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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

This is an archive of prayers and songs written for, or relevant to, the New Year's Day for All of Creation -- marking the beginning of the seventh month and its ensemble of festival days leading towards the commencement of the rainy season in the Northern Hemisphere. (Rosh haShanah l'Maaseh Bereshit coincides with Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei.)

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אֱלֹהִים ׀ אֵלִי אַתָּה אֲֽשַׁחֲרֶךָּ | Elohim Eli Atah Ashaḥarekha, a zulat piyyuṭ for the Shabbat before Rosh haShanah by Rabbi Isaac ben Moses

This is the third piyyuṭ in a yotsrot cycle for the Shabbat before Rosh haShanah, according to Minhag Polin (as traditionally practiced in the Ashkenazi communities of northeastern Germany and Poland), all written by a Rabbi Yitzḥak ben Moshe haLevi according to the authorial acrostic. Zunz identifies the author as Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Mainz, who died in the Gzerot Tatno of 1096. Fraenkel disputes this and suggests Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (a/k/a the Or Zarua), of the Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, who died in around 1270. This zulat piyyuṭ, citing Psalms 119 repeatedly, begs for divine justice, invoking martyrs’ memories (and perhaps endorsing Fraenkel’s suggestion that its authorship must postdate the Gzerot Tatno!).

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, German translation, Minhag Polin, פיוטים piyyuṭim, יוצר אור yotser ohr, זולת zulat

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Isaac ben Moses of Vienna

שְׂאוּ לְבַבְכֶם לְכַפֵּיכֶם | Səū l’Vavkhem l’Khapeikhem, an ofan piyyuṭ for the Shabbat before Rosh haShanah by Rabbi Isaac ben Moses

This is the second piyyuṭ in a yotsrot cycle for the Shabbat before Rosh haShanah, according to Minhag Polin (as traditionally practiced in the Ashkenazi communities of northeastern Germany and Poland), all written by a Rabbi Yitzḥak ben Moshe haLevi according to the authorial acrostic. Zunz identifies the author as Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Mainz, who died in the Gzerot Tatno of 1096. Fraenkel disputes this and suggests Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (a/k/a the Or Zarua), of the Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, who died in around 1270. The ofan is an invocation to the listener to repent, calling upon specific angels by name. Also included is the German text of Isaac Seligman Baer’s Avodat Yisrael translation, in modernized spelling.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, German translation, Minhag Polin, ofanim, פיוטים piyyuṭim, יוצר אור yotser ohr

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Isaac ben Moses of Vienna

אֵל ׀ אֱֽלֹהִים ה׳ דִּבֶּר וַיִּקְרָא | El Elohim Hashem Diber vaYiqra, a yotser piyyuṭ for the Shabbat before Rosh haShanah by Rabbi Isaac ben Moses

This is the first piyyuṭ in a yotsrot cycle for the Shabbat before Rosh haShanah, according to Minhag Polin (as traditionally practiced in the Ashkenazi communities of northeastern Germany and Poland), all written by a Rabbi Yitzḥak ben Moshe haLevi according to the authorial acrostic. Zunz identifies the author as Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Mainz, who died in the Gzerot Tatno of 1096. Fraenkel disputes this and suggests Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (a/k/a the Or Zarua), of the Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, who died in around 1270. The yotser is an exultant heikhalot-tinged description of the midrash of seven heavens befitting the Shabbat before creation. Also included is the German text of Isaac Seligman Baer’s Avodat Yisrael translation, in modernized spelling.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, German translation, Minhag Polin, פיוטים piyyuṭim, יוצר אור yotser ohr, יוצרות yotsrot

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Isaac ben Moses of Vienna

Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz [№1] | On the day before the New Year in the burial ground [№1], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz” 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 1835 edition as teḥinah №104 on pp. 207-208.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., cemetery prayers, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, memento mori, תחינות teḥinot, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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

Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz [№2] | On the day before the New Year in the burial ground [№2], a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Desselben Inhalts [Am Tage vor Neujahr auf dem Begräbnißplatz №2]” 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 1835 edition as teḥinah №105 on pp. 208-209.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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

Am Neujahrstage, Zweites Gebet vor dem Schofer blasen | On Rosh haShanah, a second prayer before the Shofar is blown, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Zweites Gebet vor dem Schofar blasen” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №36 on pp. 44-46. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №33 on pp. 49-51. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №35 on pp. 52-54.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, שופר shofar, shofar blowing, תחינות teḥinot, תשרי זמן Tishrei Zman, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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

תהלים מ״ז | (Psalms 47) Dieser Psalm wird siebenmal vor dem Schofer blasen wiederholt (translation by Yehoshua Heshil Miro, 1829)

“Dieser Psalm wird siebenmal vor dem Schofer blasen wiederholt (Psalm 47)” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №35 on p. 44. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №31 on pp. 47-48. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №33 on pp. 50-51.

