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פזמון בשעת המגפה ח״ו | Pizmon for a time of plague (God forbid!), by Rabbi Moses Mendels (ca. early 17th c.)

This seliḥah, “Moshel ba-Elyonim Atah Yadata,” was written by Rabbi Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach during an epidemic. It is included in the Seliḥot of Posen, Krakow, Prague, Worms, and Alsace. The text here was transcribed from the Siddur Kol Bo, vol. 3 (1923), p. 33. . . .

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Epidemics & Pandemics

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17th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, סליחות səliḥot

Contributor(s):

Mosheh ben Yeshayah Menaḥem Bachrach, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

🆕 יום טוב של ק״ק קאוואליאון לכ״ה בחדש אייר | Poetic additions for 25 Iyyar, commemorating the abatement of the Plague in Cavaillon (1631)

The Seder ha-Tamid, a Provençal (Nusaḥ Comtat Venaissin) siddur published in Avignon in 1766, has liturgical additions for an amazing five different local festivals — one for Avignon, and two each for Carpentras and Cavaillon. Here’s a series of texts for the twenty-fifth of Iyar in Cavaillon, commemorating the abatement of a deadly plague on 25 Iyyar 5391 (27 May 1631), including an Al haNisim of uncertain origin and a series of Biblical readings. Uniquely among the local festivals in this siddur, 25 Iyyar calls for a Torah reading not of the Song of the Sea, but the plague against Israel in Numbers 17. . . .

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Purim Sheni, Epidemics & Pandemics

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1629–1631 Italian plague, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., על הנסים al hanissim, Arba Kehillot, Cavallion, Epidemic, local communal deliverance commemorations, Nusaḥ Comtat Venaissin, salvation, Second Plague Pandemic, second Purims

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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