Se'udat Leil Shabbat • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

A Man of Value, by Debra Cash

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Debra Cash

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Travel, Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

This version of Eyshet Ḥayil replaces valor with value, and while it speaks of man in terms of family, community, and the natural world, it is not heteronormative. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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Angels, 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. . . .

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

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Benyamim Tsedaka

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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קידוש ḳiddush, 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 . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eshet Ḥayil, adaption by Alex and Peri Sinclair

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Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael, Feminism, role models, love, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, eros, acrostic, 21st century C.E.

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). . . .

Motzi, a kavvanah before eating ḥallah by Trisha Arlin

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Trisha Arlin

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, חלה challah ḥallah, food, bread, ברכת המוציא birkat hamotsi, yom tov, Kolot Chayeinu

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.” . . .

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

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Mark X. Jacobs

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

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North America, קידוש ḳiddush, 58th century A.M., Teva Learning Center, 20th century C.E., eco-conscious

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. . . .

הַנָּאוָה בַּבָּנוֹת | Hana’avah Babanōt, a song by Amitai Ne’eman (1955)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Amitai Ne'eman

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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eros, 58th century A.M., ישראל Yisrael, 20th century C.E.

The popular Israeli song from the 1950s. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alter Abelson

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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

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

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eshet Ḥayil (Proverbs 31:10-31), German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)

Contributor(s):

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

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Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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acrostic, 57th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry, Alphabetic Acrostic, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, 20th century C.E.

The Masoretic Hebrew text of Proverbs 30:10-31, the alphabetic acrostic “Eshet Ḥayil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם | Shalom Aleikhem, the piyyut for Friday evenings in German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)

Contributor(s):

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

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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20th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, Angels, פיוטים piyyutim, 57th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem

The popular adjuration of the angels of peace and ministering angels, Shalom Aleikhem, in Hebrew with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

על אהבתך אשתה גביעי | Al Ahavatekha Eshteh Gəvi’i, a piyyut of Yehudah haLevi (German translation by Franz Rosenzweig 1921)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Franz Rosenzweig (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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פיוטים piyyutim, 57th century A.M., German translation, German Jewry, 20th century C.E.

The text of Yehudah haLevi’s piyyut, “Al Ahavatekha Eshteh Gəvi’i,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

ברכת הבנים | Sabbath Blessing, a prayer-poem for children before their parent’s blessing by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Jessie Ethel Sampter

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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blessings, 20th century C.E., Priestly Blessing, Parents blessing children, 57th century A.M., children's prayers, rhyming translation, ברכת הבנים blessing of the children

This prayer-poem on receiving a parent’s Sabbath Blessing was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 25. . . .

Engelsgruß (Scholaum alechem) | Angels Greeting (Shalom Aleikhem), a paraliturgical adaptation by Lise Tarlau (1907)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Lise Tarlau

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, paraliturgical reflections, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, paraliturgical shalom aleikhem

This paraliturgical adaptation of the piyyut Shalom Aleikhem by Lise Tarlau (“Engelsgruß. (Scholaum alechem.)”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 85. . . .

אָשִׁיר לָאֵל אֲשֶׁר שָׁבַת | Ashir la-El Asher Shavat, a piyyut by Rabbi Mosheh ha-Levi (ca. 19th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Mosheh ha-Levi

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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57th century A.M., 19th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, Needing Source Images

A piyyut and table song for Shabbat by the chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. . . .

Shalom Aleikhem, a paraliturgical adaptation by Rabbi David Einhorn (1858)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Joshua Giorgio-Rubin and David Einhorn

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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Angels, 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, paraliturgical shalom aleikhem, 19th century C.E.

This paraliturgical “Shalom Aleikhem” is as found in Rabbi David Einhorn’s עלת תמיד Gebetbuch für Israelitische Reform-Gemeinden (1858), p. 417. The English translation here, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin, translating Rabbi David Einhorn, is as found in Rubin’s Olat Hadashah: A Modern Adaptation of David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid for Shabbat Evening (2020), pp. 13-14. . . .

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

“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. . . .

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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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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hymns, יה אכסוף Yah Ekhsof, זמירות zemirot, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Ḥasidic

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

יָהּ אֶכְסוֹף נוֹעַם שַׁבָּת | Yah Ekhsof No’am Shabbat, a zemer for Shabbat by Reb Aharon of Karlin (trans. by Rabbi Morrison David Bial)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morrison David Bial and Aharon ben Yaakov Perlov of Karlin

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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hymns, יה אכסוף Yah Ekhsof, זמירות zemirot, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Ḥasidic

The shabbos table song “Yah Ekhsof No’am Shabbat” by Rabbi Aharon of Karlin, translated by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 29-30, from where this translation was transcribed. . . .

שִׁמְרוּ שַׁבְּתוֹתַי | Shimru Shabtotai, a pizmon by Salomone Rossi (ca. late 16th, early 17th c.)

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation) and Salomone Rossi

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, פזמונים pizmonim

A zemer for shabbat, with English translation. . . .

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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17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah, אין אדיר Ayn Adir, זמירות zemirot, via negativa, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim

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

יוֹם שַׁבָּת קוֹדֶשׁ הוּא | Yom Shabbat Ḳodesh Hu, a table song for Shabbat (trans. Bracha Jaffe)

Contributor(s):

Bracha Jaffe (translation) and Yehonatan haPaytan

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Acrostic signature, יום שבת קודש הוא Yom Shabbat Ḳodesh Hu

Based on the acrostic signature, this piyyut popularly sung at the Shabbat table, is attributed to an otherwise unknown paytan named Yehonatan. . . .

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. . . .

אֲזַמֵּר בִּשְׁבָחִין | Azamer biShvaḥin, a piyyut for Friday evening by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi)

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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

The Friday evening shabbat piyyut, Atqinu Seudata, in Aramaic set side-by-side with Reb Zalman’s paraliturgical, devotional translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translation by Sara-Kinneret Lapidot

Contributor(s):

Sara Lapidot (translation) and Yisrael Najara

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, יה רבון Yah Ribon

The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translated by Rabbi Israel Brodie (1962)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Brodie and Yisrael Najara

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, יה רבון Yah Ribon, זמירות zemirot

The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) rhyming translation by Israel Abrahams (1914)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Abrahams and Yisrael Najara

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, rhyming translation, יה רבון Yah Ribon, זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim

The piyyut, yah Ribon Olam, in Hebrew with a rhyming English translation. . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola (1857)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Yisrael Najara

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, rhyming translation, יה רבון Yah Ribon, זמירות zemirot, acrostic

This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Yah Ribon” by Rabbi Yisrael Najara was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

יָהּ רִבּוֹן | Yah Ribōn, a piyyut by Rabbi Yisrael Najara (16th c.) translated by Paltiel Birnbaum (1949)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and Yisrael Najara

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, יה רבון Yah Ribon

The piyyut, Yah Ribon, in Aramaic with an English 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 first se’udah of Shabbat from the Zohar (parashat Yitro)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Shabbat Readings, the Zohar, Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., eros

A reading from the Zohar providing context for the first meal of Shabbat on Friday evening. . . .

בָּרוּךְ אֵל עֶלְיוֹן | Barukh El Elyon, a piyyut by Barukh bar Shmuel of Mayence (ca. 12th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Barukh ben Shmuel of Mainz

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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Acrostic signature, זמירות zemirot, פיוטים piyyutim, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Needing Source Images

A piyyut and table song for Shabbat from 13th century Ashkenaz. . . .

שָׁלוֹם לְךָ (לְבֶן) דּוֹדִי | Shalom Lekh (l’Ven) Dodi, by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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Acrostic signature, שיר נשירים shir hashirim, זמירות zemirot, eros, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M.

A piyyut presenting a dialogue between a couple and Hashem. . . .

מַה יְּדִידוּת מְנוּחָתֵךְ | Mah Yedidut M’nuḥatekh, attributed to Menaḥem ibn Saruq (ca. 10th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Menaḥem ibn Saruq

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Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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10th century C.E., 48th century A.M., feast of the righteous, זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Acrostic signature, Sabbath Queen

The popular table song for Shabbat. . . .

תהלים קי״ב | Psalms 112 (Ashrei Ish)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)

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Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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gender expression, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, Psalms 112, acrostic, gender roles, Alphabetic Acrostic

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

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)

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Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

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German Jewry, 20th century C.E., ברכת המזון birkat hamazon, זמירות zemirot, Psalms 126, 57th century A.M., German translation, שיר Shir

Psalms 126 in Masoretic Hebrew, with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

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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Alphabetic Acrostic, devotional interpretation, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, interpretive translation, זמירות zemirot, acrostic

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