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Tehilim Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ, מזמור Mizmor, Psalms 47, שופר shofar, shofar blowing, תשרי זמן Tishrei Zman

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

Am Neujahrstage vor dem Schofer blasen | On Rosh haShanah, before the Shofar is blown, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am Neujahrstage vor dem Schofer blasen” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №34 on pp. 43-44. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №32 on pp. 48-49. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №34 on pp. 51-52.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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

Betrachtungen für die zehn Bußtage | Reflections for the Ten Days of Penance, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Betrachtungen für die zehn Bußtage” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №42 on pp. 53-56. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №41 pp. 64-68. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №43 on pp. 67-71.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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

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

Am Neujahrstag und Versöhnungstag wenn der Vorbether Alenu sagt | On Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur at Aleinu, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am Neujahrstag und Versöhnungstag wenn der Vorbether Alenu sagt” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №40 on pp. 51-52. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №39 pp. 62-63. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №41 on pp. 65-66.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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

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

Am Neujahrs⸗, am Versöhnungstage und am siebenten Tage des Laubhüttenfestes, wenn man Behufs der üblichen Vorlesungen die Gesetzrolle aus der heiligen Lade nimmt | On Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, and Hoshana Rabbah when one removes the Torah from the holy Ark, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Bei eben dieser Gelegenheit am Neujahrs⸗, am Versöhnungstage und am siebenten Tage des Laubhüttenfestes” 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 №19 on pp. 23-24. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №19 on pp. 27-28. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №21 on pp. 30-31.

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Before the Aliyot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, הוצאת ספר תורה Removal of the Torah from the Ark, תחינות teḥinot

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

Gebet wenn der Vorbeter unssane Tokef vorträgt (וּנְתַנֶּה תֹּקֶף) | Prayer when the prayer leader recites u-N’taneh Toqef, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1833)

“Gebet wenn der Vorbeter unssane Tokef vorträgt” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1833 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion on pp. 47-48. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №34 on pp. 51-52. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №36 on pp. 54-55.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical unetaneh toqef, תחינות teḥinot, תשרי זמן Tishrei Zman, ונתנה תקף unetaneh toqef, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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

Gebet am Tage vor Neujahr und am Tage vor dem Versöhnungsfeste | Prayer on the day before Rosh haShanah and on the day before Yom Kippur, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Gebet am Tage vor Neujahr und am Tage vor dem Versöhnungsfeste” 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 1835 edition as teḥinah №133 on pp. 249-252.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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

Am Neujahrstag und am Versöhnungstag, wenn der Vorbeter knieend spricht: וַאַנַחֲנוּ כּוֹרְעִים | On Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, when the prayer leader kneels saying “va-anaḥnu kor’im”, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Am Neujahrstag, ראשׁ השׁנה und am Versöhnungstag, יוֹם כִּיפּוּר wenn der Vorbeter knieend spricht: וַאַנַחֲנוּ כּוֺרְעִים” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition, as teḥinah №44 pp. 74-75. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №46 on pp. 77-78.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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

Contributor(s):

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

Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht | Prayers said at various points as you circumambulate the burial ground, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht” 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 1835 edition as teḥinah №103 on pp. 202-207.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., cemetery prayers, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, in the merit of our ancestors, Jewish Women's Prayers, memento mori, ḳever mesten, תחינות teḥinot, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

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

Am Tage vor dem neuen Jahre oder dem Versöhnungsfeste, wenn man die Gräber besucht | [Prayer] for when you visit the graves on Erev Rosh haShanah or Yom Kippur before the Seudah Mafseket, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer offered on erev Rosh haShanah or Yom Kippur to visit the local Jewish cemetery.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, cemetery prayers, erev yom kippur, German vernacular prayer, memento mori, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, ימים נוראים yamim noraim

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Betrachtung am Neujahrsund Versöhnungstage | Meditation on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A meditation on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippurim.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, ימים נוראים yamim noraim

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet eines jungen Mädchens am Neujahrsfeste | Prayer of a young girl on Rosh haShanah, by Lise Tarlau (1907)

“Gebet eines jungen Mädchens am Neujahrsfeste” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 126-128.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet für diejenigen, die Gottesdienste an den Hohen Feiertagen leiten | Prayer for Those Who Lead High Holy Day Services, by Lior Bar-Ami

This prayer by Lior bar-Ami for the ḥazzan of services during the Yamim Noraim (days of awe) was first offered in German and English in 2020.

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, חזנות ḥazzanut, prayers of the shaliaḥ tsibbur, רשויות reshuyot

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Lior Bar-Ami

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