 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A reading from the Zohar providing context for the first meal of Shabbat on Friday evening. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A reading from the Zohar providing context for the second meal of Shabbat (the Saturday lunch meal). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A reading from the Zohar providing context for the third meal of Shabbat (the Saturday afternoon meal, se’udah shlishit/shaleshudes). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A reading of Shir haShirim (the Songs of Songs, a/k/a Canticles) with English translation, transtropilized. . . . |