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Jacob Chatinover (translation)Jacob Chatinover is a Jewish environmental educator. He studied Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, where he focused on translation, especially poetic and liturgical translation. He is pursuing rabbinic ordination at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. If you know of a work that is beautiful but inaccessible to English-speakers, let him know! |
Contributed on: 05 Apr 2011 by Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | David Seidenberg | Unknown Author(s) | ❧
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. . . .
Contributed on: 28 Feb 2019 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Yaaqov Ḳoppel ben Tsvi Margoliyot | ❧
A kinah/elegy for those massacred in the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648–1649 composed by a possible eyewitness to the tragedy. . . .
Contributed on: 17 Aug 2018 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Unknown Author(s) | ❧
A prayer for unveiling a tombstone, according to the custom of the Jews of Pressburg. . . .
Contributed on: 05 Jul 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Unknown Author(s) | ❧
This is a 17th century prayer for the Holy Roman Emperor found in Ms. 110 (Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic). . . .
Contributed on: 21 Apr 2020 by Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Jacob Chatinover (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Unknown Author(s) | ❧
A prayer in the event of excessive raining causing economic hardship, from Mantua in 1729. . . .