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
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 “El Mi Migoalei,” a rahuṭah piyyut for Yom Kippur by Avraham ben Shmuel, as indicated by the acrostic signature (likely the same person as Avraham Abulafia.) Our transcription of the text follows that found in National Library of Russia, Ms. EVR II A 913. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer by Glikl bat Yehudah Leib 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. 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): An exhortation given by Ḥakham Ishak Nieto published before his translation of the Sliḥot, in Spanish with English translation by Isaac Pinto (1766). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Tkhine of the Matriarchs for Yizkor on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Yamim Tovim” by Rebbetsin Seril Rappaport is a faithful transcription of her tkhine included in “תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול” (Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul) published in Vilna, 1874, as re-published in The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A profound song invoking divine presence. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, creator within creation, חסידות Ḥasidut, הבדלות havdalot, Hebrew translation, non-dual theology, panentheism, תשובה teshuvah, Yiddish songs, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): “Vor Neïla (Schlußgebet)” 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 №46 on pp. 64-67. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №47 pp. 79-82. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №49 on pp. 82-85. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Am Versöhnungstag zu מנחה (über die Geschichte von Jona)” 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 №45 on pp. 61-64. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №46 pp. 76-78. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №48 on pp. 79-81. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Am Versöhnungstage, wenn aus der heiligen Schrift vorgelesen wird” 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 №44 on pp. 59-61. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №43 pp. 72-74. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №45 on pp. 75-77. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Am Vorabend des Versöhnungstages (כל נדרי)” 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 №43 on pp. 56-59. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №42 pp. 68-71. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №44 on pp. 71-74. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Andachtsübung über das Verhältniß der Kinder zu ihren Eltern,” a paraliturigcal Yizkor prayer for those with living parents, 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 №74 on pp. 110-112. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №75 on pp. 134-136. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №78 on pp. 139-141. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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