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Benyamim Tsedaka
Benyamim (Benny) Tsedaka is one of the elders of his people. As an historian, he has published over 100 books and over 2000 articles in Hebrew and English on Israelite Samaritan life, collated by the Internal University Computer in Israel under ‘Samaritans’. Benyamim Tsedaka is Head of the Israelite Samaritan Information Centre. Benny is the author of the ‘Samaritans’ entries in Encyclopedia Judaica; Encyclopedia of Zionism (in English); The Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem; and Encyclopedia Britannica for Youth (in Hebrew). Benny’s Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah was published in May 2013. For the first time ever, English translations of the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Masoretic (Jewish) text are laid out in parallel columns with important differences noted. http://israelite-samaritans.com📄 Israelite Samaritan Devotional Prayers for Weekdays and Shabbat, translated by Benyamim Sedaka
Contributed on: 25 Oct 2016 by ❧
Benyamim Sedaka’s English translations of devotional prayers for weekdays and Shabbat . . .
Israelite Samaritan Ḳiddush for the Shabbat Evening Meal, translated by Benyamim Sedaka
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Benyamim Sedaka’s English translations of the Israelite-Samaritan “Blessing on the Food” (Kiddush) and Abraham ben Marchiv Tsedaka Hassafari’s opening to the Friday night Shabbat meal . . .
📖 תפילות ימי החל | ࠕࠐࠉࠋࠅࠕ࠰ࠉࠌࠉ࠰ ࠄࠇࠋ | Israelite-Samaritan Prayerbook for Weekday Evenings & Mornings (2015)
Contributed on: 13 May 2015 by ❧
An Israelite-Samaritan prayerbook for evenings and mornings (not a complete Israelite-Samaritan prayerbook). . . .
Israelite Samaritan Prayers for the Shabbat Torah Reading, translated by Benyamim Sedaka
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Benyamim’s Sedaka’s English translations of the Israelite-Samaritan “Prayer to be Read by the Eldest Reader of the Sabbath Portion” and Abraham ben Marchiv Tsedaka Hassafari’s poem to be read after reading the last portion of the Torah reading . . .
📖 The Samaritan Liturgy in two volumes (transcribed by A.E. Cowley 1909)
Contributed on: 18 Jan 2017 by ❧
Arthur Earnest Cowley’s transcription of a 13th or 14th century manuscript of an Israelite-Samaritan defter held in the Vatican library (V 3. Ff. 193, vellum, sm. 4to.). Besides prayers, the second volume also contains an introduction, list of manuscripts used, and a glossary of terms in Samaritan Aramaic, among other materials. . . .
