Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating her childbirth. . . .
Contributed by: Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A popular piyyut for Simḥat Torah (4th hakkafah) originally composed as a piyyut for Shavuot and often referred to by its incipit, “Mipi El.” . . .
Contributed by: Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
This is a variation of Mipi El in Hebrew with a Judeo-Arabic translation found in the Seder al-Tawḥid for Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, compiled by Mosheh Asher ibn Shmuel in 1887 in Alexandria. . . .
Contributed by: Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A crucial intention to align one’s davvenen practice with the command to love one’s fellow as oneself per Leviticus 19:18, as recorded in Minhagei ha-Arizal–Petura d’Abba, p.3b by Ḥayyim Vital. . . .
Contributed by: Rabbi Sam Seicol, Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A variation of the piyyut “Yedid Nefesh” in Hebrew with English translation. . . .
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut, Yedid Nefesh, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
An interpretive translation in English of the shabbes hymn Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .
Contributed by: Alice Lucas (translation), Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
An abridged rhymed translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .
Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation of “Yom Zeh l’Yisrael” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .
Contributed by: Paltiel Birnbaum (translation), Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Ribon Kol Ha-Olamim is a teḥinah (supplication) for entering the Shabbat that can be found in many siddurim following after the custom of the school of Rabbi Yitsḥak Luria. In his Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem, Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum includes it, commenting as follows: “Ribon kol Ha’Olamim is attributed to Rabbi Joseph of Rashkow, Posen, who lived towards the end of the eighteenth century. The adjectives in the first paragraph are in alphabetic order.” This can’t be correct however as a copy of Ribon Kol Ha-Olamim can be seen in the siddur Tikunei Shabbat from 1614 (see below for source images). Google Books attributes Tikunei Shabbat to Rabbi Yitsḥak Luria (1534-1572), which is the attribution we have followed, although as a posthumously published work we wonder whether it might be more properly attributed to “the School of Rabbi Isaac Luria.” Please comment below if you know of another attribution. The English translation is that of Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum, with some minor changes that I have made to divine names and appelations.– Aharon Varady . . .
Contributed by: Paltiel Birnbaum (translation), Yisrael Najara, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .
Contributed by: Israel Brodie, Yisrael Najara, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .
Contributed by: Israel Abrahams (translation), Yisrael Najara, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with a rhyming English translation. . . .
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Yisrael Najara
This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Yah Ribon” by Rabbi Yisrael Najara was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .
Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Modeh Ani, in Hebrew with English translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . .
Contributed by: Mosheh ben Yaaqov Cordovero, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Chapter three of Rabbi Mosheh Cordovero’s Tomer Devorah, concerning the relationship between Wisdom and Empathy and its expression in the humane treatment of all living creatures. . . .
Contributed by: Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
The text of the popular counting song “Who Knows One?” in its original Hebrew, with a translation in Latin. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The text of the popular Passover song “Who Knows One?” in its original Hebrew and Yiddish, with a translation in English. . . .
Contributed by: Dom Pedro Ⅱ, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This is “Had Gadiâ | Un Cabri: La Légende de l’Agneau (Poésie chaldaico-provençale, chantée a la table de famille les soirs de Paques),” a translation of Ḥad Gadya into French by Dom Pedro Ⅱ (1825-1891), emperor of Brazil, as published in Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin traduites et transcriptes par S. M. D. Pedro Ⅱ, de Alcântara, empereur du Brésil (1891), pp. 45-59. A note on the last page indicates the translation was made in Vichy, France on 30 July 1891. . . .