Shavuot Readings • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

מעשה טוביה ליום שני של שבועות | The Story of Toḇiyah for the second day of Shavuot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Megillot, Shavuot Readings

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שדים sheydim, derivative work, Hebrew translation, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., tithing, apotropaic rituals of protection, Tobit, mysterious fish, Ashmodai

The story of Toviah (Tobit) in Hebrew translation, in an abridged version arranged for public reading on the second day of Shavuot. . . .

Haftarah reading for the Second Day of Shavuot (Ḥabaquq 2:20-3:19) with its Targum and the piyyut Yetsiv Pitgam by Rabbeinu Tam (ca. 12th c.)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Yaaqov ben Meir, Yonatan ben Uziel, the Masoretic Text and Ḥabaquq haNavi

Categories:

Shavuot Readings, Ḥabaquq

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הפטרות haftarot, rhyming translation, 50th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic translation, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, יציב פתגם Yetsiv Pitgam, תרגום targum, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, transtropilation

The haftarah for the second day of Shavuot, Ḥabakkuk 2:20-3:19, interspersed with a cantillated text of the Targum Yonatan ben Uzziel. Since Targum Yonatan is a bit more drash-heavy than Targum Onkelos, it is translated separately as well. The haftarah reading includes the piyyut Yetsiv Pitgam, with an acrostic rhyming translation of the poem, with the second-to-last verse restored to its rightful place, as well as a concluding paragraph for the meturgeman to recite, as found in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .

መጽሐፈ ኩፋሌ | ספר היובלים | Sefer haYovelim (the book of Jubilees, in Ge’ez)

Contributor(s):

Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Second Temple Period, Shavuot Readings

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deuterocanonical works, יובל Yovel Jubilee, Ethiopian Jewry, anti-predatory, parabiblical aggadah, pre-rabbinic judaism, Mäṣḥäf Ḳədus, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., mytho-historical chronicles, early Judaism

We are grateful to Dr. James VanderKam for preparing this critical text of the Book of Jubilees (Sefer Yubalim) in its Ge’ez translation in Ethiopic script. The book of Jubilees is an early Jewish deutero-canonical text originally written in Hebrew and composed during the Second Temple period sometime before the Maccabean struggle (164 BCE). . . .

מגילת רות | Megillat Rūt: Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

Contributor(s):

Len Fellman (translation) and the Masoretic Text

Categories:

Rūt (Ruth), Shavuot Readings

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English Translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Five Megillot, Cantillated readings in English, Megillah Readings in English, transtropilation

A Megillah reading of Rūt (Ruth) with English translation, transtropilized. . . .

מגילת רות | Megillat Ruth, Yiddish translation by Yehoyesh Blumgarten (1910)

Contributor(s):

Yehoyesh Shloyme Blumgarten (translation) and The Yehoyesh Project (transcription)

Categories:

Rūt (Ruth), Shavuot Readings

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Yiddish translation

For the reading of Megillat Ruth on Shavuot, I have presented here the Masoretic text of Ruth according to the R’ Seth (Avi) Kaddish’s experimental Miqra ‘al pi haMesorah side-by-side with Yehoyesh (Yehoash) Blumgarten’s masterful translation in Yiddish. . . .