Hallel • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers, songs, and other individual works relevant to the penultimate course of the seder for Pesaḥ (Passover): Hallel, containing a full Hallel and the Birkat haShir (Nishmat, etc.).
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For an archive of prayers, song, and other supplemental material specific to other Pesaḥ seder courses, find:

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נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי | Nishmat Kol Ḥai, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)

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Hallel, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov

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Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, drought conditions, thanksgiving, rainfall, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, interpretive translation, Late Antiquity, Crowning, Amoraic prayers

This “praying translation” of the piyyut Nishmat Kol Ḥai is included in Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Sabbath Supplement to his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi ~ As I Can Say It (for Praying in the Vernacular) (2009). The translation includes several prayers that follow the piyyut: Ha-El B’ta’atsumot Uzekha, and Shoḥen Ad. . . .

וּבְמַקְהֲלוֹת | uv’Maqhalōt, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Hallel

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acrostic, heikhalot literature, Latin translation, ובמקהלות uv'Maqhalot

The text of the short prayer uv’Maqhalōt in Hebrew with a Latin translation. . . .

נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי | Nishmat Kol Ḥai, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Hallel, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov

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נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, Late Antiquity, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, Latin translation

The text of the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai in Hebrew with a Latin translation . . .

הָאֵל בְּתַעֲצֻמוֹת עֻזֶּךָ | ha-El b’Taatsumōt Uzekha, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Hallel

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Latin translation, האל בתעצימות ha-El b'taatsumōt

The text of the short prayer ha-El b’Taatsumōt Uzekha in Hebrew with a Latin translation. . . .

שׁוֹכֵן עַד | Shokhen Âd, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Hallel

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האל בתעצימות ha-El b'taatsumōt, in the merit of Yitsḥaq, acrostic, Latin translation

The text of the short prayer Shokhen Ad in Hebrew with a Latin translation. . . .

יִשְׁתַּבַּח שִׁמְךָ | Yishtabaḥ Shimkha, in its Latin translation by Johann Stephan Rittangel (1644)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Hallel, Psukei D'zimrah/Zemirot

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Closing Prayers, Closers, devotional interpretation, פסוקי דזמרה pesuqei dezimrah, ישתבח Yishtabaḥ, שבח praise, interpretive translation, פיוטים piyyutim

The text of the prayer Yishtabaḥ Shimkha, in Hebrew with a Latin translation . . .

נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Nishmat Kol Ḥai, arranged by Aharon Varady

Contributor(s):

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

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Hallel, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov

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Amoraic prayers, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, drought conditions, thanksgiving, rainfall, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, Late Antiquity, Crowning

The text of the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai in Hebrew with English translation. . . .