Purim • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Contributor(s):	Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality
Shared on:	י״ב באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-02-24)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Contemplation, Purim
Tags:	meditation, unknowing, עד דלא ידע ad d'lo yada, resting meditation
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • Sources and meditation instructions excerpted from a larger source sheet on Not-knowing, Joy and Purim, from the Applied Jewish Spirituality “Kabbalah Through the Calendar” course. . . .

אֲשֶׁר הֵנִיא | Asher Heni, a piyyut recited after the reading of Megillat Esther and its concluding blessing

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Simeon Singer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	י״א באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-02-23)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Purim
Tags:	acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Alphabetic Acrostic, mid-first millennium CE, Needing Attribution
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • An alphabetical acrostic piyyut celebrating the victory of Esther and Mordekhai over the forces of Haman. . . .

מִי כָמֽוֹךָ וְאֵין כָּמֽוֹךָ | Mi Khamokha v’Ein Kamokha, a retelling of Megillat Esther in a piyyut for Shabbat Zakhor by Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Shared on:	ו׳ באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-02-17)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Purim
Tags:	מגילת אסתר Megillat Esther, פיוטים piyyutim, Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., blessings following the shema, שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The poem Mi Khamokha v-Ein Khamokha, an epic retelling of the book of Esther in verse, was written for Shabbat Zakhor, the Shabbat before Purim, by the great paytan Yehuda ben Shmuel haLevi. It was originally written as a “geulah,” meant to be inserted into the prayer after the Shema in place of the verse beginning with “A new song…” But later Sephardic poskim ruled that it was forbidden to insert piyyutim into the Shema blessings, so in the communities that recite it today it is generally either read after the Full Kaddish as an introduction to the Torah service, or (for instance, in most Spanish and Portuguese communities) within the verse “Kol atzmotai tomarna” in the Nishmat prayer. Wherever you include it in your service, it’s a beautiful and intricately rhymed piyyut, and surprisingly easy to understand at that. It is presented here in a gender-neutral translation with all the Biblical verses cited, alongside a new translation that preserves the fourfold acrostic, two alphabetical and two authorial. –Isaac Gantwerk Mayer . . .

Prayer for the Feast of Purim, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on:	ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22)
Terms:	Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:	Purim
Tags:	19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A prayer for a woman celebrating Purim. . . .

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Seth H. Frisch on 27 February 2018

Contributor(s):	United States Congressional Record and Seth H. Frisch
Shared on:	ט״ו באייר ה׳תשע״ח (2018-04-29)
Terms:	Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works)
Categories:	Purim, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags:	תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Esther, United States of America, 115th Congress, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, Senate
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 February 2018. . . .

תהלים כ״ב בלשון לאדינו | Psalms 22 by David in Ladino (Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit, ca. 1852/3)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit (translation), David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution) and the Masoretic Text
Shared on:	ו׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-02-11)
Terms:	Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:	Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Purim, Ta'anit Esther
Tags:	19th century C.E., תהלים Psalms, Ladino Translation, Izmir, Ottoman Empire, 57th century A.M., מזמור Mizmor, למנציח Lamnatseaḥ, Ottoman Jewry, Psalms 22
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A Ladino translation of Psalms 22 first published in mid-19th century Izmir. . . .

אֵל שְׁמֹר הַמַּלְכָּה | God Save the Queen (Hebrew translation, ca. 1892)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on:	ט׳ בסיון ה׳תשע״ז (2017-06-03)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Government & Country, Purim, Ta'anit Esther
Tags:	19th century C.E., United Kingdom, Britain, British Commonwealth, Queen Victoria, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, British Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Queens, אל שמר המלכה, national anthems, Needing Attribution
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • “God Save the Queen” is an adaptation of “God Save the King,” a work by an unknown author, first circulated by periodicals in mid-18th century England. The author of the Hebrew translation is also unknown and was published in a pamphlet circulated by New Road (Whitechapel) Synagogue in 1892. We are grateful to the Jewish East End of Londonwebsite for providing the source image for the transcription of this work in the Public Domain. . . .

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the Massachusetts State Senate: Rabbi Joseph Rudavsky on 24 March 1959

Contributor(s):	United States Congressional Record and Joseph Rudavsky
Shared on:	ז׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-14)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Purim, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags:	20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Massachusetts, Massachusetts Senate, Lawrence, 86th Congress
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The opening prayer of the Massachusetts State Senate on 24 March 1959, added to the record of the U.S. House of Representatives. . . .

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