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Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz

Shimon bar Yitsḥaq (also, Simeon bar Isac; ca. 950-ca. 1020), born in Mainz, Germany, was a scholar of his time. As a paytan he composed yotserot, qerovot, seliḥot, hymns, and rashuyyot le-ḥatanim. It is probable that he sang his piyutim himself. His piyutim bare traces of the language found in early piyutim, and they are marked by the pain of the persecutions of the Jews in bar Isaac's lifetime.

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אֶתֵּן לְפוֹעֲלִי צֶֽדֶק | Ètén l’Fōali Tsedeq (“My Maker’s Justice”), a piyyut by Rabbi Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz (rhyming English translation by Elsie Davis, 1907)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation), Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz

This is the alphabetic acrostic piyyut “Etén l’Foali Tsedeq” by Shimon bar Yitsḥaq (b. Abun of Mainz, identified via his acrostic signature), as translated into rhymed English verse by Elsie Davis, and published in Herbert Adler and Arthur Davis’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haZikaron (1907), p. 104 (also, p. 200).


אוֹתְךָ אֶדְרוֹשׁ | Otekha Edrosh, by Rabbi Shimon ben Yitsḥaq of Mainz (rhymed translation by Israel Zangwill, 1904)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation), Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz

Israel Zangwill’s rhyming translation of “Otekha Edrosh” by Rabbi Shimon ben Yitsḥaq ben Abun of Mainz, was first published in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim (Evening Service) (1904), pp. 41-43.


וְעַתָּה בָנִים שִֽׁירוּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ | v’Atah Vanim Shiru laMelekh (Come, children, chant the King), an ofan piyyuṭ for Shavuot by Rabbi Shimon ben Yitsḥaq Abun of Mainz (rhyming English translation by Israel Zangwill)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation), Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz

This is Israel’s Zangwill’s versified English translation of the ofan piyyut of Shimon ben Yitsḥaq Abun of Mainz as published in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Ḥag haShavuot (1909), p. 149.


אַתָּה הָאֵל עוֹשֵׂה פְלָאוֹת | Atah ha-El Oseh Fela’ot, a seliḥah for Taanit Esther by Shimon bar Isaac (ca. 10th c.)

Contributed by: Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

An alphabetic acrostic seliḥah piyyut for Taanit Esther in Hebrew with English translation


אָתִֽיתִי לְחַנְּנָךְ | Atiti l-Ḥan’nakh, the magen piyyuṭ for the second day of Rosh haShanah by Shimon bar Isaac (ca. 10th c.)

Contributed by: Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

A magen piyyut (recited as part of the first blessing of Shaḥarit) for the second day of Rosh haShanah by Rabbi Shimon bar Isaac “the Great” of Mainz. Here translated preserving the acrostic, slightly edited from its form as part of a day 2 service maḥzor designed by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer.


כׇּל־שִׁׄנְאַנֵּי שַֽׁחַק | Kol Shin’anei Shaḥaq — a rahit piyyuṭ for the second day of Rosh haShanah by Shimon bar Isaac (ca. 10th c.)

Contributed by: Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

A rahit (a chain piyyut before the silluq) for the second day of Rosh haShanah, by R’ Shimon bar Isaac “the Great” of Mainz. Here translated preserving the acrostic, slightly edited from its form as part of a day 2 service maḥzor designed by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer.



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