This is the philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, by Daniel ben Judah Dayyan. Yigdal means “Magnify [O Living God]” and is based on the 13 Articles of Faith formulated by Maimonides (1135-1204). Daniel ben Judah spent eight years improving his piyyut, completing Yigdal in 1404. This was not the only metrical presentment of the 13 Articles of Faith; but it has outlived all others, whether in Hebrew or in the vernacular. The rhymed English translation by Jacob Waley (1818-1873) was published posthumously by his daughter, Julia Matilda Cohen, in The children’s Psalm-book, a selection of Psalms with explanatory comments, together with a prayer-book for home use in Jewish families (1907), pp. 300-303. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 19th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., 57th century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal

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Jacob Waley, Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah (rhyming translation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

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Alice Lucas (translation), Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah (trans. Israel Zangwill, 1904)

This is the philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, by Daniel ben Judah Dayyan. Yigdal means “Magnify [O Living God]” and is based on the 13 Articles of Faith formulated by Maimonides (1135-1204). Daniel ben Judah spent eight years improving his piyyut, completing Yigdal in 1404. This was not the only metrical presentment of the 13 Articles of Faith; but it has outlived all others, whether in Hebrew or in the vernacular. The English translation here by Israel Zangwill was transcribed from Arthur Davis & Herbert Adler’s מַחֲזוֹר עֲבֹדַת אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד: עֲבֹדַת חַג הַכִּפּוּרִים Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim Part II: Morning Service (1904), p. 2. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 19th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., 57th century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal

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Israel Zangwill (translation), Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

יִגְדַּל (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah (rhyming translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1937)

The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

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David de Sola Pool, Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah (rhyming translation by Ben Zion Bokser, 1957)

The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

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Ben-Zion Bokser, Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah (German translation by Chajm Guski)

The doxological piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with a German translation. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, German translation, פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

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Chajm Guski (German translation) and Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan

יִגְדַּל מֻתְקָן | Yigdal (adapted), by Havurat Shalom (2014/2022)

This adaptation of Yigdal, appears in מַחְזוֹר בִּרְכַּת שָׁלוֹם Maḥzor Birkat Shalom, an egalitarian Rosh haShanah & Yom Kippur maḥzor (Havurat Shalom 2014/2022), at the end of the Maariv service, pp. 62-63. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal

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the Ḥavurat Shalom Siddur Project and Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan

יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah (translation by Rabbi Dr. Laura Duhan-Kaplan)

The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with a creative English translation. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, interpretive translation, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot

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Laura Duhan-Kaplan, Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📄 מעריב ליל שבת לפי נוסח פרס העתיק | Maariv for the Sabbath Evening according to the Ancient Persian Rite

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. . . .

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Arvit l'Shabbat, Shabbat Siddurim

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17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., English Translation, Nusaḥ Farsi, reconstructed text

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown

Heil’ge Sabbath-Ruhe | Holy Sabbath Rest — from the Hamburg Temple Hymnal (1833)

“Heil’ge Sabbath-Ruhe” is a hymn selected by Rabbi Gotthold Salomon, Immanuel Wohlwill, and Maimon Fraenkel for inclusion in the Hamburg Temple Hymnal (1833), hymn №342, p. 415. The first, fourth, and sixth stanzas were translated by Rabbi James Koppel Gutheim and published as “Der Sabbath (The Sabbath)” in his Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871) as hymn №1, pp. 2-3. The hymn also appears as the preface to Gotthold Salomon’s sermon “Der Segen des Sabbathtages” in Der berg des Herrn: Kanzel-vorträge über den Decalog (1846), p. 32 lending me to think that the hymn was at the very least appreciated by him, and possibly also written by him. –Aharon Varady . . .

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Classical Reform, German Reform Movement, hymns, Reform Jewry

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James Koppel Gutheim, Gotthold Salomon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Friday Night, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Prayer for Friday night” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 169-170. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 75-76. The UK edition also includes the detail that this prayer was written when the family lived in Teignmouth, Devon (1828-1840). . . .

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

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Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Sabbath Eve, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Prayer for the Sabbath Eve” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in Essays and Miscellanies (1853), in the section “Sacred Communings,” pp. 230-233. In the UK edition of Sacred Communings (1853) the prayer appears with small variations of spelling and punctuation on pages 138-140. . . .

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

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Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Mogen owaus | Magen Avot, a paraliturgical adaptation by Lise Tarlau (1907)

This paraliturgical reflection of the prayer “Magen Avot” by Lise Tarlau (“Mogen owaus”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 79. . . .

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Arvit l'Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, מגן אבות magen avot, paraliturgical magen avot, paraliturgical reflections

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Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer for Protection from Oppression and Persecution (CCAR 1924)

This is an untitled prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924), pp. 68-69, as a reading between the Shema and the Amidah. As a prayer for protection it fits as a paraliturgical haskivenu, and in New York City, it makes sense in the context of the terrifying news of mass-murder, rape, and genocide being reported from Ukraine at the time. (Find Nokhem Shtif’s “פּאָגראָמען אין אוקראַיִנע : די צײַט פֿון דער פֿרײַװיליקער אַרמײ (The Pogroms in Ukraine: the Period of the Volunteer Army)” (1923) offered in Yiddish and in English translation at In Geveb.) The Ukrainian context of this prayer is further underscored in that the prayer is not found in the 1918 revised Union Prayer Book, but in the later 1924 edition. It may have been unique to Congregation Emanu-El in New York City, who compiled this version of the Union Prayer Book for radio listeners joining their service. . . .

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Congregation & Community, Arvit l'Shabbat, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionist, English vernacular prayer, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, paraliturgical hashkivenu, Pogroms in Ukraine 1918-1924, prayers following pogroms, protection

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Unknown, Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תִּגְדַּל | Tigdal, by Rabbi Oded Mazor

A companion to the classic piyyut, Yigdal. . . .

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Morning Baqashot, Arvit l'Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, פיוטים piyyuṭim, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal

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Yehudah B. Cohn (translation) and Oded Mazor

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