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Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the festival of Shemini Atseret and Simḥat Torah.

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תהלים ח׳ בלשון לאדינו | Psalms 8 by David in Ladino (Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit, ca. 1852/3)

To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of Psalms 8 from תהילים או לוס סאלמוס ; טריסלאד’אד’וס דיל לשון הקדש אין לה לינגואה ספרדית (Tehillim, or the Psalms, translated from the Holy language [Hebrew] into the Sephardic language, Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit 1852/3) from a digital copy made available by the collection of Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington. Please join me in making a complete transcription of this Ladino translation of Psalms. –Aharon N. Varady . . .

Categories: Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Izmir, Ladino Translation, Needing Proofreading, Ottoman Empire, תהלים Psalms, Psalms 8, פרשת בראשית parashat Bereshit, Simḥat Torah

Contributor(s): David ben Yishai (traditional attribution), Estampado por Ǧ. Griffit and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Dwelling in the Sukkah of the Leviyatan, as taught in the name of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (ca. 13th c.)

This formula for recitation in the Sukkah at the conclusion of Sukkot (on the night of Shemini Atseret) is given in the name of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1215-1293) and found in two sources: Siman 148 of the Teshuvot of Shimshon bar Tsadoq (a/k/a the Tashbets), and Siman 71.50 of the Sefer Kol Bo. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), the Wet Season (Fall & Winter)

Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., anti-predatory, חסידי אשכנז Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, leviathan, עולם הבא Olam Haba, רשות reshut, Universal Peace

Contributor(s): Meir ben Barukh of Rothenburg, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

אֵין אַדִּיר כַּיְיָ (מִפִּי אֵל)‏ | Ayn Adir kAdonai | לָא קָאדִּר סַוָא אַלְלָה (There is none like Allah), minhag Cairo variation with a Judeo-Arabic translation

This is a variation of Mipi El in Hebrew with a Judeo-Arabic translation found in the Seder al-Tawḥid for Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, compiled by Mosheh Asher ibn Shmuel in 1887 in Alexandria. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim, Seder al-Tawḥid, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: אין אדיר Ayn Adir, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah, Judeo-Arabic, פיוטים piyyuṭim, via negativa, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown Translator(s), Unknown Author(s), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

אֵין אַדִּיר כַּיְיָ (מִפִּי אֵל)‏ | Ayn Adir kAdonai (Mipi El) :: There is none like YHVH

A popular piyyut for Simḥat Torah (4th hakkafah) originally composed as a piyyut for Shavuot and often referred to by its incipit, “Mipi El.” . . .

Categories: Shavuot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), Se'udat Leil Shabbat

Tags: אין אדיר Ayn Adir, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah, פיוטים piyyuṭim, via negativa, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תחנה אמהות | Prayer for Yizkor, from the Tkhine of the Matriarchs by Seril Rappaport (ca. 18th century)

“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: Shavuot, Mourning, Yom Kippur, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Paraliturgical yizkor, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer, יזכור yizkor

Contributor(s): Seril Rappaport and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Let Choral Songs of Gladness Flow, a hymn on Revelation by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Let choral songs of gladness flow,” by Penina Moïse, was published in 1842, and appears under the subject “Revelation” as Hymn 16 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 20-21. . . .

Categories: Shavuot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, Har Sinai, hymns, South Carolina, התורה the Torah

Contributor(s): Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Festival of Rejoicing in the Torah (שמחת תורה), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer for the Festival of Rejoicing in the Law שמחת תורה (9th Day of Tabernacles)” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 83. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Day of Solemn Assembly (שמיני עצרת), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer for the Eighth Day of Tabernacles, the Day of Solemn Assembly שמיני עצרת (8th Day of Tabernacles)” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 39. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] Am Thora-Freudenfest | [A prayer] on Simḥat Torah, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

This is Fanny Neuda’s prayer “on Simḥat Torah,” faithfully transcribed and proofread with the help of German Wikisource contributors from Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), p. 66-67. We are happy to share your translation of Neuda’s tkhines in any language. The translation provided here was made by Julia Watts Belser for Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women (ed. Dinah Berland, Schocken 2007), and set here for the first time side-by-side with Neuda’s original German. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda, Moritz Mayer (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Shmini Atseret (שמיני עצרת), by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for a woman celebrating Shmini Atseret. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Thanksgiving, a hymn by Felix Adler (1868)

“Thanksgiving” is a hymn written by Felix Adler and published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn №35, p. 69. We have tentatively dated this hymn to 1868, since another hymn by Adler (“School-hymn, no. 36”) can be found appended from another unattributed work in A Guide to Instruction in the Israelitsh Religion (Samuel Adler, trans. M. Mayer, Temple Emanu-El, 1864, 4th printing 1868). . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns, thanksgiving

Contributor(s): Felix Adler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אֲשׁוֹרֵר שִׁירָה | Ashorer Shirah, a piyyut in honor of the Torah by Ḥakham Raphael Baruch Toledano (ca. 20th c.)

A piyyut in honor of the Torah. . . .

Categories: Shavuot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Needing Source Images, התורה the Torah, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation), Raphael Barukh Toledano and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Geschem, a prayer for rain in the onset of winter by Lise Tarlau (1907)

“Geschem” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 363-365. . . .

Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), the Wet Season (Fall & Winter)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, גשם geshem, Jewish Women's Prayers, paraliturgical tefilat geshem, Prayers for Precipitation, winter

Contributor(s): Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Sustenance (Parnasah), by Rabbi Simon Glazer (1930)

A prayer for lifegiving sustenance. . . .

Categories: Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Great Depression in the United States, Jewish Women's Prayers, North American Jewry, parnasah

Contributor(s): Simon Glazer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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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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