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This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the festival of Simḥat Torah, celebrated on the same day as Shemini Atseret in Erets Yisrael and on the second festival day of Shemini Atseret outside of Erets Yisrael.

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אֲשֶׁר בִּגְלַל אָבוֹת בָּנִים גִּדֵּל | Asher Biglal Avot Banim Gidel — an archaic piyyuṭ on Mosheh’s Death for Simḥat Torah

This piyyut of unknown authorship is certainly ancient, showing the lack of a rhyme scheme characteristic of the REALLY old piyyutim (see also Aleinu or El Adon). It is still found in some Ashkenazi and Teman maḥzorim, with many different mostly minor variants (which have been combined together somewhat eclectically into one text here). It is presented here along with an English translation attempting to preserve the Hebrew acrostic. Originally it was recited before the Ashrei leading into musaf, but perhaps for those who follow Ashkenazi customs a more appropriate location would be as an introduction to the Yizkor service on Shmini ‘Atzeret — which for those who don’t keep second-day yontef is the same day. It could also be adapted as part of the liturgy for the seventh of Adar, although the final verse (the old Western rite berakha for finishing a full Torah cycle) would have to be elided.

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Simḥat Torah, Shiv'ah b'Adar

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phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, mid-first millennium CE, Mosheh Rabbenu, mourning, פיוטים piyyuṭim

Contributor(s):

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

אֲמַר קִירִיס לְמֹשֶׁה | Amar Kiris l-Mosheh, a lamentation on the death of Mosheh (SYAP 40, ca. 7th c.)

Amar Kiris l-Moshe, is a midrashic narrative of Moshe going to Adam to ask why he cursed humanity with death. It’s been translated preserving the acrostic and monorhyme scheme. Taken from Sokoloff and Yahalom’s “Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity,” it is presented here vocalized with an original translation.

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Simḥat Torah, Shiv'ah b'Adar

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45th century A.M., 7th century C.E., acrostic, phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, Aramaic, Mosheh Rabbenu, mourning, Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael, פיוטים piyyuṭim, קינות Ḳinōt

Contributor(s):

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

אֲזַלַת בְּכִיתָא | Azalat Bekhita, a lamentation on the death of Mosheh (SYAP 41, ca. 7th c.)

Azalat Bekhita, is probably incomplete, extending only to ḥeth in known manuscripts. It features multiple people, places, and things important in Moshe’s life taking turns to eulogize him. It’s been translated preserving the acrostic and monorhyme scheme. Taken from Sokoloff and Yahalom’s Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity (2018), it is presented here vocalized with an original translation.

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Simḥat Torah, Shiv'ah b'Adar

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Contributor(s):

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

אַדִּיר לֹא יָנוּם | Adir Lo Yanum — a Sefaradi piyyuṭ for weddings and Torah-reading days

According to Joseph Judah Chorny’s On the Caucasian Jews, this acrostic piyyuṭ was customarily used as an epithalion before a wedding. He writes, “Before morning light, the bride is led to the groom’s house accompanied by many women and men, all carrying lit wax candles in their hands, and singing this song along the way.” Variants of this piyyut are found throughout the greater Sephardic world, generally in an abbreviated and slightly altered form. In Syria it is sung during the haqafot for Simḥat Torah, while in Livorno Sephardic practice (and subsequently in most Eastern Sephardic maḥzorim) it is a Shavu’ot piyyut.

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Shavuot, Engagements & Weddings, Simḥat Torah, Parashat Yitro

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phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, anti-soporific, epithalamion, Kavkazi Jewry, פיוטים piyyuṭim, stimulant, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

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

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.

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Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim, Shavuot, Simḥat Torah

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

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown (translation), Unknown, 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.”

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Shavuot, Seudat Leil Shabbat, Simḥat Torah

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

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אַפִּין בְּאַפִּין | Apin b-Apin — an original Aramaic “Meturgeman piyyuṭ” in honor of Mosheh Rabbeinu for Simḥat Torah by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

An original Aramaic-language “meturgeman piyyut” for Simḥat Torah and the reading of v-Zot haBerakha. I’m working on creating a seder meturgeman liturgy, akin to those for day 7 of Pesaḥ and for Shavuot, to be recited on Simḥat Torah. Mostly incorporating older Aramaic poems, I’ve also decided to write some originals myself. This is one of them, in praise of Moshe, to be recited after Deut. 34:10.

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Simḥat Torah, Shiv'ah b'Adar

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Aramaic, Mosheh Rabbenu, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Simḥat Torah, תרגום targum

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תַּרְגּֽוּמָא דְּיוֹמֵי | Targuma d-Yomei — an original Aramaic “Meturgeman piyyuṭ” for the Bereshit reading of Simḥat Torah by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

An original Aramaic-language “meturgeman piyyut” for Simḥat Torah and the reading of Bereshit. I’m working on creating a seder meturgeman liturgy, akin to those for day 7 of Pesaḥ and for Shavuot, to be recited on Simḥat Torah. Mostly incorporating older Aramaic poems, I’ve also decided to write some originals myself. This is one of them, a reverse acrostic woven into the recitation of Genesis 1.

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Simḥat Torah

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Aramaic, hymns of creation, פיוטים piyyuṭim, פרשת בראשית parashat Bereshit, תרגום targum

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

אָתִין תַקִּיפִין | Atin Taqifin — an original Aramaic “Meturgeman piyyuṭ” in honor of Mosheh Rabbeinu for Simḥat Torah by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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Simḥat Torah, Shiv'ah b'Adar

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acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Aramaic, אתבש atbash, Mosheh Rabbenu, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Simḥat Torah, תרגום targum

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

🆕 אַף־עַל־גַב דַּאֲנָא | Af Al Gav Da-ana — an original Aramaic “Meturgeman piyyuṭ” for Simḥat Torah by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

An original Aramaic-language “meturgeman piyyut” for Simḥat Torah. I’m working on creating a seder meturgeman liturgy, akin to those for day 7 of Pesaḥ and for Shavuot, to be recited on Simḥat Torah. Mostly incorporating older Aramaic poems, I’ve also decided to write some originals myself. This piyyut, written in the structure of the famous Aqdamut Milin reshut still recited on Shavuot, is meant to be inserted before the translation of the first verse of the first aliyah on Simḥat Torah. It discusses the halakhic status and history of Shmini Atzeret, as well as the final blessing and death of Moses.

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Shemini Atseret, Simḥat Torah

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, Aramaic, Mosheh Rabbenu, פיוטים piyyuṭim, תרגום targum

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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