Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Yaaqov ben Meir, Yonatan ben Uziel, the Masoretic Text and Ḥabaquq haNavi
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Categories:  Ḥabaquq, Shavuot Readings
Tags:  acrostic, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, תרגום targum, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, transtropilation, הפטרות haftarot, rhyming translation, 50th century A.M., Acrostic translation, יציב פתגם Yetsiv Pitgam 
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. . . .
A medieval Jewish poem on the game of Chess by an anonymous author. . . .
A poem on how to play chess, one of the oldest historical descriptions of the game of Chess, by Avraham ibn Ezra (12th century) . . .
The physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi in the 12th century CE. . . .
An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. . . .
A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Moses Gaster (translation) and David ben Elazar ibn Paquda
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Categories: Shavuot
Tags: Nusaḥ Sefaradi, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, theophany, Har Sinai, Decalogue, התורה the Torah, Azharot 
A poetic introduction to the Azharot of Solomon ibn Gabirol read in the afternoon of Shavuot by Sefaradim. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Translator(s) and Avraham ibn Ezra
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Categories: Baqashot
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 12th century C.E., cosmological, 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Sefer Yetsirah, קדיש ḳaddish, רשות reshut, אגדלך Agadelkha 
A popular piyyut for all occasions by Avraham ibn Ezra. . . .
A translation of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . .
A pizmon recited on the Fast of Tevet in the tradition of nusaḥ Ashkenaz. . . .
“Oy Meh Haya Lanu” is a kinah traditionally recited on the night of Tisha b’Av directly after the reading of Eikha. According to the Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot, it is number 1 of 50. The title is the refrain of the poem, a reflective lament. This kinah is based on the fifth and final chapter of Eikha, taking the opening phrase of each line of the megillah as the first line of each couplet and poetically expanding the description for the second. This translation is an attempt to convey the vulgarity and horror of the paytan’s depiction of the destroyed Jerusalem in vernacular English. The kinah ends just as the megillah ends, with the four verses of pleas for redemption. . . .
This 12th century Yemenite liturgical poem for Tu b’Av is based on the Babylonian Talmud Taanit 30b-31a. . . .
Contributor(s): Sara Lapidot (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra
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Categories: Baqashot
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., cosmological, 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Sefer Yetsirah, קדיש ḳaddish, רשות reshut, אגדלך Agadelkha
The piyyut, Agadelkha, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
A “praying translation” of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . .
Some Jewish communities, especially those in the region of the Four Lands, have a custom of fasting on the 20th of Sivan. This day has a full seliḥot service, commemorating a series of horrors that occurred on that day, most prominently the Chmielnicki (Khmielnetsky) massacres of 1648-49. But this poem was written for another horrific occurrence on 20 Sivan, the blood libel of Blois in 1171. This was the first time the accusation of ritual murder was ever made against the Jews of France, but it wasn’t the last. This seliḥah poem, written by Hillel ben Jacob of Bonn, starts with the dramatic accusation that God has abandoned the people Israel, continuing by listing those who died in myriad horrid ways, and ending with several citations from the apocalyptic final chapter of the book of Joel. . . .
A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur. . . .
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