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

Contributor(s):	Asher Hillel Burstein
Categories:	Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	משיח Moshiaḥ, זמירות zemirot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	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. . . .

יָצַר הָאֵל | Yatsar ha’El, a Shabbat song by Ya’aqov ha-Qara’i

Contributor(s):	Karaite Jews of America and Ya'aqov ha-Paitan
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, Needing Attribution
	A song for celebrating the Shabbat. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Honi Sanders (translation) and Asher Mizrahi
Categories:	Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	ציון Tsiyon, 20th century C.E., משיח Moshiaḥ, זמירות zemirot, פיוטים piyyutim, 57th century A.M.
	The popular table song calling for the redemption of the Messianic age in Tsiyon. . . .

תהלים קכ״ו | Psalms 126 (Shir haMaalot), a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Franz Rosenzweig (translation), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	20th century C.E., ברכת המזון birkat hamazon, זמירות zemirot, Psalms 126, 57th century A.M., German translation, שיר Shir, German Jewry
	Psalms 126 in Masoretic Hebrew, with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra
Categories:	Se'udah haShlishit, Motsei Shabbat
Tags:	50th century A.M., זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature
	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). . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Margaret Armour (translation) and Heinrich Heine
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, Elysium, lycanthropy, 19th century C.E., German orientalism, food, German romanticism, Sardonic poetry, 57th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah
	“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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Sara Lapidot (translation) and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
Categories:	Kabbalat Shabbat, Baqashot, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Divine name acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh
	The popular piyyut, Yedid Nefesh, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Akiva Sanders (translation) and Shimon ibn Lavi
Categories:	Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	55th century A.M., 16th century C.E., pizmonim, shimon ben yoḥai, זמירות zemirot, Needing Source Images
	A pizmon and table song sung on Shabbat and on Lag ba-Omer with English translation. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria
Categories:	Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	interpretive translation, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, Lurianic Kabbalah, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, devotional interpretation, Atqinu Seudata
	A piyyut by the ARI for the afternoon of Shabbat in Aramaic set side-by-side with Reb Zalman’s paraliturgical, devotional translation. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Avraham Maimin
Categories:	Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, prayers of kabbalists, shaleshudes, אל מסתתר El mistater
	The mystical piyyut of Avraham Maimin, a student of Moshe Cordovero, translated by Reb Zalman. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Len Fellman (translation) and Avraham Maimin
Categories:	Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	Acrostic signature, prayers of kabbalists, shaleshudes, אל מסתתר El mistater, זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim
	The mystical piyyut of Avraham Maimin, a student of Moshe Cordovero, translated by Len Fellman. . . .

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

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories:	Shabbat Readings, the Zohar, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	Mosheh Rabbenu, joy
	A reading from the Zohar providing context for the third meal of Shabbat (the Saturday afternoon meal, se’udah shlishit/shaleshudes). . . .

רָאשֵׁי עָם עֵת הִתְאַסֵּף | When the chiefs of the people meet, a muwassaha poem by Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)

Contributor(s):	Herman Prins Salomon (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Categories:	Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., the River Sambatyon, muwassaha, משיח Moshiaḥ
	“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. . . .

תהלים כ״ג | Psalms 23, a mizmor by David translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the Masoretic Text and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
Categories:	Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41), Travel, Se'udah haShlishit
Tags:	interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Psalms 23, מזמור Mizmor, devotional interpretation
	A paraliturgical translation of Psalms 23 in English, set side-by-side with the Masoretic Hebrew. . . .

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