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This is an archive of prayers, songs, and other individual works relevant to the first course of the seder for Pesaḥ (Passover): Ḳadesh, the ritual sanctification of the festival over the first cup of wine (or grape juice).

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תרומה הבדילנו | T’rumah Hivdilanu (A Gift Distinguished Us) — A Poetic Ḳiddush for the Pesaḥ Seder, according to two of its nusḥaot (ca. 9th c.)

Rav Saadia Gaon lists three additions to the Seder Pesaḥ which he considers not necessary, but acceptable. This is the first, a poetic version of the Kiddush. Interestingly enough, it is still recited in many Yemenite communities, which are in general less likely to incorporate poetic sections to their liturgy. Here it is recorded and translated into English according to two nusḥaot — that recorded in the siddur of Rav Saadia (marked in blue), and that recorded in modern Yemenite texts (marked in red). In cases where only the spelling differs rather than the meaning, the editor generally went with Rav Saadia as the older variant. . . .

Categories: Ḳadesh

Tags: 47th century A.M., 9th century C.E., Geonic prayers, קידוש ḳiddush, Needing Source Images, Yemenite Jewry

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

אֲשֶׁר בָּרָא יֵין עָסִיס | Asher Bara Yayin ‘Asis — a Poetic Extension of the Blessing over Wine for the Passover Seder (ca. 9th c.)

The following piyyut seems to have been customarily used in some Babylonian communities as an extensive replacement for the “creator of the vine-fruit” opening of the kiddush. Rav Saadia Gaon forbade it for being an alteration of the talmudic formula, but his successor Rav Hai Gaon permitted it for its cherished status. No communities today have preserved a custom of reciting it, but in 1947 Naphtali Wieder (zçl) published a text he found in the Cairo Geniza, which is replicated and translated below. Daniel Goldschmidt (zçl) suggests that it may be in it of itself a compilation of two different rites. The conjunction point is marked below with a black line. . . .

Categories: Ḳadesh

Tags: 47th century A.M., 9th century C.E., Geonic prayers, haggadah supplements, קידוש ḳiddush, Needing Source Images, Wine

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

הַכָּרָת רִבּוֹנוּת הָאָרֶץ | Indigenous Land Acknowledgement for Toronto, by Aurora Mendelsohn (2020)

An acknowledgement that the land we are conducting our religious ceremonies on is the sacred and traditional land of Indigenous people. It involves a kavvanah and study verses as well as the land acknowledgement. . . .

Categories: Ḳadesh, 🇨🇦 Canada

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, indigenous land acknowledgement, Indigenous Peoples, פרשת חיי שרה parashat Ḥayyei Sarah

Contributor(s): Aurora Mendelsohn

הַכָּרָת רִבּוֹנוּת הָאָרֶץ | Indigenous Land Acknowledgment for Cincinnati, Ohio, by Aharon Varady (Havayah community, 2021)

An indigenous land acknowledgement for Jewish communities located in the historic lands of the Shawnee and Miami people. . . .

Categories: Ḳadesh, 🇺🇸 Indigenous Peoples' Day (2nd Monday of October), 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, indigenous land acknowledgement, Indigenous Peoples, petiḥah, Openers, post-colonial

Contributor(s): Havayah community (Cincinnati) and Aharon N. Varady

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "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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