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: Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation), Elazar ben Killir, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
The piyyut, Omets G’vurotekha by Elazar ha-Qalir, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel. . . .
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. . . .
Contributed by: David Fiensy, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This is a reconstruction of a sabbath liturgy for the Tefillah of the Amidah, at least in some variant of its public recitation, in Greek and preserved in an early Christian work, the Constitutiones Apostolorum (Apostolic Constitutions), a Christian work compiled around 380 CE in Syria. Several prayers derived from Jewish sources appear in the Apostolic Constitutions and they can be found grouped together and labeled “Greek” or “Hellenistic Syanagogal Works” in collections of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Because explicitly Christian references appeared to be added onto a pre-existing text with familiar Jewish or “Old Testament” themes and references, scholars in the late 19th century were already suggesting that as many as 16 of the prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions books 7 and 8 were derived from Jewish prayers. A more modern appraisal was made by Dr. Fiensy and published in Prayers Alleged to Be Jewish (Scholars Press 1985). Based on a careful analysis of the prayers, he concludes that the only prayers which can be identified as Jewish with certainty are those found in sections 33-38 of book 7. . . .
Contributed by: Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation), Yanai haPayetan, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
The piyyut, Omets G’vurotekha by Elazar ha-Qalir, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . .
Contributed by: Roy Kotansky (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë . . .
Contributed by: Richard Collis (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ for the “Qaddish Shalem,” the full-ḳaddish is found on page 27 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). . . .
Contributed by: Jakob Petuchowski (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Aramaic text of the Ḳaddish Shalem, with an English translation by Dr. Jakob Petuckowski. . . .
Contributed by: Richard Collis (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ for the “Ḥatsi Qaddish,” the half-ḳaddish is found on page 4 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). . . .
Contributed by: Ben-Zion Bokser, Yishmael ben Elisha, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The thirteen exegetical rules by which halakhot from the Torah may be derived, according to Rebbi Yishmael, included with the preliminary prayers before the Psukei d’Zimrah/Zemirot of Shaḥarit. . . .