 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A piyyut providing the 42 letter divine name as an acrostic, recorded in the work of Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A 42 Letter Divine Name acrostic piyyut to comfort someone in the process of dying. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The most well-known 42 letter divine name acrostic piyyut. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: An early printing of the 42 divine name letter acrostic piyyut, Ana b’Khoaḥ. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 52nd century A.M., acrostic, ספר הפליאה Sefer haPeliah, פיוטים piyyutim, protection, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, Byzantium, 14th century C.E., Prayers of redress, apotropaic prayers of protection The earliest recorded prayer or piyyut providing an acrostic for the 42 letter divine name. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A litany of angelic names recorded in Sefer HaQanah, whose initial letters spells out the 42 letter divine name as also found in Sefer haPeliah. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A litany of angelic names recorded in Sefer haPeliah whose initial letters spells out the 42 letter divine name as also found (in variation) in Sefer HaQanah. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: first fruits, 42 letter divine name, acrostic, anxiety, Divine name acrostic, Psalms 67, Raḥav, shalmah, labyrinth, a red ribbon, cyclical, walled cities, barley, captives, wheat, אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ Psalms 67 is a priestly blessing for all the peoples of the earth to be sustained by the earth’s harvest (yevulah), and it is a petition that all humanity recognize the divine nature (Elohim) illuminating the world. Composed of seven verses, the psalm is often visually depicted as a seven branched menorah. There are 49 words in the entire psalm, and in the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l there is one word for each day of the Sefirat haOmer. Similarly, the fifth verse has 49 letters and each letter can be used as a focal point for meditating on the meaning of the day in its week in the journey to Shavuot, the festival of weeks (the culmination of the barley harvest), and the festival of oaths (shevuot) in celebration of receiving the Torah. Many of the themes of Psalms 67 are repeated in the prayer Ana b’Koaḥ, which also has 49 words, and which are also used to focus on the meaning of each day on the cyclical and labyrinthine journey towards Shavuot. . . . |