Ḳadesh • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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).
Click here to contribute a work or a transcription and translation of a historical work that you have prepared for Ḳadesh in the Seder Pesaḥ.
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For a list of Haggadot for the Seder Pesaḥ, go here.
For an archive of prayers, song, and other supplemental material specific to other Pesaḥ seder courses, find:

• Magid

• Shulhan Orekh

• Barekh

• Hallel

• Nirtsah

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady and Havayah community (Cincinnati)

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

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58th century A.M., indigenous land acknowledgement, post-colonial, petiḥah, 21st century C.E., Openers

An indigenous land acknowledgement for Jewish communities in Cincinnati, Ohio. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Aurora Mendelsohn

Categories:

Ḳadesh, Canada

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

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Ḳadesh

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

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. . . .

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.)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

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Ḳadesh

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

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. . . .