In siddurim following the nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l, the Barekhu call to prayer is immediately preceded by a passage from the Zohar, Parshat Terumah, explaining the profound significance of the Maariv service. . . .

Categories: Shabbat Readings, Ḳabbalat Shabbat, the Zohar

Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., כבוד kavod, שבת ערבית shabbat arvit, shekhina

Contributor(s): Marcia Prager and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 Təʾəzazä Sänbät, a work from the Greater Betä Ǝsraʾel Canon, translated and cantillated in Masoretic Hebrew

The Təʾəzazä Sänbät, or the Commandments of the Sabbath, is a unique and fascinatingly eclectic work, combining Enochic and aggadic material with an almost kabbalistic personification of Shabbat, and influence from Islamic and Christian texts. Attributed to Abba Ṣabra, a famed 15th-century convert to Judaism, it is a compilation of texts meant to be studied and considered on Shabbat, alongside unique and striking visualizations of divine cosmology, heaven and hell, and midrashim found nowhere else. . . .

Categories: Shabbat Readings, Midrash Aggadah

Tags: Angels, Ethiopian Jewry, Mäṣḥäf Ḳədus, parabiblical aggadah, Sabbath Queen, Te'ezaza Sanbat

Contributor(s): Wolf Leslau (translation: English), Abba Tsabrah (traditional attribution), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

💬 שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים | Shir haShirim (The Song of Songs), English translation by Paltiel Birnbaum (1949)

Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum’s translation of The Song of Songs (Shir haShirim) in Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem (The [Complete] Daily Prayer Book), Hebrew Publishing Company, 1949. . . .

Categories: Shabbat Readings, Pesaḥ Readings, Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs, Canticles)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English Translation, eros, Five Megillot, קבלת שבת kabbalat shabbat, Ketuvim, North America

Contributor(s): Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and the Masoretic Text

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