tagged: 3rd century C.E. • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ | Aleinu, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution)

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Aleinu

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3rd century C.E., Closing Prayers, חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), redemptive translation, revisionist translation, devotional interpretation, עלינו Aleinu, interpretive translation, Amoraic prayers, 40th century A.M.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of an abridged form of the prayer Aleinu in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

הֲבִינֵנוּ | Havinenu, a short form of the Amidah by Mar Shmuel bar Abba, adapted by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi from a paraphrasing by Rev. Joseph F. Stern

Contributor(s):

Joseph Frederick Stern, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Shmuel bar Abba

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Weekday Amidah

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40th century A.M., 3rd century C.E., devotional interpretation, Prayers in the Jerusalem Talmud, Private Amidah, Prayers of Nehardea, Nehardea, interpretive translation, abbreviated alternative formulas, עמידה amidah, weekday amidah, הביננו havinenu, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his adaptation of Rabbi Joseph F. Stern’s (East London Synagogue, ca. early 20th c.) adaptation of the “Havinenu,” short form of the Amidah in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Aleinu, translated by Rabbi David de Sola Pool (1937)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Sola Pool and Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution)

Categories:

Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Aleinu

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על כן נקוה al ken n'qaveh, Jewish identity, 40th century A.M., 3rd century C.E., חתימות ḥatimot (concluding prayers), מלכויות malkhuyot, censored prayers under Christendom, עדות witnessing, testament to divine reality, standing posture, עלינו Aleinu

The prayer, Aleinu, as read by Sepharadim, with an English translation by Rabbi David de Sola Pool. . . .

אסו ית ארסינואי | Two healing prayers for Arsinoë’s recovery (Amulets 80.AM.55.1 & 80.AM.55.2, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Roy Kotansky (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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Angels, Aramaic, Late Antiquity, קמעות ḳame'ot, 3rd century C.E., angelology, entering magical territory, Angels of Healing, 41st century A.M.

Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë . . .

סִילְקָא דְּרָב הוּנָא | Items for the Second Seder Plate: Beets, after the rabbinic teaching of Rav Huna (ca. 3rd c.)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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Symbolic Foods, Shulḥan Orekh

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symbolic foods, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, haggadah supplements, 3rd century C.E., beets, 41st century A.M.

The color of beets, which never leaves our hands, symbolizes the teachings of the sages, which are still passed down. And the redness symbolizes the blood of the covenant, still there after all these years. . . .