Before potatoes entered the diet of Ashkenazi Jews, latkes were cheese pancakes, or cassola, as described in “Even Boḥan” (Touchstone), a satyrical poem by Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir (b.1286-died after 1328). . . .
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Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Susan Weingarten (translation) and Ḳalonymus ben Ḳalonymus ben Meir
Shared on ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ח (2017-11-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Ḥanukkah, Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev
Tags:  anti-predatory, dairy foods, 51st century A.M., Megillat Yehudit, 14th century C.E., the Rainbow, Megillat Antiokhus, Late Middle Ages, Even Boḥan
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Yeshayahu ben Amoz
Shared on י״ב בכסלו ה׳תשע״ח (2017-11-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Kabbalat Shabbat, Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev
Tags: כבוד kavod, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., South Jerusalem, Kehilat Kol HaNeshama 
Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman introduced the tradition of reading these verses from Isaiah during the month of Kislev through the end of Ḥanukkah in his Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev of Kehillat Kol HaNeshamah (R’ Levi Weiman-Kelman, R’ Ma’ayan Turner, and Shaul Vardi, 2007). The translation provided here was adapted from the one made by Shaul Vardi in Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev. –Aharon Varady. . . . 
Contributor(s): Jason Schapera (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ג בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Liturgical customs of Kabbalists, in the merit of Matatiyah 
Kabbalistic kavvanot and blessing formulations for the eight nights of Ḥanukkah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yehudis Fishman and צבי אלימלך שפירא
Shared on כ״ה בכסלו ה׳תשע״ג (2012-12-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: 19th century C.E., kindling, Bluzhov, Dinov, Minhag Ḥasidei Dinov, Munkacz, 56th century A.M., Ḥasidic, lamp lighting 
For the purpose of the unification of the Holy One and His divine (feminine) Presence, with trepidation and love and love and trepidation, to unify the name Yud-Kay with Vav-Kay (the four letters of the Tetragrammaton) with a complete unity in the name of all Israel, behold I intend in the lighting of the Hanukkah candle to fulfill the command of my Creator as our wise men of blessed memory have commanded us to repair her root in a supernal abode. . . . 
Contributor(s): Bonna Devora Haberman
Shared on ח׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ג (2012-12-20) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: kindling, Progressive Zionism, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., lamp lighting, olive oil, ישראל Yisrael 
This is an intention that I composed for the conclusion of a performance piece, Inner Fire, created and performed by my Mistabra Institute for Jewish Textual Activism at Brandeis University in 2002. It is as relevant today as ever. Please use it for inspiration when you light Ḥanuka candles. . . . 
Contributor(s): Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality
Shared on כ״ז בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Visual Meditation
Tags: Light, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אור הגנוז or haganuz 
A Ḥanukkah meditation on the hidden, infinite light of creation, the Or HaGanuz, with some of the midrashic and Ḥasidic sources it is based upon. . . . Shared on י״ז בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (2010-11-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry Just in time for Ḥanukkah, Chajm Guski shares a חנוכה מדריך (Ḥanukkah Madrikh), Handbook for Ḥanukkah, with a Deutsch translation and transliteration of the blessings on lighting the Ḥanukiah, the kavanah, HaNerot HaLalu, and the piyyut, Maoz Tzur. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg, Rabbi Jill Hammer, Ph.D. and neohasid.org
Shared on א׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ט (2018-12-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: זמירות zemirot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, banu hoshekh l'garesh 
Alternative lyrics to the popular Ḥanukkah song, Banu Ḥoshekh L’Garesh by Sara Levi-Tanai (1960). . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sara Levi-Tanai
Shared on ב׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״א (2010-12-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: 20th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, 58th century A.M., banu hoshekh l'garesh, ḥiloni, ישראל Yisrael
Some might seem surprised that this work isn’t in the Public Domain simply by virtue of the song’s popularity. Translations of Banu Ḥoshekh L’garesh are not uncommon despite the apparent lack of translation rights provided to translators. This all underlines how copyright is regularly ignored in the living practice of creative cultures. And yet, copyright law and the protections it affords are ignored at the peril of a copyrighted work’s remixers, publishers, translators, and other creatives. Both the song and an anonymous English translation are here being provided as an example for this article on copyright under Fair Use. Each individual contribution to our collective intellectual commons may be small, but together, our contributions will make a tremendous resource for a renewed vibrant living and creative culture. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״א בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: 19th century C.E., Freedom, liberty, martyrdom, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer 
A prayer for festival of Ḥanukkah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yosef ben Shlomo of Carcassonne, Girls in Trouble and Dr. Sara Reguer
Shared on י״ב בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-06-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, predation, Judith, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages 
“Odecha ki anafta bi (I give thanks to you although you were angry with me) was composed by Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne, who is dated to the first half of the eleventh century. This elegant and abstruse poem tells an epic tale of the Jews’ resistance to the decrees of Antiochus IV and includes accounts of both the Hasmonean bride and Judith. It bears a considerable resemblance to texts 4 and 12 of the Hanukkah midrashim[ref]See Grintz, Sefer Yehudit, pp. 205, 207–08[/ref] and this is evidence for the circulation of the joint Hasmonean daughter-Judith tales in the eleventh century, even if the surviving manuscripts of these stories are from a later date.” (Deborah Levine Gera, “The Jewish Textual Traditions” in The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines (2010).) . . . 
