Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
From a family of musicians, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer believes that creative art is one of the most powerful ways to get in touch with the divine. He composes music and poetry in Hebrew and English. (He also authors his own original works and transcribes Hebrew and Aramaic text, adding niqqud and t'amim as needed.) Isaac runs a Jewish music transcription service, which will transcribe and set any Jewish music in any language, recorded or written. Contact his service on Facebook or via his music blog.
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אין אדיר Ayn Adir | טל tal | יום זה מכובד yom zeh mekhubad | יום שבתון yom shabbaton | כל מקדש שביעי kol meqadesh shevi'i | נרצה Nirtsah | סעודת פורים seudat purim | שוכן עד shokhen ad | 100 blessings a day | 16th President of the United States | 17 Shəvat | 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war | 2024 Iran–Israel conflict | 28 Adar | 29 Tevet | 5th century B.C.E. | Abraham Lincoln | acrostic | Acrostic signature | Acrostic translation | addenda | אדיר במלוכה Adir Bimlukhah | אדיר הוא Adir Hu | אדון עולם Adon Olam | Aharon | Akkadian | על הגתית Al HaGitit | על נהרות בבל Al naharot Bavel | Alef b'Elul | Aleph-Bet | Algiers | Alphabetic Acrostic | alphabetic mesostic | alternate timeline | Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865) | American Jewry of the United States | עמידה amidah | Amoraic prayers | קמעות qame'ot (amulets) | political and religious anarchism | Angels | animals | anti-karaite | anti-predatory | Antiquity | apocryphal psalms | apotropaic rituals of protection | אקדמות Aqdamut | Arabic 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merit of Aharon haKohen | in the merit of Yitsḥaq | interfaith prayer | interfaith tolerance | interpretive translation | interspecies relationships | Iranian support for Hamas | Irish vernacular | Irish War of Independence | Israelite-Samaritan | Italian Jewry | Italian vernacular prayer | ירושלם Jerusalem | Jewish Antiquities | Jewish-Christian relations | Jews of Alexandria | Jews of India | Judaean Desert Scrolls | Judeo-Arabic | Judeo-Greek | Judeo-Spanish | Judith | קדיש דרבנן Ḳaddish D'Rabanan | קדיש שלם Ḳaddish shalem | Kaifeng | קלנדס Ḳalends | קרובות ḳerovot | כתובה ketubbah | קידוש ḳiddush | kindling | King Richard I | kol nidrei | Ladino Translation | Ladino vernacular prayer | lamentation | למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ | lamp lighting | Late Antiquity | Late Bronze Age | Latin translation | Latin vernacular | לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi | LGBTQ | liberation | liberty | Libyan Jewry | livnei Qoraḥ | Livorno | local communal deliverance commemorations | love | love your fellow as yourself | 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Yaaqov Mosheh Ḥai Altarats (translation) | Anonymous Author(s) | David Asher (translation) | Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir | Shimon bar Isaac | Menaḥem ben Aharon | Marqeh ben Amram | Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Yosef ben Asher (of Chartres) | Asaph ben Berechiah | Yeḥezqel ben Būzi haKohen | Yehudah ben Hillel haLevi | Elazar ben Killir | Menaḥem ben Makhir | Yaaqov ben Meir | Yeruḥam ben Meshullam | Shmuel haDayan | Barukh ben Neriyah | Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils | Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo | Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi | Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira | Yonatan ben Uziel | Hillel ben Yaaqov of Bonn | Eleazar ben Yehudah ben Ḳalonymus of Worms | Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach | David ben Yishai (traditional attribution) | Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi | Yequtiel ben Yosef | Saadiah ben Yosef Gaon | Yirmiyah ben Ḥilkiyah haKohen | Meshullam ben Ḳalonymus | Leonard Bernstein | Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) | Bnei Qoraḥ | Robert Henry Charles (translation) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Moshe Shmi'el Dascola | Uri DeYoung | Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality | Jacques Faïtlovitch (translation) | Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation) | Benjamin Franklin | Samuel Freund | Moses Gaster | Isaac Goldstein | Steven Greenberg | Woody Guthrie | Ḥaggai haNavi | Ḥabaquq haNavi | Yanai haPayetan | Shmuel haPaytan | Anat Hochberg (translation) | Yosef ibn Abitur | Shlomo ibn Gabirol | Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir | Avraham Kahana (Hebrew translation) | Mordecai Kaplan | Abe Katz (translation) | Jack Kessler (trōpification) | Avraham Khalfon | Nir Krakauer (translation) | Wolf Leslau (translation: English) | Abraham Lincoln | Masorti Movement in Israel | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer | Avraham Menaḥem Mendel Mohr | Sabato Morais | Christopher S. Morrissey (translation) | Yisrael Najara | Meir ben Isaac Nehorai of Orléans | Pádraig Pearse | Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (translation) | Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) | Akiva Sanders (translation) | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | Stephen Schwartz | David Seidenberg | Septuagint (translation/Greek) | the Shalom Center | Avi Shmidman | Ẓvi Hirsch Sommerhausen | Moshe Tanenbaum | the Masoretic Text | Theodotion (translation/Greek) | Emmanuel Tov (Hebrew reconstruction) | Abba Tsabrah (traditional attribution) | Yiḥya Tsalaḥ | Benyamim Tsedaka | Unknown Author(s) | Unknown Translator(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Arthur Waskow | Susan Weingarten (translation) | Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman | Jospeh Ziegler (translation)
בִּרְכַּת הָאִילָנוֹת | The Blessing of Flowering Fruit Trees in the Spring Season in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Contributed on: 05 Apr 2011 by Jacob Chatinover (translation) | David Seidenberg | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | ❧
When the spring (Aviv) season arrives, a blessing is traditionally said when one is in view of at least two flowering fruit trees. In the northern hemisphere, it can be said anytime through the end of the month of Nissan (though it can still be said in Iyar). For those who live in the southern hemisphere, the blessing can be said during the month of Tishrei. . . .