tagged: 50th century A.M. • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

שיר הכבוד (אַנְעִים זְמִירוֹת)‏ | Shir haKavod (An’im Zemirot), part eight of the Shir haYiḥud (interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)

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Musaf l'Shabbat

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acrostic, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., חסידי אשכנז Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod, שיר היחוד Shir haYiḥud

A “praying translation” of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . .

כִּי אֶשְׁמְרָה שַׁבָּת | Ki Eshmera Shabbat, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (rhyming translation by Israel Abrahams, 1914)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Abrahams and Avraham ibn Ezra

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Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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כי אשמרה שבת Ki Eshmerah Shabbat, זמירות zemirot, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., rhyming translation, 50th century A.M.

The piyyut and popular shabbat table song, Ki Eshmera Shabbat, in Hebrew with a rhyming translation. . . .

כִּי הִנֵּה כַּחֹֽמֶר | Ki Hineh Kaḥomer, rhymed translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Lucas (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Yom Kippur

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12th century C.E., 50th century A.M.

A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur. . . .

כִּי אֶשְׁמְרָה שַׁבָּת | Ki Eshmerah Shabbat, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra

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Se'udat Yom Shabbat

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, rhyming translation, 50th century A.M., כי אשמרה שבת Ki Eshmerah Shabbat

This translation of “Ki Eshmera Shabbat” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

אֱלֹהִים יִסְעָדֵנוּ | Elohim Yisadenu, a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra (trans. Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, 1857)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David de Aaron de Sola (translation) and Avraham ibn Ezra

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Se'udah haShlishit, Motsei Shabbat

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acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, 50th century A.M., זמירות zemirot

This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Elohim Yisadenu” by a paytan named Avraham (possibly Avraham ibn Ezra) was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .

שיר הכבוד (אַנְעִים זְמִירוֹת)‏ | Shir haKavod (An’im Zemirot), part eight of the Shir haYiḥud (translation by Israel Wolf Slotki)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Israel Wolf Slotki

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Musaf l'Shabbat

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12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., חסידי אשכנז Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod, שיר היחוד Shir haYiḥud, acrostic

A translation of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . .

קדיש יתום ליחיד | Mourner’s Ḳaddish for an Individual Without a Minyan (Sefer Ḥasidim, ca. 12-13th c.)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yehudah ben Shmuel of Regensburg

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Mourning, Ḳaddish

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13th century C.E., 50th century A.M., קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish, prayers of orphans, Without a Minyan, Needing Source Images

A mourner’s ḳaddish in the event there is no quorum. . . .

אֱלֹהִים בְּעָלֽוּנוּ | Elohim B’alunu — a seliḥah on the York massacre of 1190 by Joseph ben Asher of Chartres (trans. Isaac Gantwerk Mayer)

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yosef ben Asher (of Chartres)

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Khaf Sivan, Tishah b'Av

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קינות Ḳinnot, British Jewry, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., York Massacre of 1190, King Richard I, סליחות seliḥot, acrostic

This seliḥah poem, written by R. Joseph of Chartres, commemorates the martyrdom of approximately 150 Jews in Clifford’s Tower, York, England, in the year 1190. A summary of the events of 1190, sometimes referred to as “the English Masada,” can be found here. Like many medieval Jewish poems about massacres, Elohim B’alunu carefully treads the line between assuming guilt and declaring innocence. This poem, interestingly enough, directly calls out the person seen by R. Joseph of Chartres as ultimately responsible — the crusader King Richard Ⅰ. Beloved in Christian memory, this radical zealot of a king has a much darker, more horrific reputation among Jewish and Muslim groups. . . .

אֱמוּנֵי שְׁלוּמֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | Emunei Shlumei Yisrael — a seliḥah witnessing the Blois incident of 1171 by Hillel ben Yaaqov of Bonn

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Hillel ben Yaaqov of Bonn

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Khaf Sivan, Tishah b'Av

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acrostic, קינות Ḳinnot, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., Blois Incident of 1171, סליחות seliḥot

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. . . .

אֲבוֹתַי כִּי בָטְחוּ | Avotai ki vatkhu (“When our forefathers trusted”), a pizmon for the Fast of Tevet ascribed to Ephraim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaq of Regensburg (12th c.)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), David Asher (translation) and Ephraim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaq

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Asarah b'Tevet

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50th century A.M., acrostic, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, פזמונים pizmonim

A pizmon recited on the Fast of Tevet in the tradition of nusaḥ Ashkenaz. . . .

💬 הפטרה לחג השבועות ביום השני | Haftarah reading for the Second Day of Shavuot (Ḥabaquq 2:20-3:19) with its Targum and the piyyut Yetsiv Pitgam by Rabbeinu Tam (ca. 12th c.)

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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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Shavuot Readings, Ḥabaquq

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12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, transtropilation, הפטרות haftarot, rhyming translation, 50th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic translation, Aramaic, פיוטים piyyutim, יציב פתגם Yetsiv Pitgam, תרגום targum

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. . . .

אוֹי מֶה הָיָה לָנוּ | Oy Meh Haya Lanu (Oy What Has Happened to Us), by Barukh ben Shmuel of Mainz (ca. 12th c.)

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Rachel Salston (translation) and Barukh ben Shmuel of Mainz

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Tishah b'Av

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קינות Ḳinnot, Mourning this Broken World, 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., אוי oy

“Oy Meh Haya Lanu” is a ḳinah 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 ḳinah 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 ḳinah ends just as the megillah ends, with the four verses of pleas for redemption. . . .

עֵת שַׁעֲרֵי רָצוֹן | Eit Shaarei Ratson, a piyyut by Rabbi Yehuda ben Shmuel ibn Abbas (ca. 12th c.)

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Stephen Belsky and Yehudah ben Shmuel ibn Abbas

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

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12th century C.E., shofar blowing, Acrostic signature, 50th century A.M., שופר shofar, עקדת יצחק Akeidat Yitsḥaq

This is the piyyut, עֵת שַׁעֲרֵי רָצוֹן (Eit Shaarei Ratson) by Rabbi Yehuda ben Shmuel ibn Abbas (12th century Aleppo, Syria (born in Fez, Morocco)). The English translation presented here is by Rabbi Stephen Belsky. . . .