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🆕 📃 Rabbi Yosef vs. the Sorceror, a tale of a miraculous rescue on erev Yom Kippur retold by Rabbi Yehudah heḤasid in RSL Ms. Guenzburg 82 (ca. 12th c.)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joseph Dan (translation), Yehudah ben Shmuel of Regensburg, Unknown

This is an early wizard battle tale found in RSL Ms. Guenzburg 82, fol. 78b-79a, first transcribed by Joseph Dan in his article סיפורים דימונולוגיים מכתבי יהודה החסיד (“Demonological stories from the writings of Yehudah he-Ḥasid”) and published in Tarbits (vol. 30, 1961), as story #29 on pp. 288-289. The English translation by Dan, was re-printed in chapter 15 of Jewish Mysticism vol. 2: The Middle Ages, pp. 359-360, and first published in “An Early Source of the Yiddish Akdamot Story,” in Hebrew University Studies in Literature, vol. 1 (1993), pp. 39-46.

דִּבְרֵי נְבִיאִים הָעֲתִידוֹת יָדְעוּ | Divrei Neviïm ha-‘Atidot Yad’u — reshut №1 from the Old Sefaradi Tiqun for Shabbat Divrei

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown

This is the first of six reshuyot for the first sabbath of rebuke, Shabbat Divrei, the first Sabbath of Rebuke after 17 Tammuz. It is the first reshut recited before Nishmat at the outset of the Shaḥarit service.

נִשְׁמַת שְׁדוּדִים | Nishmat Shedudim — reshut №3 from the Old Sefaradi Tiqun for Shabbat Divrei

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown

This reshut by Shmuel (possibly Shmuel haNagid, although it is not found in his diwan) is the third of six reshuyot for the first sabbath of rebuke, Shabbat Divrei, the first Sabbath of Rebuke after 17 Tammuz. It is the third and final reshut recited before Nishmat at the outset of the Shaḥarit service.

לִפְדּוֹת עַם דַּל בַּגָּלוּת מוֹנַי | Lifdōt ‘Am Dal ba-Galut Monai — reshut №4 from the Old Sefaradi Tiqun for Shabbat Divrei

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown

This reshut is the fourth of six reshuyot for the first sabbath of rebuke, Shabbat Divrei, the first Sabbath of Rebuke after 17 Tammuz. It is recited before the Ḳaddish prior to Barkhu and the blessings before the Shema of the Shaḥarit service.

שָׁנָה בְּשָׁנָה | Shanah b-Shanah — reshut №5 from the Old Sefaradi Tiqun for Shabbat Divrei

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown

This reshut is the fifth of six reshuyot for the first sabbath of rebuke, Shabbat Divrei, the first Sabbath of Rebuke after 17 Tammuz. It is recited before Barkhu and the blessings before the Shema of the Shaḥarit service.

אָתָֽאנוּ לְךָ יוֹצֵר | Atanu l’Kha Yotsér (Am siebzehnten Tag des Tamuz) — a seliḥah of unknown authorship (German translation by Isaac Seligman Baer)

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Seligman Baer, Unknown

This is a transcription of “Atanu l’Kha Yotsér,” a seliḥah for the 17th of Tammuz of unknown authorship found in 13th century Ashkenazi manuscripts and translated by Isaac Seligman Baer in הסליחות לכל השנה: לפי מנהג האשכנזים Ha-Seliḥot le-khol ha-shanah: le-fi minhag ha-Ashkenazim (1865), pp. 558-561..

אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים במזרח)‏ | Adōn Olam, translation by Annie Kantar

Contributed by: Annie Kantar (translation), Unknown

The piyyut, Adon Olam, in its expanded fifteen line variation, in Hebrew with English translation.

אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Adōn Olam, rhyming translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool (1937)

Contributed by: David de Sola Pool, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A rhyming translation in English to the popular piyyut, Adon Olam.

אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז)‏ | Adōn Olam (rhyming translation by Israel Zangwill, 1901)

Contributed by: Israel Zangwill (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Adon Olam is a piyyut that became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038). The variation of the piyyut appearing here is the 10 line version familiar to Ashkenazi congregations. (There are also twelve, fifteen, and sixteen line variants found in Sepharadi siddurim.) The rhyming translation here by Israel Zangwill was transcribed from the Jewish Quarterly Review vol. 13 (January 1901), p. 321.

אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז)‏ | Adōn Olam, translated by Alice Lucas (1894)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown

The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation.

אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (מנהג הספרדים במזרח)‏ | जो जगताचा स्वामि | Adōn Olam in Marathi translation by Jospeh Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1889)

Contributed by: Aniruddha Walke (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (translation), Unknown

The piyyut, “Adon Olam” became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038). The variation of the piyyut appearing here is the fifteen line version familiar to some Mizraḥi and eastern Sefaradi congregations. (A twelve line variant is common among the Western Sefaradim. The Ashkenazi version has ten lines.) The Marathi translation was made by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar as published in סדר תפלת החדש The Daily Prayers translated from Hebrew in Marathi (1889), pp. 7-8.

לְמַעַנְךָ וְלֹא לָנוּ | l’Maankha v’lo lanu (For your sake, not for ours), a piyyuṭ by an unknown paytan (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

This translation by Rabbi David de Aaron de Sola of “Lema’ankha v’lo lanu” by an unknown paytan was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857).

אִזֵל מֹשֶׁה | Izel Mosheh (Arise, Moses) — a piyyuṭ for the Seder Meturgeman of the 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Contributed by: Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

This piyyut, Izel Moshe (Arise, Moses), the fifth in a series of Aramaic piyyutim from the seventh day of Pesaḥ, is meant to be recited after the second verse of the song proper, as an elaboration on God’s strength. The English translation preserves the Hebrew acrostic of the original.

אָב הָרַחֲמִים שׁוֹכֵן מְרוֹמִים | Av haRaḥamim Shokhein Meromim, a prayer for the martyred during the First Crusade & Rhineland massacres

Contributed by: Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

A prayer for those martyred in the First Crusade and Rhineland Massacres, and by extension, all subsequent pogroms up until and including the Holocaust.

קרובות למוסף שבת שקלים | Ḳerovot for Musaf Shabbat Sheqalim

Contributed by: Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

The traditional Ashkenazi qerovot added to the Musaf repetition for Shabbat Sheqalim, alongside a new gender-neutral translation

אֲזַי בְּבׇגְדִי | Azai b-Vagdi — a seliḥah for 17 Tammuz (translation by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer)

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown

Recited in many Sefaradi and other non-Ashkenazi rites for the seventeenth of Tammuz, this piyyuṭ, like many 17 Tammuz seliḥot, has a stanza for each of the five tragedies discussed in the mishnah. It is here included alongside an acrostic translation.

אוֹפָן לשבת לפני שבעות | Ofan piyyuṭ for the Shabbat before Shavuot (and the second day of Shavuot in some communities)

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Unknown

This anonymous ofan, also recited on the second day of Shavuot in some communities, uses alliteration to describe the many hosts of angels descending upon Sinai in awe and reverence as the Torah was given. The translation preserves the alliteration over the alphabet, seeing as the ofan in this form doesn’t include the entire alphabet either. As an ofan, it is recited within the Ḳedusha d-Yotser, between the verses of Isaiah and Ezekiel (included here). The ofan is recited on the second day of Shavuot in some communities.

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