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Parashat Yitro

This is an archive of Torah and Haftarah readings for Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:22), the fifth parashah in Sefer Shemot according to the annual Torah reading cycle.

The haftarah reading for Parashat Mishpatim is Isaiah 6:1-7:6 & Isaiah 9:5-6.

Parashat Yitro is preceded by parashat Parashat b’Shalaḥ (Exodus 13:17-17:16). Parashat Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18) follows it.

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💬 Haftarah Reading for Parashat Yitro (Isaiah 6:1-7:6 & 9:5-6): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

The haftarah reading for Parashat Yitro, in English translation, transtropilized. . . .

Categories: Yeshayah (Isaiah), Parashat Yitro

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, הפטרות haftarot, transtropilation

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text, Yeshayahu ben Amōts and Len Fellman (translation)

📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:22): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

A Torah reading of Parashat Yitro in English translation, transtropilized. . . .

Categories: Sefer Shemot (Exodus), Parashat Yitro, Shavuot Readings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, Decalogue, English Translation, Har Sinai, theophany, transtropilation, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text and Len Fellman (translation)

📜 פָּרָשַׁת יִתְרוֹ | Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:22), color-coded according to its narrative layers

The text of parashat Yitro, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .

Categories: Sefer Shemot (Exodus), Parashat Yitro, Shavuot Readings

Tags: 31st century A.M., 8th century B.C.E., annual Torah reading cycle, Har Sinai, mythopoesis, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, פרשות parashot, redaction criticism, שבת shabbat, פרשת יתרו Parashat Yitro, supplementary hypothesis, theophany, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim

Contributor(s): Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic kernel 'E', Masoretic layer 'P', Masoretic layer 'J' and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-14) in Ladino translation from the Constantinople Codex (1547)

There are various traditions as to the numbering of the commandments, as well as the enumeration of verses of the Decalogue, the Ten Commandment. In this transcription of the Ladino text we are following the numeration of verses according to the Constantinople Codex of 1547 C.E., as edited by the great scholar Professor Moshe Lazar (z”l) of the University of Southern California in 1988. This newly typeset text is an original transcription by Reb Shmuel Gonzales, of the Boyle Heights Chavurah – of the grassroots Jewish community of East Los Angeles, California; transcriber and editor of Sephardic texts for the Open Siddur Project; in celebration of Shavuot of 5783, and published in May of 2023. . . .

Categories: Parashat Yitro, Shavuot Readings, Addenda

Tags: 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., עשרת הדיברות aseret hadibrot, civil declarations and charters, Ladino Translation

Contributor(s): Shmueli Gonzales (transcription) and the Masoretic Text

🆕 אִמְרוֹת הָאֵל טְהוֹרוֹת | Imrot ha-El Ṭ’horot — a meorah piyyut for days on which the Decalogue is recited, by Yehuda ben Shmuel haLevi

A meorah — a piyyuṭ to be inserted before the ḥatima of the first blessing of the Shema’ — by the great payṭan Yehuda haLevi. This piyyuṭ was traditionally recited in eastern Ashkenazi communities on Shabbat Yitro and VaEtḥanan, the two Shabbatot where the Ten Commandments are read. Some also included it on the first day of Shavuot for the same reason. . . .

Categories: Shavuot, Parashat va'Etḥanan, Parashat Yitro

Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Decalogue, Light, מאורה meorah, פיוטים piyyutim

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi

🆕 אַדִּיר לֹא יָנוּם | Adir Lo Yanum — a Sefaradi piyyut for weddings and Torah-reading days

According to Joseph Judah Chorny’s On the Caucasian Jews, this acrostic piyyuṭ was customarily used as an epithalion before a wedding. He writes, “Before morning light, the bride is led to the groom’s house accompanied by many women and men, all carrying lit wax candles in their hands, and singing this song along the way.” Variants of this piyyut are found throughout the greater Sephardic world, generally in an abbreviated and slightly altered form. In Syria it is sung during the haqafot for Simḥat Torah, while in Livorno Sephardic practice (and subsequently in most Eastern Sephardic maḥzorim) it is a Shavu’ot piyyut. . . .

Categories: Shavuot, Engagements & Weddings, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), Parashat Yitro

Tags: phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, anti-soporific, epithalamion, Kavkazi Jewry, פיוטים piyyutim, stimulant, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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