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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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A blessing given by the parents of a Bar or Bat Mitsvah after they are confirmed in a public ceremony. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A prayer for travel. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A prayer for parnassah (livelihood) for someone impoverished or in danger of poverty. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A preliminary prayer offered by a Bar or Bat Mitsvah before they are confirmed in a public ceremony. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A child’s prayer for someone suffering from an illness. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A prayer in severe distress. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A prayer during an event of immanent communal danger and distress. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
This is a paraliturgical prayer for rain during the wet season, read during the festival of Sukkot, following in the tradition of Yiddish tkhines, albeit written in French. The prayer was included by Rabbi Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery in their opus, אמרי לב Prières d’un Coeur Israelite (first edition) published in 1848 by the Société Consistoriale de Bons Livres. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Consistoire central israélite de France, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A collection of paraliturgical prayers and teḥinot, edited by the chief rabbi of Strasbourg and translated into French by Jonas Ennery, as a supplement to the Jewish liturgy of the synagogue. . . .
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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A paraliturgical Mah Tovu, in French with English translation. . . .
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Joshua de Sola Mendes (transcription), David Lévi Alvarès, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Bénissons is the French version of the well-known Bendigamos, a prayer and melody of the Spanish & Portuguese Jewish communities, most probably originating in Bordeaux, France. . . .
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