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Yom Kippur

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).

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וְיֶאֱתָֽיוּ כֹּל לְעָבְדֶּֽךָ | v-Yèə̀tayu Kōl l’Avdèkha (All the world shall come to serve Thee), an early piyyuṭ with rhymed English translation by Israel Zangwill

This is the early piyyut, “v-Yeètayu Kol l’Avdèkha,” as paraphrased in rhymed English verse by Israel Zangwill in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim vol. 2 (1904), pp. 154-155.

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Yom Kippur

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Crowning, Late Antiquity, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation) and Unknown

אוֹתְךָ אֶדְרוֹשׁ | Otekha Edrosh, by Rabbi Shimon ben Yitsḥaq of Mainz (rhymed translation by Israel Zangwill, 1904)

Israel Zangwill’s rhyming translation of “Otekha Edrosh” by Rabbi Shimon ben Yitsḥaq ben Abun of Mainz, was first published in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim (Evening Service) (1904), pp. 41-43.

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Yom Kippur

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation) and Shimon bar Yitsḥaq of Mainz

הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל | Hamavdil Bein Ḳodesh l’Ḥol, a piyyuṭ attributed to Yitsḥaq ben Yehudah ibn Ghayyat (rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

A rhymed translation of the piyyut sung following the Havdallah ritual.

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Yom Kippur, Motsaei Shabbat

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11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, המבדיל בין קדש לחל Hamavdil Bein Ḳodesh l'Ḥol, הבדלות havdalot, נעילה‎ neilah, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation) and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi

יְיָ מָה אָדָם | Hashem, mah adam (“Almighty! what is man”) — a piyyuṭ for atonement by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (rhymed translation by Emma Lazarus)

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.

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Yom Kippur

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11th century C.E., 48th century A.M., atonement, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Emma Lazarus and Shlomo ibn Gabirol

The Confession, an excerpt from Kether Malkhut (Crown of Royalty) by Shlomo ibn Gabirol adapted by Elsie Davis

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.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interpretive translation, rhyming translation, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol

מִי יִתְּנֵנִי עֶבֶד אֱלוֹהַּ עוֹשֵׂנִי | Mi Yitneni Eved Elo’ah Oseni (“Servant of God”), a piyyut by Yehudah ha-Levi (adapted rhyming English translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

“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.

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Yom Kippur Qatan, Yom Kippur

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English vernacular prayer, rhyming translation, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

אֲֽדֹנָי נֶגְדְּךָ כׇל־תַּאֲוָתִי | Adonai Negdekha kol Ta’avati (“The Hearts Desire”), a piyyuṭ by Yehudah haLevi (early 12th c.) rhyming translation by Alice Lucas (1894)

A rhyming English translation of the piyyut Adonai Negdekha kol Ta’avati.

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Morning Baqashot, Yom Kippur

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12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

אָמְנָם כֵּן | Omnam Kén, by Rabbi Yom Tov of York (rhymed translation by Israel Zangwill, 1903)

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.

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Yom Kippur

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, English Jewry, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation) and Yom Tov ben Yitsḥaq de Joigny

שִׁיר הַכָּבוֹד (אַנְעִים זְמִירוֹת)‏ | Shir haKavod (An’im Zemirot), attributed to Rabbi Yehudah he-Ḥasid of Regensburg (ca. 12th c.); translation by Israel Zangwill (1904)

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.

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Yom Kippur, Musaf l'Shabbat

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12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, חסידי אשכנז Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Zangwill (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel of Regensburg

כִּי הִנֵּה כַּחֹֽמֶר | Ki Hinéh kaḤomer, a pizmon for leil Yom Kippur (translated by Elsie Davis)

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.

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Yom Kippur

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12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., כי הנה כחמר ki hineh kahomer, פיוטים piyyuṭim, פזמונים pizmonim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Elsie Davis (translation) and Unknown

כִּי הִנֵּה כַּחֹֽמֶר | Ki Hinéh Kaḥomer, rhymed translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur.

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Yom Kippur

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12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., כי הנה כחמר ki hineh kahomer, פיוטים piyyuṭim, פזמונים pizmonim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation) and Unknown

פעלד־מעסטען | Feldmesten | Measuring of the Graves, a prayer-poem by Morris Rosenfeld (before 1898)

This is the poem “פעלד־מעסטען” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 135-136. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “The Measuring of the Graves” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 46-49. A rhyming translation by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank under the title, “Measuring of the Graves” was published in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), pp. 70-71. If you know the date of the earliest publication of this prayer, please leave a comment or contact us.

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., cemetery prayers, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, Prayers as poems, rhyming translation, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Helena Frank (translation), Rose Pastor Stokes (translation), Leo Wiener (translation), Morris Rosenfeld and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." (Psalms 90:17)

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