A rhymed translation of the piyyut sung following the Havdallah ritual. . . .
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Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Lucas (translation) and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi
Shared on א׳ בניסן ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories:  Yom Kippur, Motsei Shabbat
Tags:  פיוטים piyyutim, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, הבדלות havdalot, rhyming translation, נעילה neilah
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alice Lucas (translation)
Shared on כ״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam 
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Ben-Zion Bokser
Shared on כ״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Maurice Farbridge, Louis Ginzberg and Jacob Kohn
Shared on כ״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam, ABBA rhyming scheme
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Morris Silverman
Shared on כ״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Marcus Jastrow (translation), Benjamin Szold and Shlomo ibn Gabirol
Shared on כ״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-03-12) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, אדון עולם Adon Olam
An English translation of an abridged arrangement of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Shared on ו׳ באדר ה׳תשפ״א (2021-02-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Purim
Tags: מגילת אסתר Megillat Esther, פיוטים piyyutim, Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, blessings following the shema, שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor 
The poem Mi Khamokha v-Ein Khamokha, an epic retelling of the book of Esther in verse, was written for Shabbat Zakhor, the Shabbat before Purim, by the great paytan Yehuda ben Shmuel haLevi. It was originally written as a “geulah,” meant to be inserted into the prayer after the Shema in place of the verse beginning with “A new song…” But later Sephardic poskim ruled that it was forbidden to insert piyyutim into the Shema blessings, so in the communities that recite it today it is generally either read after the Full Kaddish as an introduction to the Torah service, or (for instance, in most Spanish and Portuguese communities) within the verse “Kol atzmotai tomarna” in the Nishmat prayer. Wherever you include it in your service, it’s a beautiful and intricately rhymed piyyut, and surprisingly easy to understand at that. It is presented here in a gender-neutral translation with all the Biblical verses cited, alongside a new translation that preserves the fourfold acrostic, two alphabetical and two authorial. –Isaac Gantwerk Mayer . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Nina Salaman (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra
Shared on י״א בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Nittel Nacht
Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, Chess 
A medieval Jewish poem on the game of Chess by an anonymous author. . . . חֲרוּזִים עַל שְּׂחוֹק שָׁ״הּ־מָ״תּ | Rhymed Poem on Chess (long), by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.)
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Nina Salaman (translation), Thomas Hyde (Latin translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra
Shared on י״א בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2020-12-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Nittel Nacht
Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Chess, חרוזים ḥaruzim 
A poem on how to play chess, one of the oldest historical descriptions of the game of Chess, by Avraham ibn Ezra (12th century) . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ד׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Prayers During Public Readings of the Tanakh, Shavuot, Tishah b'Av, Pogroms & Genocide
Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., First Crusade, People's Crusade, Rhineland Massacres, prayers following pogroms 
A prayer for those martyred in the First Crusade and Rhineland Massacres, and by extension, all subsequent pogroms up until and including the Holocaust. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ben-Zion Bokser and Yishmael ben Elisha
Shared on ג׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Midrash Halakhah, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: Antiquity, 49th century A.M., 1st century C.E., exegetical rules, hermeneutics 
The thirteen exegetical rules by which halakhot from the Torah may be derived, according to Rebbi Yishmael, included with the preliminary prayers before the Psukei d’Zimrah/Zemirot of Shaḥarit. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Nina Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Shared on ט״ו בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., professional intention, prayers of healers 
The physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi in the 12th century CE. . . . Shared on כ״ד בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-20) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov, Se'udat Yom Shabbat
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, libi uv'sari An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Nina Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Shared on ט״ו בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Taḥanun, Purim Qatan, Motsei Shabbat
Tags: alienation, 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., dveykut, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka 
A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Cantor Hinda Labovitz and Meir ben Isaac Nehorai of Orléans
Shared on ד׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shavuot
Tags: acrostic, בהמות behemot, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, תרגום targum, Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature 
An Aramaic piyyut composed as an introduction to the reading of the Targum for the Torah reading on Shavuot. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Moses Gaster (translation) and David ben Elazar ibn Paquda
Shared on ג׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license 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 (translation), Dan Levene, Dalia Marx and Simḥah ben Shmuel of Vitry
Shared on כ״ג באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Incantations & Amulets, Bedtime Shema
Tags: danger, night, sleep, Angels, Before Sleep, Angelic Protection, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, apotropaic prayers of protection, Angels of Healing 
An “angels on all sides” formula included with the Bedtime Shema service in the Maḥzor Vitry. . . .
