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Isaac Pinto (translation)  Isaac Pinto (translation)Isaac Pinto (1720–1791) was an American Jew in Colonial America who, near the end of his life, served the nascent government of the United States. Pinto prepared the first Jewish prayer-book published in America, which was also the first English translation of the Siddur (1766). A member of Congregation Shearith Israel, he served as one of the first official translators hired by the United States government in 1781 under authorization of the Continental Congress working in the Department of Foreign Affairs, the predecessor to the modern Department of State. Filter resources by Category Arvit l'Shabbat | Morning Baqashot | Bedtime Shema | Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah | Musaf l'Shabbat | Shabbat Siddurim | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim | Yom Kippur Filter resources by Tag אדון עולם Adon Olam | American Jewry of the United States | British Empire | British Monarchy | cosmological | exhortation | הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah | Ḳ.Ḳ. Shearith Israel | Nusaḥ Sefaradi | Openers | פיוטים piyyutim | reconstructed text | סליחות səliḥot | Spanish-Portuguese | תשובה teshuvah | תוכחות tokheḥot | Western Sepharadim | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 11th century C.E. | 18th century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 55th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. Filter resources by Name Filtered by tag: “cosmological” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים) | Adōn Olam, translation by Isaac Pinto (1766)Contributed on: 01 Aug 2023 by Isaac Pinto (translation) | Shlomo ibn Gabirol | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧ This is Isaac Pinto’s English translation of Adon Olam from Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-Hashanah, and [Yom] Kippur (1766), p. 29. The translation there appears without the Hebrew. The Hebrew text of the piyyut set side-by-side with the translation was transcribed from Rabbi David de Sola Pool’s Tefilot l’Rosh haShanah (1937). . . . | ||
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