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איל דייו דישﬞו קי בואינו אירה | El Disho Ke Bueno Era — a Ladino pizmon for Erev Shabbat (transcribed and translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer)

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

A Ladino pizmon recited on Shabbat evenings, “El Disho Ke Bueno Era” retells the events of the seven days of creation. . . .

🆕 שִׁיר הַיִּחוּד לְיוֹם שִׁישִׁי | Hymn of Divine Unity for the Sixth Day, by an unknown paytan (ca. 12th c.)

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

This is the shir ha-yiḥud l’yom shishi (hymn of unity for the sixth day), as translated by Herbert Adler and published in the maḥzor for Rosh ha-Shanah by Arthur Davis & Herbert Adler (1907). . . .

פֶּרֶק שִׁירָה | Pereq Shirah, a litany of verses spoken by the creatures & works of Creation (after the arrangement of Natan Slifkin)

Contributed by: Unknown, Rabbi Natan Slifkin, Aharon N. Varady

Talmudic and midrashic sources contain hymns of the creation usually based on homiletic expansions of metaphorical descriptions and personifications of the created world in the Bible. The explicitly homiletic background of some of the hymns in Perek Shira indicates a possible connection between the other hymns and Tannaitic and Amoraic homiletics, and suggests a hymnal index to well-known, but mostly unpreserved, homiletics. The origin of this work, the period of its composition and its significance may be deduced from literary parallels. A Tannaitic source in the tractate Hagiga of the Jerusalem (Hag. 2:1,77a—b) and Babylonian Talmud (Hag. 14b), in hymns of nature associated with apocalyptic visions and with the teaching of ma’aseh merkaba serves as a key to Perek Shira’s close spiritual relationship with this literature. Parallels to it can be found in apocalyptic literature, in mystic layers in Talmudic literature, in Jewish mystical prayers surviving in fourth-century Greek Christian composition, in Heikhalot literature, and in Merkaba mysticism. The affinity of Perek Shira with Heikhalot literature, which abounds in hymns, can be noted in the explicitly mystic introduction to the seven crowings of the cock — the only non-hymnal text in the collection — and the striking resemblance between the language of the additions and that of Shi’ur Koma and other examples of this literature. In Seder Rabba de-Bereshit, a Heikhalot tract, in conjunction with the description of ma’aseh bereshit, there is a clear parallel to Perek Shira’s praise of creation and to the structure of its hymns. The concept reflected in this source is based on a belief in the existence of angelic archetypes of created beings who mediate between God and His creation, and express their role through singing hymns. As the first interpretations of Perek Shira also bear witness to its mystic character and angelologic significance, it would appear to be a mystical chapter of Heikhalot literature, dating from late Tannaitic — early Amoraic period, or early Middle Ages. . . .

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributed by: the Mesorah (TaNaKh), Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

An English translation of Psalm 104 set side-by-side with the Masoretic text. . . .

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, a hymn of creation (translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan)

Contributed by: Mordecai Kaplan, the Mesorah (TaNaKh), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Psalms 104, translated by Mordecai Kaplan and presented as “God as Creator and Renewer of Nature” can be found on p. 360-5 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945), the first prayer in a subsection of supplementary prayers called “GOD IN NATURE.” . . .

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, a hymn of creation (translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh), Unknown

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of “Barkhi Nafshi” (Psalms 104) for Rosh Ḥodesh in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with the verses comprising the Psalm. –Aharon N. Varady . . .

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איל דייו דישﬞו קי בואינו אירה | El Disho Ke Bueno Era — a Ladino pizmon for Erev Shabbat (transcribed and translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer)

🆕 שִׁיר הַיִּחוּד לְיוֹם שִׁישִׁי | Hymn of Divine Unity for the Sixth Day, by an unknown paytan (ca. 12th c.)

פֶּרֶק שִׁירָה | Pereq Shirah, a litany of verses spoken by the creatures & works of Creation (after the arrangement of Natan Slifkin)

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, a hymn of creation (translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan)

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, a hymn of creation (translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

תהלים קמ״ז | Psalms 147, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

תהלים קמ״ח | Psalms 148: Hallelu-YAH! (translation by Rabbi Arthur Waskow)

תהלים קמ״ח | Psalms 148, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi