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שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (שְׁלָמָא אֵילוֹכוּן)‏ | Shalom Aleikhem (Shlama Elokhun), Aramaic translation by Yaacov Maoz

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yaacov Maoz (Aramaic translation)
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פיוטים piyyutim, prophylactic, apotropaic prayers of protection, Aramaic translation, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Suret)

The popular piyyut for welcoming the Shabbat, in Hebrew with translations in Assyrian-Aramaic and English. . . .

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

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alter Abelson
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Kabbalat Shabbat, Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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romanticism, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Sabbath Queen, Queens, Kohenet

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

תהלים קי״ב | Ashrei Ish (Psalms 112)

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150)
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acrostic, gender roles, Alphabetic Acrostic, Eyshet Ḥayil, gender expression, male role models

Psalms 112 in Hebrew with English translation, arranged by Aharon Varady. . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eyshet Ḥayil, adapted by Alex and Peri Sinclair

Contributor(s): Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair
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Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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Feminism, love, eros, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Eyshet Ḥayil, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael

Peri and Alex Sinclair’s adaptation of the traditional Eishet Ḥayil, replacing a number of verses with ones selected from Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs/Canticles), Genesis, and elsewhere in Mishlei (Proverbs). . . .

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

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

“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. . . .

קִדּוּשׁ שֶׁל שִׁחְרוּר עַל שַׁבָּת ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Shabbat Kiddush of Liberation for Shabbat Tu biShvat, by Mark X. Jacobs (1993)

Contributor(s): Mark X. Jacobs
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Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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20th century C.E., eco-conscious, North America, kiddush, 58th century A.M., Teva Learning Center

We call to sukkat shalom, the shelter of peace, all of our various selves To rest from the contortion of social life and the demands of others. We liberate ourselves and each other from roles and titles labels and closets positions and pretendings internalized oppressions and oppressive projections hierarchies and competition. . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Éshet Ḥayil (Proverbs 31:10-31) For an Accomplished Woman, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Unknown Author(s) and the Masoretic Text
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Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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interpretive translation, זמירות zemirot, Alphabetic Acrostic, Eyshet Ḥayil, devotional interpretation

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive translation of Proverbs 31:10-31, popularly read before the first festive meal for shabbat on Friday night. . . .

יָהּ אֶכְסוֹף נוֹעַם שַׁבָּת | Yah Ekhsof No’am Shabbat, a Shabbes hymn by Reb Aharon of Karlin (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Aharon ben Yaakov Perlov of Karlin
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זמירות zemirot, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Hassidic, hymns

An interpretive translation of the shabbes hymn, Yah Ekhsof. . . .

Motzi — a kavvanah before eating ḥallah, by Trisha Arlin

Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin
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food, bread, חלה ḥallah, yom tov, Kolot Chayeinu, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

Trisha Arlin shares “Motzi”, a kavanah (intention) for the blessing, Hamotzi Lehem Min Ha’aretz, over challah. Describing the kavanah she writes that it’s, “based on Rabbi Ellen Lippmann’s tradition on having us create a chain of touch around room that leads to and from the challah, which she then explains as both exemplifying the connection created when people eat together and the chain of work that went to creating the challah itself.” . . .

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
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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udah Shniyah, Se'udah Shlishit
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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, Needing Attribution

A song for celebrating the Shabbat. . . .

אֵין אַדִּיר כַּיְיָ (מִפִּי אֵל)‏ | Ayn Adir kAdonai (Mipi El) :: There is none like YHVH

Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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Shavuot, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah

A popular piyyut for Simḥat Torah (4th hakkafah) originally composed as a piyyut for Shavuot and often referred to by its incipit, “Mipi El.” . . .

Israelite Samaritan Kiddush for the Shabbat Evening Meal, translated by Benyamim Sedaka

Contributor(s): Benyamim Sedaka
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kiddush, Samaritan, Needing Transcription, Nusaḥ haSamerim, Needing Source Images

Benyamim Sedaka’s English translations of the Israelite-Samaritan “Blessing on the Food” (Kiddush) and Abraham ben Marchiv Tsedaka Hassafari’s opening to the Friday night Shabbat meal . . .

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

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Shabbat, the Zohar
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A reading from the Zohar providing context for the first meal of Shabbat on Friday evening. . . .

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