//  Main  //  Menu


Category Index

   
⤷ You are here:   Contributors (A→Z)  🪜   Avi Shmidman
Avatar photo

Avi Shmidman

Dr. Avi Shmidman is a Senior Lecturer in the Hebrew Literature department at Bar-Ilan University, and the head of research and development at DICTA: The Israel Center for Text Analysis. His publications focus upon: liturgical piyyutim from the Cairo Genizah; the textual development of birkat ha-mazon; the writings of S. Y. Agnon; and algorithms for computational processing of Hebrew texts.

http://alhanisim.blogspot.com/
Resources filtered by TAG: “acrostic” (clear filter)

Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first?

צָמְאָה נַפְשִׁי | Tsam’ah Nafshi, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (trans. Avi Shmidman & Tzvi Novick)

Contributed by: Tzvi Novick (translation), Avi Shmidman, Avraham ibn Ezra

This translation of Tsam’ah Nafshi was made by Avi Shmidman and Tzvi Novick, and first published by the Az Yashir Moshe Project birkon (2009), p. 56-57. . . .


ברכת המזון ליום הכפורים | Poetic Birkat haMazon for the break-fast meal after Yom Kippur, as found in British Library MS Or. 9772 D

Contributed by: Avi Shmidman, Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

A poetic Birkat haMazon text for the breakfast after Yom Kippur found in British Library MS Or. 9772 D. All the opening words of the alphabetical acrostic are from Psalms 111. . . .