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

A zemer for shabbat, with English translation.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation) and Salomone Rossi

תְּחִנַּת שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם | Shalom Aleikhem teḥinah after lighting the Shabbat candles (1600)

This is the Hebrew text of a teḥinah for Shalom Aleikhem intended for women lighting candles on the commencement of Shabbat and festival days as found on the last page in the Basel edition of the [collection of prayers entitled] Birkhat ha-Mazon (Basel: Waldkirch, 1600). The English translation is by Rabbi Dr. Morris M. Faierstein as published in “An Early Modern Version of Shalom Aleichem for Women after Friday Candle Lighting” in Women in Judaism, 19(2), on page 4.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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Angels, candle lighting, kindling, paraliturgical shalom aleikhem, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morris M. Faierstein (translation) and Unknown

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

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

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Shavuot, Seudat Leil Shabbat, Simḥat Torah

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

Contributor(s):

Akiva Sanders (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

An interpretive translation of the shabbes hymn, Yah Ekhsof.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Aharon ben Yaakov Perlov of Karlin and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

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.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

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

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.

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

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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)

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

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.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

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

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

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

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Seudat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Mosheh ha-Levi

The Hebrew’s Friday Night (After Burns), by Israel Zangwill (1903)

“The Hebrew’s Friday Night (After Burns)” was written by Israel Zangwill and first published in his collection of poetry, Blind Children (1903), pp. 114-116.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English poetry, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Israel Zangwill

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

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.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

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.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Jessie Ethel Sampter and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

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

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

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

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

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

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Mishlei (Proverbs), Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

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

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

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

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Alter Abelson and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

The popular Israeli song from the 1950s.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

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

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

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.

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Seudat Leil Shabbat, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

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

Contributor(s):

Mark X. Jacobs

Motzi, a kavvanah before eating ḥallah by Trisha Arlin

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.”

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Trisha Arlin

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

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).

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Peri Sinclair, Alex Sinclair (emendation) and the Mesorah (TaNaKh)

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

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

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Seudat Leil Shabbat

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קידוש ḳiddush, Needing Source Images, Needing Transcription, Samaritan, Nusaḥ haSamerim

Contributor(s):

Benyamim Tsedaka

A Man of Value, by Debra Cash

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.

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Travel, Seudat Leil Shabbat

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

Contributor(s):

Debra Cash

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