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God Our Sustainer, an exhortation against the delusion of self-sufficiency (CCAR 1923)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown, Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

“God Our Sustainer” is the thirty-fourth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 115-117.

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם | Shalom Aleikhem, the piyyuṭ for Friday evenings in German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)

Contributed by: Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The popular adjuration of the angels of peace and ministering angels, Shalom Aleikhem, in Hebrew with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig.

He of Prayer, a poem concerning the angel Sandalphon by an Unknown Author (ca. 1870s)

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

The poem, “He of Prayer” as published in Henry Abarbanel’s English School and Family Reader (1883), p.14, where it is attributed to the newspaper The Jewish Times, a New York newspaper that circulated from 1869-1877.

תפלה נוראה מרבי ישׁמעאל כהן הגדול | The Awesome Prayer of Rebbi Yishmael, the Kohen Gadol (Sefer Shem Tov Qatan 1706)

Contributed by: Binyamin Benisch ben Yehudah Loeb ha-Kohen, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Anonymous (translation)

A prayer for protection and blessing offered in the name of of Rebbi Yishmael from the Sefer Shem Tov Qatan.

תְּחִנַּת שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם | Shalom Aleikhem teḥinah after lighting the Shabbat candles (1600)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morris M. Faierstein (translation), Unknown

This is the Hebrew text of a teḥinah for Shalom Aleikhem intended for women lighting candles on the commencement of Shabbat and festival days as found on the last page in the Basel edition of the [collection of prayers entitled] Birkhat ha-Mazon (Basel: Waldkirch, 1600). The English translation is by Rabbi Dr. Morris M. Faierstein as published in “An Early Modern Version of Shalom Aleichem for Women after Friday Candle Lighting” in Women in Judaism, 19(2), on page 4.

אַדִירְיַרוֹן בַהִירְיַרוֹן | Adiryaron Ḅahiryaron, a litany of angelic names associated with the 42 letter name, recorded in Sefer haQanah

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

A litany of angelic names recorded in Sefer HaQanah, whose initial letters spells out the 42 letter divine name as also found in Sefer haPeliah.

אַדִירְיַרוֹן בַהִירְיַרוֹן | Adiryaron Ḅahiryaron, a litany of angelic names associated with the 42 letter name, recorded in Sefer haPeliah

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

A litany of angelic names recorded in Sefer haPeliah whose initial letters spells out the 42 letter divine name as also found (in variation) in Sefer HaQanah.

מִימִינִי מִיכָאֵל | “Mikhael is on my right,” the angelic invocation for divine protection from the Ḳriyat Shema al haMitah

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

The “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in many contemporary siddurim.

מה אלו | “Who are these?” — the Origin of the Angels of Healing: Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Semanglof, as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira (ca. late first millennium)

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

The origin story of Lilith as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira.

הספר ששמשו בו הכשדים | Theurgy of the Kasdim, an astral-magic treatise on the seven angels of the week

Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A work of Jewish astrology and magic containing recipes specific to the angelic rulers of each day of the week.

ארכין ער נײגט גאט דען הימל אױף בּערג סיני | אַרְכִּין ה׳ שְׁמַיָּא — Arkin Hashem Shemaya, a piyyut narrating the ascent of Mosheh (Yiddish translation, 1694)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Rivkind (transcription), Unknown (translation), Unknown

The Yiddish translation of the Aramaic piyyut “Arkin” is appended to the first known printing of the Maaséh Aqdamut (Fürth 1694). The transcription is based on an earlier transcription of the Fürth 1694 printing published by Isaac Rivkind in “די היסטאָרישע אַלעגאָריע פון ר׳ מאיר שַ״ץ” (“The Historical Allegory of Rabbi Meir, shatz [Shaliaḥ Tsibur]”) the first chapter in Filologishe shriftn vol. 3 (1929), pp. 1-42. (This translation of the Aqdamut appears on pages/numbered columns 40-42.)

אַרְכִּין ה׳ שְׁמַיָּא | Arkin Hashem Shemaya, a piyyut narrating the ascent of Mosheh

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Laura Lieber (translation), Unknown

“Arkin” is one of two Aramaic piyyutim read by some Ashkenazi communities at the beginning of the Torah reading on the first day of Shavuot (the other being the Aqdamut). The piyyut makes reference to an important legend featuring Mosheh experiencing an ascent in which he must wrest the Torah from angelic entities that are averse to parting with it, or loathe to giving it up, to humanity. Introducing the piyyut she translated in Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity (Brill: 2018), Dr. Laura Lieber writes, “This [Shavuot] poem dramatizes neither the content of revelation, as other poems here do, nor the season of its giving, as the story of Ruth does. Instead, our poet imagines God’s summoning of Moses to the heavens to receive the Torah atop Mount Sinai. God’s voice is most prominent here, although the angels also speak; Moses, however, keeps silent, and the poet depicts him with anything but aggression and bravado. The poet crafts a scene that recreates the tension of the imagined encounter: God repeatedly reassures Moses, who fears angelic aggression, but the angels also express fear of Moses, who is here depicted as having horns, which God encourages Moses to use in self-defense.”

היסטוריולה של סממית וסידרוס | Historiola of Smamit and Sideros, a reconstruction based on Amulet 15 & Amulet Bowl 12a

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

A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity.

אסו ית ארסינואי | Two healing prayers for Arsinoë’s recovery (Amulets 80.AM.55.1 & 80.AM.55.2, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Contributed by: Roy Kotansky (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë

💬 מדרש לחנוכה | Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, an interwoven miscellany of Ḥanukkah stories

Contributed by: Aliza Arzt, Isabel Bard (translation), Unknown

The following is the Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, one of a collection of three midrashim and two megillot containing the details of the story of Ḥanukkah in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Those already familiar with these other works will quickly recognize portions or summaries of them here albeit with precious additional information added not found anywhere else.

Selections from 1 & 2 Maccabees and Pesiqta Rabbati on the Desecration and Rededication of the Temple and the Rekindling of the Sacred Fire

Contributed by: Jason of Cyrene, Septuagint/ⅬⅩⅩ (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Selections from 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, and Pesiqta Rabbati which inform the story of Ḥanukkah: the desecration and re-dedication of the Temple (especially as it relates to Sukkot and the Brumalia), divine intervention in the Maccabean battles, and the Rekindling of the Sacred Fire.

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (שְׁלָמָא אֵילוֹכוּן)‏ | Shalom Aleikhem (Shlama Elokhun), Aramaic translation by Yaacov Maoz

Contributed by: Yaacov Maoz, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (translation)

The popular piyyut for welcoming the Shabbat, in Hebrew with translations in Assyrian-Aramaic and English.

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