Contributor(s): Jonah Rank and Shlomoh ben Eliyahu Sharvit haZahav
Shared on כ״ג בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-08) — under the following terms: Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Byzantium, blessings following the shema, rap battles, מי כמוך Mi Khamokha 
A 15th century Ḥanukkah vs. Shabbat rap battle. Technically it’s not a rap battle–just a piyyut introducing “Mi Khamokha” in the blessing after the Shema on the Shabbat morning of Ḥanukkah . . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi
Shared on כ״ג בכסלו ה׳תשע״ו (2015-12-04) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, High Middle Ages, Maoz Tsur, Mainz 
A singing translation of the popular piyyut (devotional poem), “Maoz Tzur,” by Reb Zalman for Ḥanukkah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Solomon da Silva Solis-Cohen (translation), Joseph Herman Hertz and Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi
Shared on כ״ו בכסלו ה׳תשע״ח (2017-12-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, British Jewry, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, Maoz Tsur, Mainz, post-Holocaust liturgical adaptations 
Maoz Tsur as translated by Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, with Hebrew adapted in the first stanza by Joseph Herman Hertz, chief rabbi of the British Empire. . . . 
Contributor(s): Ilana Streit
Shared on כ״א בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: על הנסים al hanissim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical al haNissim 
An interpretive version of Al HaNisim for Ḥanukkah that is playful, powerful, and embodied. May it fuel our activism, including the self-care and community-building that is part of activism. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and the Masoretic Text
Shared on כ״ט בתמוז ה׳תשע״ז (2017-07-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41)
Tags: interpretive translation, תהלים Psalms, English Translation, North America, Jewish Renewal, פתיחות Petiḥot, Uva Letsiyon, מוצאי שבת Motsei Shabbat, Liturgical customs of Kabbalists, Psalms 30, devotional interpretation 
This is an English translation of Psalms 30 by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). The translation was set side-by-side with the original Hebrew by Aharon Varady. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ח בכסלו ה׳תשע״ו (2015-12-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Shavuot, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah
Tags: 20th century C.E., animal welfare, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim, בהמות behemot, animal protection, 57th century A.M., Yiddish songs, Pedagogical songs, ba'alei ḥayyim, ḥayot, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution 
“Tsaar Balei Ḥayyim” ([It is forbidden to cause] suffering to a living creature), source unknown. Many thanks to Tiferet Zimmern-Kahan for recording the niggun for the song and to Naftali Ejdelman and The Jewish Daily Forward for providing the lyrics. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Hirsh Glik
Shared on ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ח (2017-11-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, War
Tags: 20th century C.E., resistance, 58th century A.M., Yiddish songs, Vilna, Yiddish vernacular prayer, the Holocaust, Yiddishland, Guerrilla warfare, partisan resistance, anti-fascist action, anti-Nazi 
The Yiddish resistance song, “Partisaner Lid” (The Partisan Song) was composed by Hirsh Glick in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. . . . 
Contributor(s): Lieba B. Ruth
Shared on כ״ו בכסלו ה׳תשע״ג (2012-12-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah
Tags: four worlds, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., dreidel, Los Angeles, neo-lurianic 
Every Jewish holy day, even Shabbat and the highest ones, we call forth all the 22 Hebrew Letters to join us in celebration. For those of us who study Kabbalah from within the realm of the Alef-Bet, Ḥanukkah is unique in that we are given a magical tool with which to activate these signs and wonders. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ב באייר ה׳תשע״ב (2012-05-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Pesaḥ, Ḥanukkah, Shavuot, Tehilim Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), Shabbat, Sukkot, Sefirat ha'Omer, Slavery & Captivity
Tags: acrostic, labyrinth, cyclical, barley, wheat, first fruits, anxiety, Psalms 67, raḥav, shalmah, a red ribbon, walled cities, captives, אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic 
Psalm 67 is a priestly blessing for all the peoples of the earth to be sustained by the earth’s harvest (yevulah), and it is a petition that all humanity recognize the divine nature (Elohim) illuminating the world. Composed of seven verses, the psalm is often visually depicted as a seven branched menorah. There are 49 words in the entire psalm, and in the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l there is one word for each day of the Sefirat haOmer. Similarly, the fifth verse has 49 letters and each letter can be used as a focal point for meditating on the meaning of the day in its week in the journey to Shavuot, the festival of weeks (the culmination of the barley harvest), and the festival of oaths (shevuot) in celebration of receiving the Torah. Many of the themes of Psalm 67 are repeated in the prayer Ana b’Koaḥ, which also has 49 words, and which are also used to focus on the meaning of each day on the cyclical and labyrinthine journey towards Shavuot. . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on ל׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״ה (2014-12-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet
Tags: eco-conscious, North America, solstice, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, Northampton 
Here’s a first draft of a brief liturgy for last night, for solstice plus Ḥanukkah. Note that this is a kind of eco-liturgy, but it also stands on its own without imposing an ecological overlay. Since it’s still solstice all day, you may want to use this prayer now, or at dusk tonight. . . . 
Contributor(s): חתול יהודי
Shared on ו׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ו (2015-12-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Ḥanukkah, Art & Craft
Tags: mandala, spiral text, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
A mandala for Ḥanukkah by Brazilian Yemenite Jewish artist, GatoJudeau . . . 
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on כ״ב בכסלו ה׳תשע״ד (2013-11-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)
Tags: eco-conscious, United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid 
May the next Thanksgivukkah be a time of health and abundance for all of you who will receive the world from our hands. May we together find away to make sure that there is health and wealth and beauty not just for our family, not just for the Jewish people and humanity, but for all living creatures who share this planet with us. May the One bless us with the power and wisdom to birth a society that shows love to the world around us, that lives with love towards all beings. . . . |
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