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יָהּ, אָנָה אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Yah, Where shall I find you?, a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)

Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi, Aharon N. Varady (translation)

A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . .

אֱלִי, רְפָאֵנִי וְאֵרָפֵא | Eli Refa’eni v’Erafé, the personal physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)

Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi, Aharon N. Varady (translation)

The physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi in the 12th century CE. . . .

נַפְשִׁי אִוִּיתִיךָ בַּלַּיְלָה | Nafshi Ivitikha Balailah (I yearn for you with all my being in the night) — a piyut by Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra (rhymed translation by Emma Lazarus)

Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Emma Lazarus, Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra

Emma Lazarus’s translation, “In the Night” — derived from the piyyut נַפְשִׁי אִוִּיתִיךָ בַּלַּיְלָה by Moses ibn Ezra — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 78-80. . . .

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