Purim Qatan • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers and song composed for or relevant to Purim Qatan.
During leap years in the rabbinic Jewish calendar, Purim falls on the second month of Adar (otherwise known as Adar bet). The 14th of the first month of Adar (Adar Alef) is then called Purim Qatan (“Little Purim”) and the 15th is Shushan Purim Qatan, for which there are no set observances.
A leap year in the Jewish calendar occurs seven times in the 19-year Metonic cycle, namely, in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 of the cycle. This means that a leap month is added every two to three years.
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Hashem is Everywhere! — a song by Rabbi Yosef Goldstein (1972)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yosef Goldstein

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🤦 Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), National Brotherhood Week, Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat

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חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, 20th century C.E., affirmations, זמירות zemirot, circle drawing, panentheism, 58th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, Yiddish translation, Pedagogical songs, English vernacular prayer, children's education

The pedagogical song “Hashem is Everywhere!” by Rabbi Yosef Goldstein (1928-2013) can be found in the context of his story, “Where is Hashem?,” the second track on his album מדות טובות Jewish Ethics Through Story and Song (Menorah Records 1972). In the instructions to reciting the lyrics, the singer points first to the six cardinal directions and lastly, by pointing inward towards one’s self. In so doing, one explicitly affirms the idea of the divine within ourselves and implicitly, in each other. . . .

הִנֵּה שָׁם אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Where We Can Find Yah, a prayer-poem by Eugene Kohn (1945) inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (Song Offerings, 1912)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Eugene Kohn, David Frischmann (translation) and Rabindranath Tagore

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🤦 Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat

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58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, cosmic religion, is it Sikh or Hassidic?, universalist prayers, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, 20th century C.E.

“Where We Can Find God,” a prayer-poem inspired by passages appearing in David Frishman’s Hebrew translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. . . .

אַיֵּךְ | Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1904)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ruth Nevo (translation) and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Purim Qatan

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modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Queens, Mrozy, מי או מה who or what, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, 20th century C.E., eros

The poem, Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. . . .

א דוּדעלע (אַיֵּה אֶמְצָאֶךָּ)‏ | A Dudele (Where shall I seek you?), by Rabbi Levi Yitsḥaq of Berditchev (ca. 18th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon Varady (translation/Hebrew) and Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 🤦 Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat

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panentheism, 56th century A.M., creator within creation, 18th Century C.E., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, Hebrew translation, Yiddish songs, חסידות Ḥasidut, הבדלות havdalot, non-dual theology, זמירות zemirot, תשובה teshuvah

A profound song invoking divine presence. . . .

יָהּ, אָנָה אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Yah, Where shall I find you?, a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Nina Davis Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

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🤦 Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat

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אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, alienation, 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., dveykut

A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . .