The Amidah for the Shabbat Shaḥarit service in Reb Zalman’s devotional English adaptation, set side-by-side with the corresponding Hebrew liturgy. . . .
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Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Shared on כ׳ באב ה׳תשפ״א (2021-07-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags:  21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, devotional interpretation
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Psychopomp, הבדלות havdalot, Seraḥ bat Asher 
Some communities have a practice of singing a song about Miriam alongside the well-known Havdalah song about Elijah the Prophet. But Miriam isn’t really a parallel to Elijah — she’s a parallel to Moshe and Aaron. When we’re talking about distaff counterparts to Elijah the clearest example is Seraḥ bat Asher. Seraḥ, the daughter of Asher, is mentioned only a handful of times in the Tanakh, but is given great significance in the midrash. Like Elijah, she is said to have never died but entered Paradise alive, and comes around to the rabbis to give advice or teachings. This song, which includes several references to midrashim about Seraḥ, is meant to be sung to any traditional tune of “Eliyahu haNavi.” It is dedicated to Ḥazzan Joanna Selznick Dulkin (shlit”a), who introduced me to the legends of Seraḥ bat Asher. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Amitai Ne'eman
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Tags: 20th century C.E., eros, 58th century A.M., ישראל Yisrael 
The popular Israeli song from the 1950s. . . . 
Contributor(s): Sara Lapidot (translation) and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
Shared on ט׳ בתמוז ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Baqashot, Se'udah Shlishit
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Divine name acrostic 
The popular piyyut, Yedid Nefesh, in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Sara Lapidot (translation) and Dunash ben Labrat haLevi
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 10th century C.E., 48th century A.M. 
The popular piyyut, D’ror Yiqra, in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
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Tags: 20th century C.E., eco-conscious, kindling, North America, candle lighting, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid 
“Between the Fires: A Prayer for lighting Candles of Commitment” was composed by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, drawing on traditional midrash about the danger of a Flood of Fire, and the passage from Malachi. . . . 
Contributor(s): Chaya Kaplan-Lester
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Tags: Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer 
Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: acrostic, labyrinth, cyclical, barley, wheat, first fruits, anxiety, Psalms 67, Raḥav, shalmah, a red ribbon, walled cities, captives, אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic 
Psalm 67 is a priestly blessing for all the peoples of the earth to be sustained by the earth’s harvest (yevulah), and it is a petition that all humanity recognize the divine nature (Elohim) illuminating the world. Composed of seven verses, the psalm is often visually depicted as a seven branched menorah. There are 49 words in the entire psalm, and in the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l there is one word for each day of the Sefirat haOmer. Similarly, the fifth verse has 49 letters and each letter can be used as a focal point for meditating on the meaning of the day in its week in the journey to Shavuot, the festival of weeks (the culmination of the barley harvest), and the festival of oaths (shevuot) in celebration of receiving the Torah. Many of the themes of Psalm 67 are repeated in the prayer Ana b’Koaḥ, which also has 49 words, and which are also used to focus on the meaning of each day on the cyclical and labyrinthine journey towards Shavuot. . . . 
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
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Tags: שבת shabbat, Psalms 92, Saturday 
Psalms 92, in Hebrew with an abridged translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E., fundamental principles of rabbinic judaism, Mishnaic literature 
Chapter 1 of Pirqei Avot (Fundamental Principles [of Rabbinic Judaism]) with cantillation and English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Lucas (translation) and Yitsḥak Luria
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, rhyming translation, paraliturgical birkat hamazon, יום זה לישראל Yom Zeh l'Yisrael 
An abridged rhymed translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Lucas (translation) and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi
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A rhymed translation of the piyyut sung following the Havdallah ritual. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Brodie and Yisrael Najara
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, יה רבון Yah Ribon 
The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and Yisrael Najara
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, יה רבון Yah Ribon
The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alice Lucas (translation)
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam 
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Ben-Zion Bokser
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Maurice Farbridge, Louis Ginzberg and Jacob Kohn
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The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Morris Silverman
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The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Marcus Jastrow (translation), Benjamin Szold and Shlomo ibn Gabirol
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, אדון עולם Adon Olam
An English translation of an abridged arrangement of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . . Shared on ח׳ באייר ה׳תשע״ט (2019-05-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150)
Tags: הלל hallel, Psalms 136 Psalms 136, translated into English by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Yeshayahu ben Amōts
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Tags: כבוד kavod, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., South Jerusalem, Kehilat Kol HaNeshama 
Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman introduced the tradition of reading these verses from Isaiah during the month of Kislev through the end of Ḥanukkah in his Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev of Kehillat Kol HaNeshamah (R’ Levi Weiman-Kelman, R’ Ma’ayan Turner, and Shaul Vardi, 2007). The translation provided here was adapted from the one made by Shaul Vardi in Siddur Ha’Avodah Shebalev. –Aharon Varady. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yaacov Maoz (Aramaic translation)
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, prophylactic, apotropaic prayers of protection, Aramaic translation, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Suret) 
The popular piyyut for welcoming the Shabbat, in Hebrew with translations in Assyrian-Aramaic and English. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yonah Bromberg Gaber
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Tags: Parents blessing children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers for Children, genderqueer, nonbinary, birkat yeladim 
This formulation of the Birkat Yeladim (Blessing of the Children) maintains a connection with tradition and serves to degender the blessing by calling upon quoted, mixed gender texts which have merit for children of any gender. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
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Tags: Nusaḥ Farsi, English Translation, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., reconstructed text 
This is a transcript and translation of the Maariv service for Shabbat evening in the Old Persian rite, as recorded in MS Adler 23 ENA (https://hebrewbooks.org/20923) in the JTS Library. The Old Persian rite shows some fascinating unique linguistic features. The first thing that immediately strikes one is its tendency towards poetic extensions and doublings, even in texts (such as the Avot blessing) where most other rites are almost completely uniform. It also shows some nonstandard vocalizations that appear to be influenced by the Babylonian system of vocalization. In modern Persian communities the standard rite is a variation of the Sephardic rite used throught the Mizraḥi world, but this older rite with its unique facets deserves to be preserved as well. This is part 1 of a planned series of transcripts and translations from MS Adler 23 ENA. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oded Mazor
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Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Amidah, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A short amidah for the Friday evening service for Shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oded Mazor
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A prayer for focusing one’s mind and intention during the separation of dough in the preparation of halah before Shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Oded Mazor
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., יגדל yigdal, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A companion to the classic piyyut, Yigdal. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
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Tags: interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., paraliturgical k'gavna 
A paraliturgical translation of “k’Gavna” — a portion of the Zohar on parashat Terumah read before Ma’ariv in the ḥassidic-sefardic nusaḥ. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
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Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers 
A prayer reflecting on the meaning of the Sabbath day. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
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Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, English vernacular prayer 
A prayer for the Sabbath Day. . . . Shared on כ״ד בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-20) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Se'udat Yom Shabbat
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, libi uv'sari An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Nina Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Shared on ט״ו בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Taḥanun, Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat
Tags: alienation, 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., dveykut, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka 
A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . . 
Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation) and Salomone Rossi
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Acrostic signature, pizmonim 
A zemer for shabbat, with English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation) and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Angelic Protection, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, הבדלות havdalot, המבדיל בין קדש לחל Hamavdil Bein Ḳodesh l'Ḥol
The short form of the piyyut for motsei shabbat, with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation) and Shimon ibn Lavi
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, 55th century A.M., 16th century C.E., pizmonim, shimon ben yoḥai, Needing Source Images 
A pizmon and table song sung on Shabbat and on Lag ba-Omer with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, eros, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, שיר נשירים shir hashirim 
A piyyut presenting a dialogue between a couple and Hashem. . . . 
Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation) and Menaḥem ibn Saruq
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Acrostic signature, Sabbath Queen, 10th century C.E., 48th century A.M., feast of the righteous 
The popular table song for Shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation) and Asher Mizrahi
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Tags: 20th century C.E., משיח Moshiaḥ, זמירות zemirot, פיוטים piyyutim, 57th century A.M., ציון Tsiyon 
The popular table song calling for the redemption of the Messianic age in Tsiyon. . . . 
Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation) and Barukh ben Shmuel of Mainz
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, פיוטים piyyutim, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, Needing Source Images 
A piyyut and table song for Shabbat from 13th century Ashkenaz. . . . 
Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation) and Mosheh ha-Levi
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Tags: 19th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M., Needing Source Images 
A piyyut and table song for Shabbat by the chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Eugene Kohn
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Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, cosmic religion, is it Sikh or Hassidic?, universalist prayers, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka 
“Where We Can Find God,” a prayer-poem inspired by passages appearing in David Frishman’s Hebrew translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron
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Tags: 19th century C.E., candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, divine light 
A prayer on Erev Shabbat upon lighting the Shabbes Candles, in French with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Rabbi Sam Seicol and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
Shared on י״ט בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: acrostic, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Divine name acrostic 
A variation of the piyyut “Yedid Nefesh” in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Mordecai Kaplan
Shared on כ״ה בסיון ה׳תשע״ח (2018-06-07) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Early Reconstructionist, prophetic revelation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalism 
This prayer by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, first penned in his diary for 23 August 1942, was first published in The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, by Mel Scult (1990). Although the prayer was not included in Kaplan’s Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945), it was added to the loose-leaf prayerbook he kept at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism synagogue. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ד בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: acrostic, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 15th century C.E., Divine name acrostic, 52nd century A.M.
A variation of the piyyut “Yedid Nefesh” in Hebrew with English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Shlomo haLevi Al-Qabets
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Tags: שבת shabbat, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi
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Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and Yitsḥak Luria
Shared on ט״ו בשבט ה׳תשע״ז (2017-02-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat
Tags: English Translation, תחינות teḥinot, 16th century C.E., Lurianic, 54th century A.M. 
Ribon Kol Ha-Olamim is a teḥinah (supplication) for entering the Shabbat that can be found in many siddurim following after the custom of the school of Rabbi Yitsḥak Luria. In his Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem, Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum includes it, commenting as follows: “Ribon kol Ha’Olamim is attributed to Rabbi Joseph of Rashkow, Posen, who lived towards the end of the eighteenth century. The adjectives in the first paragraph are in alphabetic order.” This can’t be correct however as a copy of Ribon Kol Ha-Olamim can be seen in the siddur Tikunei Shabbat from 1614 (see below for source images). Google Books attributes Tikunei Shabbat to Rabbi Yitsḥak Luria (1534-1572), which is the attribution we have followed, although as a posthumously published work we wonder whether it might be more properly attributed to “the School of Rabbi Isaac Luria.” Please comment below if you know of another attribution. The English translation is that of Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum, with some minor changes that I have made to divine names and appelations.– Aharon Varady . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Late Antiquity, Crowning, Amoraic prayers, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, drought conditions, thanksgiving, rainfall, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai 
The text of the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin (liturgist)
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Tags: kindling, gateway, first person, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer 
Shabbat happens, If I let it. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: interpretive translation, Late Antiquity, Crowning, Amoraic prayers, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, drought conditions, thanksgiving, rainfall, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai
This “praying translation” of the piyyut Nishmat Kol Ḥai is included in Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Sabbath Supplement to his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi ~ As I Can Say It (for Praying in the Vernacular) (2009). The translation includes several prayers that follow the piyyut: Ha-El B’ta’atsumot Uzekha, and Shoḥen Ad. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Israel Wolf Slotki
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Tags: acrostic, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod, שיר היחוד Shir haYiḥud
A translation of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: 19th century C.E., fire, זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M., Avraham Avinu, Ladino vernacular prayer, Ladino, Morocco, the Furnace 
The sephardic folk-song “Kuando el rey Nimrod” in Ladino with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah 
A popular piyyut for Simḥat Torah (4th hakkafah) originally composed as a piyyut for Shavuot and often referred to by its incipit, “Mipi El.” . . . 
Contributor(s): Mark X. Jacobs
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Tags: 20th century C.E., eco-conscious, North America, kiddush, 58th century A.M., Teva Learning Center 
We call to sukkat shalom, the shelter of peace, all of our various selves To rest from the contortion of social life and the demands of others. We liberate ourselves and each other from roles and titles labels and closets positions and pretendings internalized oppressions and oppressive projections hierarchies and competition. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ruth Nevo (translation) and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik
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Tags: 20th century C.E., eros, modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Queens, Mrozy, מי או מה who or what 
The poem, Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alter Abelson
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Tags: romanticism, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., mythopoesis, the River Sambatyon 
The poem “Sambatyon” (1931) by Rabbi Alter Abelson. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alter Abelson
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Tags: romanticism, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Sabbath Queen, Queens, Kohenet 
The poem “Friday Eve” by Rabbi Alter Abelson (1931). . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Tags: interpretive translation, פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive “praying translation” of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Late Antiquity, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, Latin translation, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai
The text of the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai in Hebrew with a Latin translation . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Latin translation, האל בתעצימות ha-El b'taatsumōt 
The text of the short prayer ha-El b’Taatsumōt Uzekha in Hebrew with a Latin translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: acrostic, Latin translation, האל בתעצימות ha-El b'taatsumōt, in the merit of Yitsḥaq 
The text of the short prayer Shokhen Ad in Hebrew with a Latin translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Johann Stephan Rittangel (Latin translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: acrostic, heikhalot literature, Latin translation, ובמקהלות uv'Maqhalot 
The text of the short prayer uv’Maqhalōt in Hebrew with a Latin translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Dr. Hillel Farḥi (translation) and Wikisource Contributors (proofreading)
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Tags: 20th century C.E., פיוטים piyyutim, Egypt, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, Egyptian Jewry, Needing Proofreading 
Yedid Nefesh is a piyyut composed by Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (1533-1600) commonly found in the morning baqashot of Sepharadi siddurim and as a petiḥah for Kabbalat Shabbat in many siddurim. This is a faithful transcription of Yedid Nefesh translated into Arabic from סדור פרחי سدور فرحي Siddur Farḥi (nusaḥ Sefaradi, minhag Egypt 1913, 1917) by Hillel Farḥi (1868-1940). (A copy of Siddur Farhi can be ordered from the Farḥi Foundation here.) Transcription of the Arabic was made by Wikisource contributor Avigdor24, here. Please help to proofread and improve this transcription. Join us in the digital transcription of Siddur Farḥi on Hebrew Wikisource. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, Sunday, Psalms 95
Psalms 95, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: acrostic, gender roles, Alphabetic Acrostic, Eyshet Ḥayil, gender expression, male role models 
Psalms 112 in Hebrew with English translation, arranged by Aharon Varady. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Andrew Meit and Perle Derbaremdiger (Peretz)
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Tags: eros, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., German vernacular prayer, taking dough, taking bread, baking ḥallah, חלה challah ḥallah 
A prayer upon preparing ḥallot for Shabbat. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, Monday, Psalms 96
Psalms 96 in Hebrew, with an English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Sarah bat Tovim
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Tags: kindling, תחינות tkhines, candle lighting, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, lamp lighting 
The Prayer for the mitsvot of kindling the lights of Shabbat from the Teḥinah of the Three Gates by Sarah bat Tovim (18th century). . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Sarah bat Tovim
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Tags: תחינות tkhines, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, חלה challah ḥallah 
The Prayer for the mitsvot of preparing Ḥallah from the Teḥinah of the Three Gates by Sarah bat Tovim (18th century). . . . 
Contributor(s): Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda
Shared on י׳ באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Erev Shabbat, Friday
Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, Psalm of the Day, Friday, Bohemia, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry, Sixth Day of Creation, Paraliturgical Psalms 93 
This is the prayer for Friday, a paraliturgical teḥinah opposite the Shir shel Yom (Psalm of the Day) for Friday, included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rabbi Haviva Ner-David
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Tags: water 
The following is a meditation I wrote (with the help of my friend Shira Gura, who teaches meditation and Yoga) to be used on Friday before Shabbat at the mikveh. It is based on midrashim related to Shabbat (for example, the notion that we receive an additional soul on Shabbat), as well as meanings behind mikveh in general (for example, the connection between the waters of Creation and the mikveh waters), and on some kavanot (sacred intentions) that came out of the Kabbalah and Ḥassidut movements. There is a strong tradition to write kavanot to use before immersing in the mikveh, since, as Maimonides writes in his Mishneh Torah 11:15, “If a person immerses but without buttressing him or herself [with sacred intention], it is as though he or she has not immersed at all.” . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, Tuesday, Psalms 97
Psalms 97, in Hebrew with an abridged translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair
Shared on ז׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ב (2012-01-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
Tags: Feminism, love, eros, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Eyshet Ḥayil, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael 
Peri and Alex Sinclair’s adaptation of the traditional Eishet Ḥayil, replacing a number of verses with ones selected from Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs/Canticles), Genesis, and elsewhere in Mishlei (Proverbs). . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, Wednesday, Psalms 98
Psalms 98, in Hebrew with an abridged translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Neria Haroeh (translation), Karaite Jews of America and Elyaqim haPayyetan
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Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, הבדלות havdalot 
A zemirah for havdallah by an otherwise unknown rabbinic payyetan known only by his signature acrostic. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, Thursday, Psalms 99
Psalms 99, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat
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Tags: Breath, interconnectedness, interbreathing, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai 
…if we could discard differences: human, would not be enough to thank You. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Heinrich Heine and Margaret Armour (translation)
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Tags: 19th century C.E., food, 57th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, Elysium, lycanthropy, German orientalism, German romanticism, Sardonic poetry 
“Prinzessin Sabbat” by Heinrich Heine, in Romanzero III: Hebraeische Melodien, (“Princess Shabbat,” in Romanzero III, Hebrew Melodies.), 1851 was translated into English by Margaret Armour (1860-1943), The Works of Heinrich Heine vol. 12: Romancero: Book III, Last Poems (1891). We have replaced “schalet” (unchanged in Armour’s translation) with cholent. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: שבת shabbat, theophany
Psalms 29, in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir
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Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Queens, Psalms 92, Tsfat 
A different version of the poem Lekhah Dodi according to the book Seder haYom by R. Moshe ibn Makhir of righteous blessed memory, vocalized and translated into English by Isaac Mayer. . . . 
Contributor(s): Eyal Raviv
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Tags: North America, all bodies, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, shower ritual, bathing ritual, English vernacular prayer, shabbat preparation 
This is pre-Shabbos reflection that can be done in a shower or bath. Shabbat is a time when I am less focused on my selfish desires and instead my thoughts drift to my place in the larger community and world. I find myself doing some version of this before Shabbos most weeks and am welcome for the time to reflect on truly what it is to cease from lay work and consider the work that needs to be done to make the world a better place. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ו׳ באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-07-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Erev Shabbat, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106), Friday
Tags: interpretive translation, תהלים Psalms, English Translation, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, Psalm of the Day, Friday, Psalms 93, devotional interpretation 
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of the Psalm of the Day for Friday (Psalms 93) 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 Psalm. . . .
Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s), Yudis Retig, Yocheved Retig and Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev
Shared on ב׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-07) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Motsei Shabbat
Tags: תחינות tkhines, gut vokh, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Needing Source Images
Master of all realms! You hear from all worlds. You look with love and grace upon all of your creations for whose sake you created Your world. Seize and fulfill the pure request from Your servant who comes before You after a full week, having shown her heart is full and her mood somber. The beloved Shabbes koidesh is already going away, and with our Shabbes, our rest has also disappeared. A new week comes up to meet us, against us, Master of the universe. We are people who know, just like You know, the heavy and difficult life of Your people Yisruel: their bitter mood, how difficulty and bitterly each Jew acquires his meager piece of bread through worry and heartache, the fear and hardship with which each Jew scrapes together his seemingly hopeless living. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ב בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106)
Tags: Psalms 93, the Throne
Psalms 93, in Hebrew with an abridged translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-19) — under the following terms: Categories: Erev Shabbat
Tags: Jewish Renewal, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, affirmation 
Shabbat Affirmations for erev shabbat in preparation of welcoming the shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ח׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ה (2014-11-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Erev Shabbat, Davvening, Tiqqunei Zohar
Tags: interpretive translation, תפלין tefillin, petiḥah, פתיחות Petiḥot, Opening Prayers, 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., devotional interpretation, prayers of kabbalists, פתח אליהו Pataḥ Eliyahu, תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying 
Elijah began saying: Lord of the worlds You Who are One and not just a number You are the highest of the highest most hidden of the undisclosed no thought scheme grasps You at all. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
Shared on כ׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ה (2014-11-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: interpretive translation, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Divine name acrostic 
Yedid Nefesh is a piyyut of uncertain authorship. Rabbi Elazar Moshe Azikri (1533-1600) included the piyyut in his Sefer Haḥaredim (1588). (The images below are of pages with Yedid Nefesh handwritten by Azikri.) A version of the piyyut “with noteworthy text, spelling and pointing” may be found on folio 146 (verso) of Samuel b. David b. Solomon’s Commentary On the Book of Numbers (ca. 1437 CE, see Stefan C. Reif, The Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Libraries: A Description and Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 93). Presumably, this text was added to the 15th century manuscript sometime in the 17th century after the popularization of Yedid Nefesh. The piyyut has since appeared with a number of variations in various siddurim. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ח באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106)
Tags: interpretive translation, תהלים Psalms, English Translation, Friday, Psalms 100, paraliturgical psalms 100, devotional interpretation 
This interpretation and adaptation of Psalms 100 by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .
Contributor(s): Sara Lapidot (translation) and Yisrael Najara
Shared on י״א בתמוז ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-20) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, יה רבון Yah Ribon
The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Sara Lapidot (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י׳ בתמוז ה׳תשפ״א (2021-06-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags: acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, heikhalot literature, Alphabetic Acrostic, Geonic prayers, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, יוצר אור yotser ohr, אל אדון el adon 
The piyyut, El Adon, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags: interpretive translation, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, heikhalot literature, Alphabetic Acrostic, Geonic prayers, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, יוצר אור yotser ohr, אל אדון el adon
The piyyut, El Adon, in Hebrew with an interpretive “praying translation” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom, z”l. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and David Fiensy
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תשע״ה (2015-06-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Liturgical traditions
Tags: Late Antiquity, Syria, 4th century C.E., 42nd century A.M., Greek vernacular prayer, Greek speaking Jewry 
This is a reconstruction of a sabbath liturgy for the Tefillah of the Amidah, at least in some variant of its public recitation, in Greek and preserved in an early Christian work, the Constitutiones Apostolorum (Apostolic Constitutions), a Christian work compiled around 380 CE in Syria. Several prayers derived from Jewish sources appear in the Apostolic Constitutions and they can be found grouped together and labeled “Greek” or “Hellenistic Syanagogal Works” in collections of apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Because explicitly Christian references appeared to be added onto a pre-existing text with familiar Jewish or “Old Testament” themes and references, scholars in the late 19th century were already suggesting that as many as 16 of the prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions books 7 and 8 were derived from Jewish prayers. A more modern appraisal was made by Dr. Fiensy and published in Prayers Alleged to Be Jewish (Scholars Press 1985). Based on a careful analysis of the prayers, he concludes that the only prayers which can be identified as Jewish with certainty are those found in sections 33-38 of book 7. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Yaaqov Mosheh Ḥai Altarats (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ז באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Removal of the Torah from the Ark, Zoharic prayers 
A Ladino translation of Brikh Shmei d’Marei Alma. . . . 
Contributor(s): Marcia Prager and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Shared on ח׳ בתמוז ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, the Zohar, Shabbat
Tags: shekhina, כבוד kavod, שבת ערבית shabbat arvit 
In siddurim following the nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l, the Barekhu call to prayer is immediately preceded by a passage from the Zohar, Parshat Terumah, explaining the profound significance of the Maariv service. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
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Tags: acrostic, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod, שיר היחוד Shir haYiḥud
A “praying translation” of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . .
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Unknown Author(s) and the Masoretic Text
Shared on י״ד במרחשון ה׳תשע״ה (2014-11-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
Tags: interpretive translation, זמירות zemirot, Alphabetic Acrostic, Eyshet Ḥayil, devotional interpretation
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive translation of Proverbs 31:10-31, popularly read before the first festive meal for shabbat on Friday night. . . . 
Contributor(s): Benyamim Sedaka
Shared on כ״ג בתשרי ה׳תשע״ז (2016-10-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags: Samaritan, Torah Reading, Needing Transcription, Nusaḥ haSamerim, Needing Source Images 
Benyamim’s Sedaka’s English translations of the Israelite-Samaritan “Prayer to be Read by the Eldest Reader of the Sabbath Portion” and Abraham ben Marchiv Tsedaka Hassafari’s poem to be read after reading the last portion of the Torah reading . . . Shared on כ׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106), Saturday
Tags: שבת shabbat, מזמור Mizmor, Shir, Psalms 92 An English translation of Psalms 92 set side-by-side with the Masoretic text. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Aharon ben Yaakov Perlov of Karlin
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat
Tags: זמירות zemirot, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Hassidic, hymns 
An interpretive translation of the shabbes hymn, Yah Ekhsof. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udat Yom Shabbat
Tags: interpretive translation, זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature 
An interpretive translation in English of the shabbes hymn Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . . |
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