“Roshei am et hitasef umlekhim b’sodam” by Yehuda Halevi was translated by Herman Prins Salomon in “Yehuda Halevi and his ‘Cid’” and published in The American Sepharadi (1978), pp. 22-46. . . .

Categories: Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., משיח Moshiaḥ, muwassaha, the River Sambatyon

Contributor(s): Herman Prins Salomon (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

אֱלֹהִים יִסְעָדֵנוּ | Elohim Yisadenu, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Elohim Yisadenu” by a paytan named Avraham (possibly Avraham ibn Ezra) was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

Categories: Se'udah haShlishit, Motsei Shabbat

Tags: 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, פיוטים piyyutim, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 זָכוֹר אֶת־יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ | Remember the Shabbat day to keep it holy, a reading for the third se’udah of Shabbat from the Zohar (parashat Yitro)

A reading from the Zohar providing context for the third meal of Shabbat (the Saturday afternoon meal, se’udah shlishit/shaleshudes). . . .

Categories: Shabbat Readings, the Zohar, Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., joy, Mosheh Rabbenu

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

בַּר־יוֹחַאי | Bar Yoḥai, a pizmon by Shimon ibn Lavi (ca. 16th c.)

A pizmon and table song sung on Shabbat and on Lag ba-Omer with English translation. . . .

Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Needing Source Images, פזמונים pizmonim, shimon ben yoḥai, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation) and Shimon ibn Lavi

בְּנֵי הֵיכָלָא | Bnei Heikhala, a piyyut for Shabbat afternoon by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

A piyyut by the ARI for the afternoon of Shabbat in Aramaic set side-by-side with Reb Zalman’s paraliturgical, devotional translation. . . .

Categories: Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Aramaic, Atqinu Seudata, devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, Lurianic Kabbalah, פיוטים piyyutim

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) and Yitsḥak Luria

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. . . .

Categories: Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Morning Baqashot, Se'udah haShlishit

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

Contributor(s): Sara Lapidot (translation) and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri

אֵל מִסְתַּתֵּר | El Mistater (The God who is Hidden), by Avraham Maimin (ca. 1550, translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

The mystical piyyut of Avraham Maimin, a student of Moshe Cordovero, translated by Reb Zalman. . . .

Categories: Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, אל מסתתר El mistater, פיוטים piyyutim, prayers of kabbalists, shaleshudes, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) and Avraham Maimin

אֵל מִסְתַּתֵּר | El Mistater :: The God who is hidden, by Avraham Maimin (circa 1550)

The mystical piyyut of Avraham Maimin, a student of Moshe Cordovero, translated by Len Fellman. . . .

Categories: Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: acrostic, Acrostic signature, אל מסתתר El mistater, פיוטים piyyutim, prayers of kabbalists, shaleshudes, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Avraham Maimin and Len Fellman (translation)

Prinzessin Sabbat | Princess Shabbat, by Heinrich Heine (1851)

“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. . . .

Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Elysium, food, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, German orientalism, German romanticism, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, lycanthropy, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Sardonic poetry, שכינה Shekhinah

Contributor(s): Margaret Armour (translation), Heinrich Heine and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

חֲבִיבִי יָהּ חֲבִיבִי | Ḥavivi Yah Ḥavivi, by Asher Mizrahi (ca. early 20th c.)

The popular table song calling for the redemption of the Messianic age in Tsiyon. . . .

Categories: Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., משיח Moshiaḥ, פיוטים piyyutim, ציון Tsiyon, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Honi Sanders (translation) and Asher Mizrahi

שִׁיר הַגְאוּלָה (החיינו אל) | Shir ha-Ge’ulah (Song of Redemption), by an anonymous author (1940)

This is a vocalized transcription and translation of the World War Ⅱ era song, “Shir haGe’ulah (Song of Redemption)” from the source images shared in A Tribute to Rabbi Mordechai Meir Hakohen Bryski v”g Bryski (Rabbi Mordechai A. Katz, 2017), pp. 19-20. The song is also known by its incipit, “Heḥayyeinu El.” . . .

Categories: 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Kristallnacht (9-10 November, 16 Marḥeshvan), 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, משיח Moshiaḥ, the Holocaust, World War Ⅱ, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אֵלִי כְּבוֹדִי: זמר לסעודה השלישית | Eli Kevodi (My God, My Glory), a hymn for the third sabbath meal by Asher Hillel Burstein

Eli Kevodi (My God, My Glory”), for seudah shelisheet, was composed by Asher Hillel Burstein in 2018. The hymn was awarded the “Rabbi Hershel Matt Creative Liturgy Award,” the first prize in the creative liturgy contest sponsored by ARC (The Association of Rabbis and Cantors), an interdenominational group of Jewish clergy. . . .

Categories: Se'udah haShlishit

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., משיח Moshiaḥ, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Asher Hillel Burstein

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