This is an archive of prayers composed for (or relevant to) יוֹם מְתֻרְגְּמָן (Yom Meturgeman), commemorating the translation of the Torah into Greek on Shemini b'Tevet, the 8th of the month of Tevet, sometime in the 3rd century BCE. The day is part of a complex of days culminating in the fast of the 10th of Tevet (Asarah b'Tevet). While earlier sources celebrate the translation known as the ⅬⅩⅩ or Septuagint (find Bavli Megillah 8b-9b), later sources from the Geonic period onward (Tractate Soferim 1:7 and Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 580:2) consider the day ominous, especially in its calendrical proximity to the use of the Septuagint by apostates as a container of prooftexts for their beliefs. Click here to contribute a prayer you have composed for Yom Meturgeman. Filter resources by Name Filter resources by Tag Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range
The mantra-like piyyut “Ēin k-Ēlohēinu,” a praise of God’s attributes and uniqueness featuring incremental repetition, is found in siddurim as far back as the siddur of Rav Amram, and may date back to the Hekhalot literature. Many versions of it have been compiled in different languages, most famously Flory Jagoda (zç”l)’s Judezmo variant “Non como muestro Dyo.” Here the editor has compiled traditional Yiddish and Ladino translations, as well as developed new Aramaic and Arabic translations for this piyyut. The post-piyyut verses used in both the Ashkenazi and Sephardic rites have been included. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is a macaronic poem for Yom Meturgeman. Macaronic poetry is poetry in multiple languages at once. In this case, the languages reflected are Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino, and English, with a repeated Hebrew refrain. Each language is meant to rhyme with the colloquial Hebrew as it would be read — i.e. though the Yiddish doesn’t rhyme with the modern Hebrew pronunciation, it rhymes with the traditional Ashkenazi one. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is an original ḳedushtaot cycle for Yom Meturgeman, the eighth of Tevet, to be inserted into the ‘amidah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A new introductory piyyut-meturgeman serving as a reshut for the targum of the haftarah. This genre used to be very popular, especially among the old French paytanim, but nowadays the only one still recited is Yetsiv Pitgam, said in some communities on the second day of Shavuot — although the targum is no longer. I think that’s a shame, so I wrote a new one. I’m probably one of the first people to write one of these since the expulsion of 1394. So of course, it’s meta as all get-out, being a reshut not just for the targum of the haftarah but for the custom of reading the targum of the haftarah with a reshut at all. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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