This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for Yom haKippurim (the Day of Expiation), the second of the three Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe). Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a transcription or translation of a historical work by someone else. Filter resources by Name Filter resources by Tag Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range
Resources filtered by COLLABORATOR: “Aharon N. Varady (transcription)” (clear filter)Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An alphabetic acrostic pizmon for seliḥot and Yom Kippur with an alphabetic acrostic English translation. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A pizmon in the nusaḥ hasepharadim recited at Seliḥot during the monh of Elul and Yom Kippur. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The full text of the alphabetic mesostic piyyut, Hayom, according to the Italian nusaḥ. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the piyyut “Ma’aseh Eloheinu (The work of our God)” a piyyut by Meshullam ben Ḳalonymous in the qerovot section of the reader’s repetition of the Yom Kippur shaḥarit amidah, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Yom Kippur, Avodat Yom ha-Kippurim vol. 2 (1904), p. 67. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the piyyut “Asher Omets Tehilatekha (Thou, the might of whose praise)” a piyyut by an unknown paytan (possibly Meshullam ben Ḳalonymous) in the qerovot section of the reader’s repetition of the Yom Kippur shaḥarit amidah, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Yom Kippur, Avodat Yom ha-Kippurim vol. 2 (1904), p. 68. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the piyyut “Asher Eimatekha (Thou whose fear…)” a piyyut by Meshullam ben Ḳalonymous for the reader’s repetition of the Yom Kippur musaf amidah, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Yom Kippur, Avodat Yom ha-Kippurim vol. 2 (1904), pp. 147-149. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A rhymed translation of the piyyut sung following the Havdallah ritual. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The text of the piyyut, “HaMavdil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Emma Lazarus’s translation, simply referred to as “Hymn” — derived from the piyyut יְיָ מָה אָדָם by Shlomo ibn Gabirol — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 68-70. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An adaptation in rhymed English verse of an excerpt of Shlomo ibn Gabirol’s Keter Malkhut Elsie Davis. First published in The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (April 1895), pp. 461-464. The adaptation begins with section 34 of the piyyut. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Servant of God” is an adapted English rhmying translation by Alice Montefiore Lucas of a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi, first published in the former’s first collection of translations Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894), pp. 9-12. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A rhyming English translation of the piyyut Adonai Negdekha kol Ta’avati. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Israel Zangwill’s translation of Omnam Kén by Rabbi Yom Tov of York (Joigny), was first published albeit incomplete, as “Atonement Hymn” in Blind Children: Poems (1903), pp. 134-135. Introducing the piyyut, Zangwill notes, “The translation of this curiosity of literature preserves, without adding or subtracting a single word, the precise metre, rhyme-scheme, and alphabetical acrostic of the twelfth-century Hebrew original.” A year later, it was published complete, opposite Hebrew verse, in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim (Evening Service) (1904), p. 38. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the Shir haKavod (“Hymn of Glory,” also known by its incipit “An’im Zemirot”) attributed to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid of Regensburg, included at the conclusion of the Shir haYiḥud (first attested in print in Thiengen 1560). This translation by Israel Zangwill, was first published in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim (Evening Service) (1904), pp. 73-74. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the piyyut “Ki Hinéh kaḤomer (Lo! as the potter…)” a piyyut by an unknown paytan for maariv on Yom Kippur, published in Adler and Davis’s Maḥzor for Yom Kippur, Avodat Yom ha-Kippurim vol. 1 (1904), p. 39. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the piyyuṭ for Yom Kippur known by its incipit שופט כל הארץ “Shofeṭ kol ha-Arets” (“Thou Judge of all the earth”) by the late 12th century payṭan, Shlomo ben Abun of France, as adapted in the form of a rhyming translation by Nina Salaman for Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim vol. 2, arranged and translated by Arthur Davis & Herbert Adler (1904), p. 86. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the tkhine for candlemaking on erev Yom Kippur as found in Sarah bat Tovim’s Tkhine of Three Gates, likely written by her sometime in the early 18th century. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 55th century A.M., candles, erev yom kippur, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, Jewish Women's Prayers, memento mori, ḳever mesten, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, ימים נוראים yamim noraim, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): |
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