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תפלה לכל תענית צבור ועל כל צרה (שלא תבא על הציבור!) | Amidah for Any Communal Fast and On Account of Troubles (Nusaḥ Italki)

Contributor(s):

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

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Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Shiv'ah b'Adar, Ta'anit Esther, Voluntary Fasts

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Alphabetic Acrostic, Public Amidah, Italian Jewry, acrostic, Nusaḥ Italḳi, fasting, Roman minhag, ascetic practice

The Italian rite, unique among Jewish rites, has preserved up until very recently the custom recorded in the Talmud, Masekhet Tagnanith, for communally declared fast days. In this rite, sometimes referred to as the Twenty-Four Blessings, six more blessings are added to the liturgy — the Zikhronot and Shofrot portions more commonly recited on Rosh haShanah, and four different psalms, all interspaced with a poetic litany on behalf of the ancestors’ merit and shofar blasts. It’s a fascinatng service! . . .

תפילה למי שצריך לאכול בימי צום | Prayer for those who need to eat on fast days (A Mitzvah to Eat, 2022)

Contributor(s):

Anat Sharbat (translation), Sarah Osborne and A Mitzvah to Eat

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Fasting, Khaf Sivan, Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Shiv'ah b'Adar, Ta'anit Esther

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עינוי Innui (self-affliction), fasting, פיקוח נפש piqoaḥ nefesh, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Needing Vocalization

This prayer for those who must eat on Jewish fast days, was shared by Sarah Osborne for A Mitzvah to Eat on Facebook. The Hebrew translation of the prayer was offered by Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat. . . .

Gebet für alle Buß- und Fasttage | Prayer on Every Penitential and Fast Day, a teḥinah by Meïr Letteris (1846)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Meïr haLevi Letteris

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Yom Kippur Qatan, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Voluntary Fasts

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19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, paraliturgical el melekh yoshev

“Gebet für alle Buß- und Fasttage” was translated/adapted by Meïr haLevi Letteris and first published in Hebrew and Judeo-German in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (1846 Judeo-German edition), pp. 93-94. In the 1857 edition, it can be found on pp.107-108. In 1852, the prayer was translated into English (with a short prayer added for children) by Miriam Wertheimer under the title “Prayer said on every penitential and fast day” in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 71-72. . . .

Gebet an einem Fasttage | Prayer on a Public Fast Day (תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר), a teḥinah by Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Miriam Wertheimer (translation) and Meïr haLevi Letteris

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Yom Kippur Qatan, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet

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19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry

“Gebet an einem Fasttage. תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר” was written by Meir Letteris and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer…. In the 1846 printing, it appears on pp. 25-26. The translation here by Miriam Wertheimer, “Prayer for a Fast-Day” is as published in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 19-21. . . .

Gebet an einem Fasttage der Gesammtheit | Prayer on a Public Fast Day (תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר), by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Menaḥem Mendel Stern

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Yom Kippur Qatan, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet

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19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry

“Gebet an einem Fasttage der Gesammtheit. תַּעֲנִית צִבּוּר” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in his anthology of teḥinot, Die fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen…. In the 1841 printing, it appears on pp. 37-39. In the 1846 edition, it appears on pp. 39-40. . . .

An einem Fasttage (תענית) | Prayer on a fast day, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

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Yom Kippur Qatan, Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tsom Gedalyah, Asarah b'Tevet, Shiv'ah b'Adar, Ta'anit Esther, Voluntary Fasts

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19th century C.E., fasting, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry

“An einem Fasttage” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №22 on pp. 24-25. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №22 on pp. 30-33. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №22 on pp. 33-36. . . .

אֶבֶן הָרֹאשָׁה | Even haRoshah (“The corner stone”), a seliḥah for the Fast of Tevet attributed to Avraham bar Menaḥem (13th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Asher (translation) and Avraham bar Menaḥem

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Asarah b'Tevet

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13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, סליחות seliḥot

“Even haRoshah” (the corner stone) is a seliḥah recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . .

אֲבוֹתַי כִּי בָטְחוּ | Avotai ki vatkhu (“When our forefathers trusted”), a pizmon for the Fast of Tevet ascribed to Ephraim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaq of Regensburg (12th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), David Asher (translation) and Ephraim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaq

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Asarah b'Tevet

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acrostic, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, פזמונים pizmonim, 50th century A.M.

A pizmon recited on the Fast of Tevet in the tradition of nusaḥ Ashkenaz. . . .

אֶזְכְּרָה מָצוֹק | Ezkerah Matsōk (“I remember the distress”), a seliḥah for the Fast of Tevet attributed to Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils (11th c.)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Asher (translation) and Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils

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Asarah b'Tevet

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Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., סליחות seliḥot, acrostic

“Ezkera Matsok” (I remember the distress) is a seliḥah in alphabetic acrostic recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . .

אַזְכִּֽירָה יָמִים עִם יָמִים | Azkira Yamim Im Yamim, a piyyut for the First Shabbat of Admonition by Rabbi Yannai (ca. early 6th c.)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yanai haPayetan

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Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av, Asarah b'Tevet

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43rd century A.M., Yetsiat Mitsrayim, חורבן Ḥurban, Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE), Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE), alphabetic mesostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Acrostic translation, קינות Ḳinnot, Cairo Geniza, Mourning this Broken World, First Shabbat of Admonition, Shabbatot of Admonition, Three Weeks of Mourning, 6th century C.E.

The works of the great paytan Yannai were, with the exception of a small handful of poems, almost completely lost until their rediscovery in the Cairo Geniza. This poem, an acrostic comparison of the days of Moses and Jeremiah, was written by Yannai to serve as part of the Musaf Ḳedushah on the first Shabbat after 17 Tammuz, on which the opening section of Jeremiah is recited. It bears structural and linguistic similarities to the later famous ḳinah Esh Tuqad. In its liturgical context, it was intended to introduce the final few verses of the Ḳedushah . Nowadays the custom of poetic inserts into the ḳedushah is nearly extinct, but the poem stands as a moving and powerful work nonetheless. . . .

תהלים ס׳ | Psalms 60 for the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet, translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), the Masoretic Text and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)

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Tehilim Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), Asarah b'Tevet

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למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ, Mikhtam, Psalms 60

Psalms 60 in Hebrew with English translation by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer, presented for the fast of the Tenth of Tevet. . . .