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Founded in 1999, the Ben Yehuda Project digitally transcribes Hebrew works in the Public Domain.

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🆕 יְיָ מָה אָדָם | Hashem, mah adam (“Almighty! what is man”) — a piyyut for atonement by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (rhymed translation by Emma Lazarus)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Emma Lazarus, Shlomo ibn Gabirol

Emma Lazarus’s translation, simply referred to as “Hymn” — derived from the piyyut יְיָ מָה אָדָם by Shlomo ibn Gabirol — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 68-70. . . .