) | Lada Moskalets (translation) | Yehoyada Amir | Consistoire central israélite de France | Yitsḥak Luria | Ya'qub Ibn Yusuf | Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir | Esteban Gottfried | Josh Soref (translation) | Alex Sinclair (emendation) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | David Seidenberg | Shmueli Gonzales (transcription)
Arabic | Arabic (Judeo-Arabic) | Aramaic, Lishan Didan (Persian Azerbaijani Jewish Neo-Aramaic) | Aramaic, Official (700-300 BCE) | English | French | German | Hebrew | Italian | Romanian | Spanish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) | Ukrainian | Yiddish
Молитва про захист наших сердець від ненависті | תפילה לשמירה על ליבנו משנאה (בזמן המלחמה) | Prayer to Protect Our Hearts from Hatred in Wartime, by Miriam Klimova (2022)
Contributed by Miriam Klimova | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧
Miriam Klimova’s prayer “Молитва про захист наших сердець від ненависті” תפילה לשמירה על ליבנו משנאה (בזמן המלחמה) (Prayer to Protect Our Hearts from Hatred in Wartime), in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, was first shared in Hebrew and Ukrainian via her Facebook page. . . .
לזכרם של ההרוגים במלחמה באדמות אוקראינה | Молитва в пам’ять про загиблих у війні на землях України | Yizkor for those killed in the war in Ukraine, by Rabbi Miriam Klimova (2022)
Contributed by Miriam Klimova | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧
A prayer for a Yizkor service on Yom Kippur during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. . . .
תפילה לאוקראינה | Молитва за Україну | Prayer for Ukraine, by Rabbi Miriam Klimova (2022)
Contributed by Rabbi Lior Nevo (translation) | Miriam Klimova | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧
A prayer for Ukraine by Rabbi Miriam Klimova in Hebrew and Ukrainian first shared via her Facebook page on 24 February 2022. . . .
תפילה לשלום באירופה | Prayer for Peace in Europe during the Italian War of Independence (ca. 19th c.)
Contributed by Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧
This is a transcription, vocalization, and translation of a manuscript of a prayer for peace in Europe held in the collection of the Columbia University Library. The prayer is undated but the language of the prayer and the use of Italian indicate to me that this was a prayer made by an Italian Jewish community during either the first Italian War of Independence 1848-9, or one of the two succeeding wars in 1860 and 1870. . . .