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תחנה פאר די ליכט מאכין אום ערב יום כפור | Tkhine for Candlemaking on Erev Yom Kippur, by Sarah bat Tovim (ca. early 18th c.)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Sarah bat Tovim

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Yom Kippur

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18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, memento mori, erev yom kippur, feldmesten, תחינות tkhines, ḳever mesten, candles, ימים נוראים yamim noraim, תחינות teḥinot, 55th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers

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. . . .

A Prayer for Divine Mercy, by Glikl of Hameln from her memoirs (ca. early 18th c.)

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Chava Turniansky (transcription), Sara Friedman (translation) and Glikl of Hameln

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

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Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, עלינו Aleinu, תחינות tkhines, 55th century A.M.

This prayer by Glikl of Hameln was made from the text transcribed and published in Chava Turniansky’s critical edition, Glikl: Memoirs (1691-1719) (Shazar 2006), pp. 242-244, and Sara Friedman’s English translation of that edition, edited by Turniansky (Brandeis University Press 2019), p. 144. . . .

אֲדוֹן הַסְּלִיחוֹת | Adon haSeliḥot (Lord of Forgiveness), a pizmon for Seliḥot and Yom Kippur

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Masorti Movement in Israel and Unknown Author(s)

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Yom Kippur

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, פזמונים pizmonim, אדון הסליחות Adon haSeliḥot, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, סליחות seliḥot, acrostic, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

A pizmon in the nusaḥ hasepharadim recited at Seliḥot during the monh of Elul and Yom Kippur. . . .

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

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

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Yom Kippur, Morning Baqashot

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

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

סליחה מר׳ יצחק אבן גיאת | Seliḥah by Yitsḥaq ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyat (ca. 11th century) translated by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l

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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi

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Yom Kippur

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Granadan Jewry, Kingdom of Granada, Song of Songs, interpretive translation, devotional interpretation, סליחות seliḥot, eros, פיוטים piyyutim, 11th century C.E., The Lovers, 49th century A.M.

The following love poem is one of the Selihot recited between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Ibn Gayat (1038 – 1089) was not timid about using the most intimate symbols in asking God to become reconciled with us. . . .

הַיּוֹם תְּאַמְּצֵנוּ | haYom T’amtseinu, a piyyut for the end of musaf on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

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Musaf Yom Kippur, פיוטים piyyutim, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, היום תאמצנו Hayom T'amtsenu, alphabetic mesostic

The full text of the alphabetic mesostic piyyut, Hayom, according to the Italian nusaḥ. . . .

💬 מזמור לבן סירא על זכות אבותינו (פרקים מד-נ)‏ | Paean of Ben Sira on the Merit of the Ancestors (ch. 44-50), vocalized and cantillated with the Poetic Masoretic System by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira

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Second Temple Period, Yom Kippur

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Jews of Alexandria, Cairo Geniza, Mar'eh Kohen, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus

The poem lauding the ancestors from Chapters 44 to 50 of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) is considered by many scholars to be the original influence for the Yom Kippur Avodah service, and the paean to Shimon the Righteous bears a striking similarity to the beloved piyyut “Mar’eh Khohen.” This passage from Ben Sira, the great paean on the merit of the ancestors, takes the Hebrew text of one of the Cairo Geniza manuscripts — Bodleian MS Heb e62 — and versifies it according to the standard Septuagintal text, along with vocalization and cantillation per the standard Masoretic EMe”T system for poetic books. It could be read on Yom Kippur for the avodah service, or just studied as a fascinating piece of Jewish history. . . .