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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes —⟶ 🌞︎ Prayers for the Sun, Weekdays, Shabbat, and Season —⟶ Everyday —⟶ Nighttime —⟶ Bedtime Shema —⟶ Page 2 🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Evening Shema 📁 Ḥatsot :: (Next Category) 🡆 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? Adon Olam is a piyyut that became popular in the 15th century and is often attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) and less often to Sherira Gaon (900-1001), or his son, Hai ben Sherira Gaon (939-1038). The variation of the piyyut appearing here is the 10 line version familiar to Ashkenazi congregations. (There are also twelve, fifteen, and sixteen line variants found in Sepharadi siddurim.) The rhyming translation here by Jessie Ethel Sampter was transcribed from Joseph Friedlander and George Alexander Kohut’s The standard book of Jewish verse (1917), p. 394. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 20th century C.E., 49th century A.M., 57th century A.M., אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation Contributor(s): Rabbi Dr. Mojżesz Schorr’s translation of Adon Olam in Polish was first printed on pages 8-9 of Modlitewnik na wszystkie dni w roku oraz modlitwę za Rzeczpospolitą ułożoną przez prof. Schorra (1936). . . . The paraliturgical adaptation and expansion of “Adaun Aulom” 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 93-94. I have set the stanzas or verses from Adon Olam in their original Hebrew side-by-side with Lise Tarlau’s adapted text (according to the arrangement that seems closest to me) so that their proximity may illuminate her inspiration. . . . A rhyming translation in English to the popular piyyut, Adon Olam. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), Nusaḥ Sefaradi, Openers, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation Contributor(s): This is Artur Carlos de Barros Bastos’s Portuguese translation of Adon Olam from his prayer-pamphlet, Oração Matinal de Shabbath (1939), p. 52-53. I have set the translation side-by-side with the Hebrew text from which it was derived. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Portuguese translation Contributor(s): The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), Openers, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Dr. David Prato’s Italian translation of Adon Olam from his bilingual Hebrew-Italian everyday siddur, Tefilah l’David: Preghiere di Rito Italiano (1949), p. 272-275. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, Italian translation, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), Openers, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive “praying translation” of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), interpretive translation, Openers, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ for the piyyut “Adon Olam,” is found on page 73 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., אדון עולם Adon Olam, Chinese translation, cosmological, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): The piyyut, Adon Olam, in its expanded fifteen line variation, in Hebrew with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., אדון עולם Adon Olam, cosmological, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, Openers, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Rabbi Yitsḥak Luria’s prayer “Hareni Moḥel” (I hereby forgive) in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with a transcription of the vocalized text of the prayer. The prayer by the ARI z”l was first published in Ḥayim Vital’s Pri Ets Ḥayyim, Shaar Kriyat Shema al Hamitah, Pereq 2 (פרי עץ חיים, שער קריאת שמע שעל המיטה, פרק ב), and based on the statement of Reish Lakish in the Bavli Pesachim 66b and the practice of Mar Zutra attested in the Bavli Megillah 28a . . . “Abend⸗gebet [№1] (In Bezug auf das obige Gebet.)” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №69 on pp. 101-102. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №71 on pp. 122-125-127 the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №74 on pp. 130-132. . . . “Desgleichen [Abend⸗gebet №3]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №71 on pp. 104-105. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №72 on pp. 129-130. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №76 on pp. 134-135. . . . “Morgen⸗ und Abendgebet” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №65 on pp. 93-95. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №67 on pp. 116-118. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №70 on pp. 121-123. . . . “Desgleichen [Abend⸗gebet №2]” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №70 on pp. 102-104. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №72 on pp. 127-129. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №75 on pp. 132-134. . . . “Prayer before retiring to rest” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 202-203. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 91-92. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Self-Examination for Every Night” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings” (1852), pp. 165-168. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, מוסר mussar, self-reflection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s): “Self-examination” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings (1853), pp. 97-98. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, מוסר mussar, self-reflection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, תשובה teshuvah, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah Contributor(s):
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אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם | Adon Olam: A Mystical Interpretation, by Rabbi Dr. Laura Duhan Kaplan (2018)
“Adon Olam: A Mystical Interpretation” by Laura Duhan Kaplan, was created for a music and spoken word performance at Limmud Vancouver, 2018. It was first published in The Infinity Inside: Jewish Spiritual Practice Through A Multi-Faith Lens (Boulder: Albion Andalus, 2019). This is the full original version. A much abridged version (edited by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat) appears in Renew Our Hearts: A Siddur for Shabbat Day (Bayit Ben Yehuda Press, 2023). . . .