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אֵל בָּרוּךְ | El Barukh :: A piyyut containing the 42 Letter Name, recorded by Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz

Contributed on: 15 Dec 2018 by Nir Krakauer (translation) | Isaiah Horowitz | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧

A piyyut providing the 42 letter divine name as an acrostic, recorded in the work of Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz. . . .

אֱלֹהִים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל | Elohim b’Yisrael :: A piyyut containing the 42 Letter Name, recorded in Sefer haPeliah

Contributed on: 16 Dec 2018 by Nir Krakauer (translation) | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | ❧

The earliest recorded prayer or piyyut providing an acrostic for the 42 letter divine name. . . .

תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem “Even Boḥan” by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322)

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author’s wish to have been born a Jewish woman. . . .

זמר לט״ו באב | Zemer for Tu b’Av, by Avraham ben Ḥalfon (ca. 12th c.)

Contributed on: 20 Aug 2016 by Abraham ben Ḥalfon | Nir Krakauer (translation) | ❧

This 12th century Yemenite liturgical poem for Tu b’Av is based on the Babylonian Talmud Taanit 30b-31a. . . .