Se'udah haShlishit • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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

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Asher Hillel Burstein

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Se'udah haShlishit

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Kristallnacht, International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Se'udah haShlishit

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

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.” . . .

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

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Honi Sanders (translation) and Asher Mizrahi

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Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

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

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

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

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Se'udah haShlishit, Motsei Shabbat

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

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

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

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שכינה Shekhinah, 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.

“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. . . .

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

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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Avraham Maimin

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Se'udah haShlishit

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

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)

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Len Fellman (translation) and Avraham Maimin

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Se'udah haShlishit

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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. . . .

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

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Morning Baqashot, Se'udah haShlishit

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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. . . .

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

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Ḳaraite Jews of America and Ya'aqov ha-Paitan

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

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, Needing Attribution

A song for celebrating the Shabbat. . . .

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

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Se'udah haShlishit

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

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

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

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation) and Shimon ibn Lavi

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

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

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

💬 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)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Shabbat Readings, the Zohar, Se'udah haShlishit

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

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Se'udah haShlishit

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

“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. . . .