תהלים י״ב בלשון לאדינו | Psalms 12 by David in Ladino (Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit, ca. 1852/3)

To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of Psalms 12 from תהילים או לוס סאלמוס ; טריסלאד’אד’וס דיל לשון הקדש אין לה לינגואה ספרדית (Tehillim, or the Psalms, translated from the Holy language [Hebrew] into the Sephardic language, Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit 1852/3) from a digital copy made available by the collection of Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington. Please join me in making a complete transcription of this Ladino translation of Psalms. –Aharon N. Varady . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat, Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Al haShminit, brit milah, Izmir, Ladino Translation, מזמור Mizmor, Needing Proofreading, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Jewry, תהלים Psalms, Psalms 12, פרשת וזאת הברכה parashat vZot haBrakhah

Contributor(s): David ben Yishai (traditional attribution), Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שירת הים | Shirat haYam, recitation for a day with a circumcision according to Seder Avodat Yisrael (1868)

According to Isaac Seligman Baer’s famed Seder Avodat Yisrael, one of the first scholarly siddurim critical editions ever published, there was a custom that on the day of a circumcision, the P’sukei d-Zimra reading of Shirat haYam along with a portion of its introduction would be recited aloud as a call and response by the mohel (circumcizer) and sandaḳ (godfather). Baer’s division of the verses (from Seder Avodat Yisrael, pp. 72-74) is included here, along with a new translation. . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat, Shirat ha-Yam

Tags: Atah Hu, אז ישיר Az Yashir, ברית brit, brit milah, circumcision, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, שירת הים Shirat haYam

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

Am Tage der Beschneidung | On the day of circumcision, a teḥinah by Anna Lachmann (1907)

“Am Tage der Beschneidung” by Anna Lachmann can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 404-405. . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ברית brit, brit milah, circumcision, German vernacular prayer, infants, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Anna Lachmann and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

פיוט למילה | Piyyut for a Milah (circumcision) by Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen

This is a piyyut (liturgical poem) which is intended to be recited at a brit. It is connected to my liturgy for a “chag hachnassah labrit” (available here). The explanation for the chag is also the basis for the piyyut. Translation into English by Shoshanna Gershenson, Maeera Schreiber and Aryeh Cohen. . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., brit milah, circumcision, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, North America, פיוטים piyyutim

Contributor(s): Aryeh Cohen