This is an archive containing the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-19) and resources related to it. The song is also often referred to by its Hebrew incipit, "Az Yashir..."
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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes —⟶ 🌞︎ Prayers for the Sun, Weekdays, Shabbat, and Season —⟶ Everyday —⟶ Daytime —⟶ ◆ Psuqei d'Zimrah/Zemirot —⟶ Shirat ha-Yam 🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Barukh Hashem l’Olam 📁 Yishtabaḥ Shimkha :: (Next Category) 🡆 Shirat ha-YamThis is an archive containing the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-19) and resources related to it. The song is also often referred to by its Hebrew incipit, "Az Yashir..." Filter resources by Name Moshe ben Maimon | Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi | Alice Montefiore Lucas | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer | the Mesorah (TaNaKh) | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) Filter resources by Tag Acrostic signature | phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation | Atah Hu | אז ישיר Az Yashir | ברית brit | brit milah | circumcision | Classical Antiquity | conflicting messages | Dead Sea Scrolls | Devorah | devotional interpretation | English vernacular prayer | Hannah | interpretive translation | Jewish Women's Prayers | Life of David HaMelekh | Miriam | Mosheh Rabbenu | Neḥemyah | Nusaḥ Ashkenaz | פסוקי דזמרה pesuqei dezimrah | פיוטים piyyuṭim | Prayers as poems | קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf | גאולה geūlah (redemption) | rhyming translation | safe passage | Second Temple Period | פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ | שבת שירה shabbat shirah | שירת הים Shirat haYam | Song of Songs | Song of the Sea | symplegades | the Rainbow | traveler | Yehoshua (Joshua) | Yom Vayosha | זמירות zemirot | 12th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 50th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category Art & Craft | Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Pesaḥ Readings | Parashat b'Shalaḥ | 7th Day of Pesaḥ | Sefer Shemot (Exodus) | Travel Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Resources filtered by TAG: “שירת הים Shirat haYam” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? According to Rabbinic tradition, the 21st of Nissan is the day in the Jewish calendar on which Pharaoh’s army was drowned in the Sea of Reeds, and the redeemed children of Yisrael sang the Song of the Sea, the (Shirat Hayam, Exodus 15:1-19). The song, as included in the the morning prayers, comprises one of the most ancient text in Jewish liturgy. The 21st of Nissan corresponds to the 7th day of Passover, and the recitation of the Shirat HaYam is part of the daily Torah Reading. Rabbi Hillel Ḥayim Yisraeli-Lavery shares a performance of a melody he learned for the Shirat Hayam from צוף דבש Tzuf Devash, a Moroccan synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. If there is something about this tune that strikes one as particularly celebratory, it might be because the relationship between G!d and the Jewish people is traditionally described as a marriage consummated with the Covenant at Mt. Sinai. The passage of Bnei Yisrael through the Sea of Reeds towards Mt. Sinai thus begins a bridal march commencing in the theophany at Mt. Sinai, 42 days later. Categories: Tags: אז ישיר Az Yashir, conflicting messages, קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf, safe passage, שירת הים Shirat haYam, Song of the Sea, symplegades, Yom Vayosha Contributor(s): According to Isaac Seligman Baer’s famed Seder Avodat Yisrael, one of the first scholarly siddurim critical editions ever published, there was a custom that on the day of a circumcision, the P’sukei d-Zimra reading of Shirat haYam along with a portion of its introduction would be recited aloud as a call and response by the mohel (circumcizer) and sandaḳ (godfather). Baer’s division of the verses (from Seder Avodat Yisrael, pp. 72-74) is included here, along with a new translation. Categories: Tags: Atah Hu, אז ישיר Az Yashir, ברית brit, brit milah, circumcision, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, שירת הים Shirat haYam Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of נחמיה ט׃ו-י (Neḥemyah 9:6-10) in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). A medieval manuscript illustration of the aggadah that the Yam Suf was split in 12 discrete channels, one for each tribe, as reflected above by a 12-color rainbow Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., אז ישיר Az Yashir, קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf, safe passage, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, שבת שירה shabbat shirah, שירת הים Shirat haYam, Song of the Sea, the Rainbow Contributor(s):
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