Shabbat Readings • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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

Contributor(s):

Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and the Masoretic Text

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

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Shabbat Readings, the Zohar, Se'udah haShlishit

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Mosheh Rabbenu, joy

A reading from the Zohar providing context for the third meal of Shabbat (the Saturday afternoon meal, se’udah shlishit/shaleshudes). . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

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Shabbat Readings, Midrash Aggadah

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

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. . . .

כְּגַוְנָא | K’gavna, on the Secret of Oneness and the Mystery of Shabbat, a reading from the Zohar (Parashat Terumah §163-166 & §169-170)

Contributor(s):

Marcia Prager and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Shabbat Readings, Ḳabbalat Shabbat, the Zohar

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shekhina, כבוד kavod, שבת ערבית shabbat arvit

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. . . .