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

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מִי יִתְּנֵנִי עֶבֶד אֱלוֹהַּ עוֹשֵׂנִי | Mi Yitneni Eved Elo’ah Oseni (“Servant of God”), a piyyut by Yehudah ha-Levi (adapted rhyming English translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

“Servant of God” is an adapted English rhmying translation by Alice Montefiore Lucas of a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi, first published in the former’s first collection of translations Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894), pp. 9-12.


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.


יְיָ מָה אָדָם | Hashem, mah adam (“Almighty! what is man”) — a piyyuṭ 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.


שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ צוּרִי וּמִשְׂגַּבִּי | Shaḥar Avaqeshkha Tsuri u-Misgabi (Unto thy Rock, my soul, uplift thy gaze) — a piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (rhyming English adaptation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol

“Prayer” for Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅢ is Alice Lucas’s English verse adaptation of the piyyut “Shaḥar Avaqeshkha Tsuri u-Misgabi” by Shlomo ibn Gabirol, published in her The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year (1898), page 97.



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