Contributor(s): Adam Zagoria-Moffet (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol
Shared on כ״ו באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Baqashot
Tags: acrostic, בקשות Baqashot, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Sefer Yetsirah
A piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol included in the arrangement of Baqashot before the morning service in the liturgical custom of Sefaradim. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Avraham ibn Ezra
Shared on ג׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Baqashot
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, cosmological, 49th century A.M., Sefer Yetsirah, קדיש ḳaddish
A popular piyyut for all occasions by Avraham ibn Ezra. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: interpretive translation, פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, אדון עולם Adon Olam
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive “praying translation” of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . .
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Asher (translation) and Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils
Shared on ט׳ בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Asarah b'Tevet
Tags: סליחות seliḥot, acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M.
“Ezkera Matsok” (I remember the distress) is a seliḥah in alphabetic acrostic recited on the Fast of Tevet in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ minhag Polin. . . . 
Contributor(s): Yosef ben Shlomo of Carcassonne, Girls in Trouble and Dr. Sara Reguer
Shared on י״ב בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-06-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Ḥanukkah, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, predation, Judith, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages 
“Odecha ki anafta bi (I give thanks to you although you were angry with me) was composed by Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne, who is dated to the first half of the eleventh century. This elegant and abstruse poem tells an epic tale of the Jews’ resistance to the decrees of Antiochus IV and includes accounts of both the Hasmonean bride and Judith. It bears a considerable resemblance to texts 4 and 12 of the Hanukkah midrashim[ref]See Grintz, Sefer Yehudit, pp. 205, 207–08[/ref] and this is evidence for the circulation of the joint Hasmonean daughter-Judith tales in the eleventh century, even if the surviving manuscripts of these stories are from a later date.” (Deborah Levine Gera, “The Jewish Textual Traditions” in The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines (2010).) . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Shared on כ״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-20) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udat Yom Shabbat
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature 
An interpretive translation of Yehudah haLevi’s shabbat song, “Yom Shabbaton.” . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Sola Pool (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ד במרחשון ה׳תש״פ (2019-11-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: Nusaḥ Sefaradi, פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
A rhyming translation in English to the popular piyyut, Adon Olam. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Shared on ט״ז בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Birkhot haShaḥar, Arvit l'Shabbat, Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: Nusaḥ Sefaradi, interpretive translation, פיוטים piyyutim, פתיחות Petiḥot, free translation, cosmological, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., חתימות Ḥatimot, ABCB rhyming scheme, rhyming translation, אדון עולם Adon Olam
A rhyming English translation of Adon Olam by Rosa Emma Salaman. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yehudah ben Hillel haLevi
Shared on י״ח בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (2021-01-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)
Tags: Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Alphabetic Acrostic, Public Amidah, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Cairo Geniza, קרובות ḳerovot, ethnobotany, עמידה amidah 
Ḳerovot for Tu biShvat, a celebration of Divine verdancy, which namedrops a stunning array of flora from throughout the land of Israel. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation) and Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo
Shared on ט׳ באדר ה׳תש״פ (2020-03-04) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Midrash Aggadah, Purim Readings
Tags: dreams, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., dragons, parabiblical aggadah, prophetic dreams 
The dream and prayer of Mordecai, and the prayer of Esther, as copied in the medieval pseudo-historical Chronicle of Yeraḥmiel. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi
Shared on ד׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ח (2017-09-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: interpretive translation, סליחות seliḥot, eros, פיוטים piyyutim, 11th century C.E., The Lovers, 49th century A.M., Granadan Jewry, Kingdom of Granada, Song of Songs, devotional interpretation 
The following love poem is one of the Selihot recited between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Ibn Gayat (1038 – 1089) was not timid about using the most intimate symbols in asking God to become reconciled with us. . . . |
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