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Yisrael Najara
Yisrael ben Mosheh Najara (Hebrew: ישראל בן משה נאג'ארה; Arabic: إسرائيل بن موسى النجارة, Isra'il bin Musa al-Najara; c. 1555, Safed, Ottoman Empire – c. 1625, Gaza, Ottoman Empire) was a prolific Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist, and rabbi of Gaza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_ben_Moses_Najaraאָנָא אֵלֵךְ מֵרוּחֶךָ | Ana Élékh Méruḥekha, a piyyut by Yisrael Najara (ca. 16th c.)
Contributed on: 21 Mar 2020 by ❧
A piyyut of divine-closeness by Yisrael Najara. . . .
כתובה לחג השבועות | Ketubah for Shavuot, by Yisrael Najara (ca. 16th c.)
Contributed on: 14 May 2023 by ❧
In many eastern Sephardic and Mizraḥi communities, there is a custom that a poetic “ketubah,” or marriage-contract, is recited before the Torah service on Shavuot. This custom, based on the midrashic idea that the Torah is the ketubah for the marriage between the bride Israel and the groom God, is beloved by the ḳabbalists. By far the most commonly used Shavuot ketubah is that of the great paytan and meḳubal Yisrael ben Moshe Najara, who wrote the following some time in the sixteenth century. This is a new translation of Najara’s poem. . . .
יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) rhyming translation by Israel Abrahams (1914)
Contributed on: 18 Sep 2021 by ❧
The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with a rhyming English translation. . . .
יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translated by Rabbi Israel Brodie (1962)
Contributed on: 12 Mar 2021 by ❧
The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .
יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translated by Paltiel Birnbaum (1949)
Contributed on: 12 Mar 2021 by ❧
The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .
יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola (1857)
Contributed on: 24 Jan 2022 by ❧
This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Yah Ribon” by Rabbi Yisrael Najara was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .
יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translation by Sara-Kinneret Lapidot
Contributed on: 20 Jun 2021 by ❧
The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
