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יְדִיד נֶפֶשׁ | Yedid Nefesh, a piyyut transmitted by Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (ca. 16th c.) translated by Sara Lapidot

The popular piyyut, Yedid Nefesh, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .

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16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Divine name acrostic, פיוטים piyyuṭim, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh

Contributor(s):

Sara Lapidot (translation) and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri

לכה דודי (נוסח אחר)‏ | A different version of Lekhah Dodi found in R’ Moshe ibn Makhir’s Seder haYom (1599)

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. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Psalms 92, Queens, Tsfat

Contributor(s):

Mosheh ben Yehudah ibn Makhir and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

With Rapture I Behold the Light, a hymn for Shabbat by Gershon Lazarus (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“With Rapture I Behold the Light,” by Gershon Lazarus (1809-1869), published in 1842, appears under the subject “Sabbath” as Hymn 58 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 60. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns, Opening Prayers, paraliturgical mah tovu, South Carolina

Contributor(s):

Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Gershon Lazarus and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

He spoke and Thro’ the Gloom Profound, a hymn for Shabbat by Cordelia Moïse Cohen (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“He spoke and thro’ the gloom profound,” by Cordelia Moïse Cohen (1809-1869), first published in 1842, appears under the subject “Sabbath” as Hymn 56 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 58. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina

Contributor(s):

Cordelia Moïse Cohen, Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] Am Sabbath, by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)

A paraliturgical prayer for Shabbat, offered by Fanny Neuda from her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Saturday

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemia, Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical Psalms 92, paraliturgical teḥinot, Psalm of the Day, Saturday, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer for the Sabbath Eve, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

“A Prayer for the Sabbath Eve” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), page 17. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, West Central Girls' Club

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שַׁבָּת הַמַּלְכָּה | The Shabbat Queen, by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1903)

This translation of Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “Shabbat ha-Malkah” by Israel Meir Lask can be found on pages 280-281 in the Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) where it appears as “Greeting to Queen Sabbath.” The poem is based on the shabbat song, “Shalom Alekhem” and first published in the poetry collection, Hazamir, in 1903. I have made a faithful transcription of the Hebrew and its English translation as it appears in the Sabbath Prayer Book. The first stanza of Lask’s translation was adapted from an earlier translation made by Angie Irma Cohon and published in 1920 in Song and Praise for Sabbath Eve (1920), p. 87. (Cohon’s translation of Bialik’s second stanza of “Shabbat ha-Malkah” does not appear to have been adapted by Lask.) . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Translation, modern hebrew poetry, Queens, rhyming translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Meir Lask (translation), Angie Irma Cohon and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

אַיֵּךְ | Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1904)

The poem, Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Purim Qatan

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, eros, modern hebrew poetry, Mrozy, Prayers as poems, Queens, מי או מה who or what

Contributor(s):

the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ruth Nevo (translation), Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַכְנִיסִינִי תַּחַת כְּנָפֵךְ | Take Me Under Your Wing, by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1905)

The prayer-poem, “Take Me Under Your Wing” (1905) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., diaspora, exile, heartbreak, לב נשבר lev nishbar, love-sickness, Openers, sanctuary, שכינה Shekhinah

Contributor(s):

Ruth Nevo (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Lecho daudi | Lekha Dodi, a paraliturgical adaptation by Lise Tarlau (1907)

This paraliturgical reflection of the piyyut “Lekha Dodi” by Lise Tarlau (“Lecho daudi”) 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 74-76. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, לך דודי Lekha Dodi, paraliturgical lekha dodi, paraliturgical reflections

Contributor(s):

Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

לְכָה דוֹדִי | Princess Sabbath, three stanzas of l’Khah Dodi by Shlomo al-Qabets (English adaptation by Angie Irma Cohon (1921)

These three stanzas of the piyyut l’Khah Dodi by Shlomo haLevi al-Qabets were adapted into English by Angie Irma Cohon and published in her תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p.16. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., hymns, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi

Contributor(s):

Angie Irma Cohon, Shlomo haLevi Al-Qabets and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Friday Eve, a poem by Rabbi Alter Abelson (1931)

The poem “Friday Eve” by Rabbi Alter Abelson (1931). . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Kohenet, Queens, romanticism, Sabbath Queen

Contributor(s):

Alter Abelson and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Sambatyon, a poem for Shabbat by Rabbi Alter Abelson (1931)

The poem “Sambatyon” (1931) by Rabbi Alter Abelson. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., mythopoesis, romanticism, the River Sambatyon

Contributor(s):

Alter Abelson and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

If I Let It: A Kavvanah for Kabbalat Shabbat, by Trisha Arlin

Shabbat happens, If I let it. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, first person, gateway, kindling

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Trisha Arlin

A Kavvanah for Welcoming the Shabbat with the Spring Equinox, by Rabbi Yaakov Reef

In the year 5775 (2015), the vernal equinox coincided with Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, the Hebrew month known also as Aviv (Spring), as well as the onset of Shabbat, and a total solar eclipse. Here is a short meditation to receive the shabbat in embrace of the new season. . . .

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the Dry Season (Spring & Summer), Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aviv, candle lighting, North America, Spring, vernal equinox

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Yaakov Reef

כְּגַוְנָא | k’Gavna (Just As) from the Zohar parashat Terumah §163-166, a paraliturgical interpretive translation by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

A paraliturgical translation of “k’Gavna” — a portion of the Zohar on parashat Terumah read before Ma’ariv in the ḥassidic-sefardic nusaḥ. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, the Zohar

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., interpretive translation, paraliturgical k'gavna

Contributor(s):

Rachel Barenblat

Song After the Revolution, an adaptation of Psalms 92 for Friday Evening by Rabbi Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago)

A paraliturgical adaptation of Psalms 92. . . .

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical Psalms 92, Psalms 92, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof

Contributor(s):

Brant Rosen and Congregation Tzedek Chicago

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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