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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and April Rosenblum
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כ״ח באדר ה׳תשע״ח (2018-03-15)
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 Modern Miscellany, Ḥanukkah Readings, Purim Readings
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 liberation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., combating antisemitism, solidarity, combating anti-Jewish oppression, particularism and universalism, who we are, Jewish Radicalism, Jewish liberation, shfokh ḥamatkha
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It’s always a real struggle for the Left to successfully tackle oppression within its own ranks. But when we do it, our movements gain, every time, from the deeper understandings that emerge. To start the process this time, we need some basic information about what anti-Jewish oppression is and how to counter it. But it has to come from a perspective of justice for all people, not from opportunistic attempts to slander or censor social justice efforts that are gaining strength. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Susan Weingarten (translation), Moshe Shmi'el Dascola and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ח בתמוז ה׳תשע״ו (2016-08-03)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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women, Judith, anti-predatory, dairy foods, soporifics, resistance, Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, 14th century C.E., heroic women, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, 52nd century A.M., derivative work
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This is a faithful transcription of the text of the medieval Megillat Yehudith (the Scroll of Judith), not to be confused with the deutero-canonical Book of Judith, authored in Antiquity. We have further set this text side-by-side with the English translation made by Susan Weingarten, and vocalized and cantillated the Hebrew so that it may be chanted. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Isaac ben Moses Magriso
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ט׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ז (2017-01-06)
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Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use)
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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings
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Angels, Ladino Translation, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Sepharadi Diaspora, Ottoman Jewry, derivative work, Needing Proofreading
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This is a largely uncorrected transcription of Rabbi Isaac Magriso’s telling of Megillat Antiokhus in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) from the Me’am Loez: Bamidbar Parshat BeHe’alotekha (Constantinople, 1764). The paragraph breaks are a rough estimation based on my comparison with the English translation of Dr. Tzvi Faier (1934-2009) appearing in The Torah Anthology: Me’am Loez, Book Thirteen – In the Desert (Moznaim 1982). I welcome all Ladino speakers and readers to help correct this transcription and to provide a complete English translation for non-Ladino readers. . . . |
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Anat Hochberg (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ה בכסלו ה׳תשע״ו (2015-12-06)
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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, eating animals, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot
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This digital edition of Midrash Ma’aseh Ḥanukkah was transcribed from the print edition published in Otzar Hamidrashim (I. D. Eisenstein, New York: Eisenstein Press, 5675/1915, p.189-190). With much gratitude to Anat Hochberg, this is the first translation of this midrash into English. . . . |
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Aliza Arzt, Isabel Bard (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-10)
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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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Angels, Early Middle Ages, cosmological, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, Seleucid Greek Occupation, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot
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The following is the Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, one of a collection of three midrashim and two megillot containing the details of the story of Ḥanukkah in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Those already familiar with these other works will quickly recognize portions or summaries of them here albeit with precious additional information added not found anywhere else. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), John C. Reeves (translation), Menaḥem Tsvi Kaddari and Unknown Author(s)
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כ״ג בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-20)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Aramaic, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Maccabees, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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The critical text of Megillat Antiokhus in its original Aramaic, prepared by Menaḥem Tsvi Kaddari and translated into English by John C. Reeves. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ו׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ד (2013-12-09)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Aramaic, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Yiddish translation, Hebrew translation, Maccabees, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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The Megillat Antiochus was composed in Palestinian Aramaic sometime between the 2nd and 5th century CE, likely in the 2nd Century when the memory of the Bar Kochba revolt still simmered.. The scroll appears in a number of variations. The Aramaic text below follows the critical edition prepared by Menaḥem Tzvi Kaddari, and preserves his verse numbering. The English translation by Rabbi Joseph Adler (1936) follows the Hebrew translation in the middle column, the source of which is a medieval manuscript reprinted by Tzvi Filipowsky in 1851. Adler and Kaddari’s verse ordering loosely follows one another indicating variations in manuscripts. Where Aramaic is missing from Kaddari’s text, the Aramaic version from Adler’s work is included in parentheses. Adler also included a Yiddish translation which we hope will be fully transcribed (along with vocalized Hebrew text, a Hungarian translation, and perhaps even a Marathi translation from South India) for Ḥanukkah 5775 , G!d willing. . . . |
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Devora Steinmetz and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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י״ז בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (2010-11-24)
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Midrash Aggadah, Winter Solstice, Ḥanukkah Readings
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sourcesheet, sunset, night, Winter Solstice, קלנדס Ḳalends, Psalms 139, הבדלות havdalot
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Our Rabbis taught: When Adam HaRishon (primordial Adam) saw the day getting gradually shorter, he said, ‘Woe is me, perhaps because I have sinned, the world around me is being darkened and returning to its state of chaos and confusion; this then is the kind of death to which I have been sentenced from Heaven!’ So he began keeping an eight days’ fast. But as he observed the winter solstice and noted the day getting increasingly longer, he said, ‘This is the world’s course’, and he set forth to keep an eight days’ festivity. In the following year he appointed both as festivals. Now, he fixed them for the sake of Heaven, but the [unenlightened] appointed them for the sake of star worship. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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ט׳ באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-07-21)
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Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Hebrew translation, Seleucid Greek Occupation, Classical Antiquity, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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Perhaps Megillat Antiokhus could be read a la Esther on Purim (the holiday with the most similarities), going to Eicha trope in the upsetting parts. A few notes: on the final mention of Bagris the Wicked I included a karnei-farah in the manner of the karnei-farah in Esther. I also included a merkha kefulah in the concluding section, which (according to David Weisberg’s “The Rare Accents of the Twenty-Eight Books”) represents aggadic midrash material. It also serves as a connection to the Chanukah haftarah, which is famously the only one that has a merkha kefulah. –Isaac Mayer . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Jason of Cyrene and Unknown Author(s)
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כ׳ בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-05)
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Second Temple Period, Ḥanukkah Readings
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kindling, Angels, Maccabees, combating anti-Jewish oppression, 2nd century B.C.E., 37th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, המזבח the Mizbe'aḥ, prayers for dedications and commissioning, Maccabean Revolt, נר תמיד ner tamid
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Selections from 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, and Pesiqta Rabbati which inform the story of Ḥanukkah: the desecration and re-dedication of the Temple (especially as it relates to Sukkot and the Brumalia), divine intervention in the Maccabean battles, and the Rekindling of the Sacred Fire. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), the Masoretic Text and Ḥaggai haNavi
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כ״ב בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-07)
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Special Haftarot, Ḥaggai, Ḥanukkah Readings
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הפטרות haftarot, 5th century B.C.E, 32nd century A.M.
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When the first day of Ḥanukkah is a Shabbat, the last day of Ḥanukkah is also Shabbat. In most customs this is addressed by using the standard Shabbat Ḥanukkah haftarah from Zechariah on the first day and I Kings 7:40–50 on the last day. But this never sat well with me, since I Kings 7:40–50 (also the haftara for Vayakhel) is a very technical reading, and the last day of Ḥanukkah is more of a culmination. Conveniently, another minor prophet contemporary of Zechariah, Ḥaggai, discusses the reconstruction of the House as a process of national revitalization, *and* claims that the foundation of the temple was rebuilt on the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month — i.e. the day before Ḥanukkah! This is historically fascinating since it suggests that Ḥanukkah as a rededication festival might predate the Maccabean Revolt entirely, but more importantly here, it makes it a very appropriate reading for the day before or the first day of Ḥanukkah. This is an alternative haftarah from the book of Ḥaggai , chapter 2 verses 2—23, that could be used as a replacement for the standard haftarah when Shabbat falls on the day before Ḥanukkah or on the first day of Ḥanukkah. When read on the first day of Ḥanukkah, the traditional Ḥanukkah haftarah reading of Zechariah 2:14–4:7 would be postponed to the eighth day in its place. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation)
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ו׳ בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-20)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Aramaic, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Maccabees, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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This is a direct transcription, including cantillation and non-standard vocalizations, of the cantillated Megilat Antiokhos found in the British Library manuscript Or 5866, folios 105v-110r. . . . |
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