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בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר | Barukh shèAmar, alphabetic acrostic piyyut from the Old Persian rite attested in JTS MS 4522

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

Barukh shèAmar for Shabbat and festivals, in the Old Persian rite, as recorded in MS Adler 23 ENA in the JTS Library. The Old Persian rite shows some fascinating unique linguistic features. The first thing that immediately strikes one is its tendency towards poetic extensions and doublings, even in texts (such as the Avot blessing) where most other rites are almost completely uniform. It also shows some nonstandard vocalizations that appear to be influenced by the Babylonian system of vocalization. In modern Persian communities the standard rite is a variation of the Sephardic rite used throught the Mizraḥi world, but this older rite with its unique facets deserves to be preserved as well. This Barukh shèAmar is an intricate rhyming acrostic chock full of Biblical references.

אַחֵֽינוּ | Aḥeinu (Our siblings)

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

“Aḥeinu” is the final prayer in a set of supplications recited on Mondays and Thursdays as the Torah scroll is being prepared to be returned to the Aron. The prayer is first found with variations in wording in the surviving manuscripts of the Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ca. 9th c.).

אֲשֶׁר בָּרָא יֵין עָסִיס | Asher Bara Yayin ‘Asis — a Poetic Extension of the Blessing over Wine for the Passover Seder (ca. 9th c.)

Contributed by: Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

The following piyyut seems to have been customarily used in some Babylonian communities as an extensive replacement for the “creator of the vine-fruit” opening of the kiddush. Rav Saadia Gaon forbade it for being an alteration of the talmudic formula, but his successor Rav Hai Gaon permitted it for its cherished status. No communities today have preserved a custom of reciting it, but in 1947 Naphtali Wieder (zçl) published a text he found in the Cairo Geniza, which is replicated and translated below. Daniel Goldschmidt (zçl) suggests that it may be in it of itself a compilation of two different rites. The conjunction point is marked below with a black line.

קידוש לראש חודש, לפי מסכת סופרים | A Sanctification of the New Month, reconstructed from Masekhet Soferim by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer, Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

This is a litanic Ḳiddush for a Rosh Ḥodesh meal, constructed based on the Ḳiddush for Rosh Ḥodesh in Jerusalem as described in Masekhet Soferim chapter 19:9, mostly following the GRA’s edition. Traditionally it would be done in the presence of twelve town elders and twelve scholars of ritual purity, but today we could adapt it to be recited at a festive meal for Rosh Ḥodesh in the presence of seven — the minyan count according to the traditional Western practice recorded elsewhere in Masekhet Soferim 10:7.

אֵל אָדוֹן (אשכנז) | El Adōn, a piyyuṭ attributed to the Yordei Merkavah (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The piyyut, El Adon, in Hebrew with an interpretive “praying translation” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom, z”l.

אֵל אָדוֹן (מנהג הספרדים) | El Adōn, a piyyuṭ attributed to the Yordei Merkavah (translation by Sara-Kinneret Lapidot)

Contributed by: Sara Lapidot (translation), Unknown

The piyyut, El Adon, in Hebrew with an English translation.

חֲצִי קַדִּישׁ | Ḥatsi Qaddish, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in Bodleian Library Ms. Opp. Add. Qu. 28

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

An early variation of the Ḥatsi Qaddish as found in Seder Rav Amram as attested in Bodleian Library Ms. Opp. Add. Qu. 28.

חֲצִי קַדִּישׁ | Ḥatsi Qaddish, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in British Library Or. 1067

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

An early variation of the Ḥatsi Qaddish as found in Seder Rav Amram as attested in British Library Or. 1067, fol. 12v.

חֲצִי קַדִּישׁ | Ḥatsi Qaddish, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in JTS MS 4074

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

An early variation of the Ḥatsi Qaddish as found in Seder Rav Amram as attested on fol. r of JTS MS 4074.

על הכל יתגדל ויתקדש | An Alternative Mourner’s Ḳaddish, from a prayer offered during the removal of the Torah from the Arōn (Seder Rav Amram Gaon)

Contributed by: Oren Steinitz (translation), Unknown

This Kaddish was first published online at Jewish Renewal Chassidus by Gabbai Seth Fishman. Rabbi Oren Steinitz translated the kaddish on the 3rd yahrzeit after Reb Zalman’s passing.

This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ of the prayer “ha-Kol Yodukha,” is found on pages 7-11 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo).

אֵל אָדוֹן | 上帝，主 | El Adon (Shàngdì, zhǔ) — Chinese translation by Richard Collis (2022)

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

This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ for the alphabetic acrostic piyyut “El Adon,” is found on page 8 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo).

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בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר | Barukh shèAmar, alphabetic acrostic piyyut from the Old Persian rite attested in JTS MS 4522

אַחֵֽינוּ | Aḥeinu (Our siblings)

אֲשֶׁר בָּרָא יֵין עָסִיס | Asher Bara Yayin ‘Asis — a Poetic Extension of the Blessing over Wine for the Passover Seder (ca. 9th c.)

קידוש לראש חודש, לפי מסכת סופרים | A Sanctification of the New Month, reconstructed from Masekhet Soferim by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

אֵל אָדוֹן (אשכנז) | El Adōn, a piyyuṭ attributed to the Yordei Merkavah (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

אֵל אָדוֹן (מנהג הספרדים) | El Adōn, a piyyuṭ attributed to the Yordei Merkavah (translation by Sara-Kinneret Lapidot)

חֲצִי קַדִּישׁ | Ḥatsi Qaddish, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in Bodleian Library Ms. Opp. Add. Qu. 28

חֲצִי קַדִּישׁ | Ḥatsi Qaddish, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in British Library Or. 1067

חֲצִי קַדִּישׁ | Ḥatsi Qaddish, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in JTS MS 4074

על הכל יתגדל ויתקדש | An Alternative Mourner’s Ḳaddish, from a prayer offered during the removal of the Torah from the Arōn (Seder Rav Amram Gaon)

בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר | Barukh shèAmar, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in JTS MS 4074

בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר | Barukh shèAmar, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in British Library Or. 1067

בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר | Barukh shèAmar, from the Seder Rav Amram attested in Bodleian Library Ms. Opp. Add. Qu. 28

הַכֹּל יוֹדוּךָ | 众人感谢 | Ha-Kol Yodukha (Zhòngrén gǎnxiè) — Chinese translation by Richard Collis (2022)

אֵל אָדוֹן | 上帝，主 | El Adon (Shàngdì, zhǔ) — Chinese translation by Richard Collis (2022)