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תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem Even Boḥan (“Touchstone”) by Rabbi Qalonymus ben Qalonymus ben Meir (1322 C.E.)

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir, Steven Greenberg, Nir Krakauer (translation) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20) | Tags:

teḥinot, 51st century A.M., 14th century C.E., Even Boḥan, gender identity, shelo asani ishah, Needing Proofreading

This prayer of רבי קלונימוס בן קלונימוס Kalonymus ben Kalonymus that appears in his ספר אבן בוחן, יג Even Boḥan (§13), was first published in English translation by Rabbi Steven Greenberg in Wrestling with Gods and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press 2004) p.118-120, and online at Eshel to commemorate the International Transgender Day of Rememberance (on November 20). . . .

מעוז צור | Maoz Tsur, attributed to Mordecai ben Yitsḥak haLevi (adapted by R’ Joseph H. Hertz, trans. by Solomon Solis-Cohen)

Contributor(s): Solomon da Silva Solis-Cohen (translation), Joseph Herman Hertz and Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi
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Ḥanukkah | Tags:

piyyutim, British Jewry, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, Maoz Tsur, Mainz, post-Holocaust liturgical adaptations

Maoz Tsur as translated by Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, with Hebrew adapted in the first stanza by Joseph Herman Hertz, chief rabbi of the British Empire. . . .

בְּכִסְלֵו – מאבן בֹחן | On Kislev, from the poem Even Boḥan (“Touchstone”) by Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir (1322)

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir and Susan Weingarten
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Ḥanukkah, Kislev | Tags:

anti-predatory, dairy foods, 51st century A.M., Megillat Yehudit, 14th century C.E., the Rainbow, Megillat Antiokhus, Late Middle Ages, Even Boḥan

Before potatoes entered the diet of Ashkenazi Jews, latkes were cheese pancakes, or cassola, as described in “Even Boḥan” (Touchstone), a satyrical poem by Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir (b.1286-died after 1328). . . .

אשׂא למרחוק | Essa lameraḥoq by Aharon ben Yosef of Constantinople (13th c.), translated by Gabriel Wasserman

Contributor(s): Gabriel Wasserman, Aharon ben Yosef of Constantinople and Karaite Jews of America
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the Shabbat Service | Tags:

piyyutim, Qedushah, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Byzantium, Byzantine Empire, Karaism, Constantinople, the 7th Day, Acrostic signature

Source (Hebrew) Translation (English) אֶשָּׂא לְמֵרָחוֹק דֵּעִי אֲתַנֶּה | צִדְקוֹת אֵלִי וּמוֹשִׁיעִי בְּשֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים כִּלָּה כֹּל | מַלְכִּי וְרֹעִי קהל: וַיְבָרֶךְ אֱלֹהִים | אֶת יוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי. (בראשית ב:ג) I will speak my mind regarding [matters] long ago, I will declare the righteous deeds of my God and my rescuer: In six days He . . .

זמר לט״ו באב | Zemer for Tu b’Av, by Avraham ben Ḥalfon (ca. 12th c.)

Contributor(s): Abraham ben Ḥalfon and Nir Krakauer (translation)
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Tu b'Av | Tags:

tu b'av, Yemenite Jewry, 51st century A.M., zemer, 12th century C.E., Aden, Ayyubid Dynasty

This 12th century Yemenite liturgical poem for Tu b’Av is based on the Babylonian Talmud Taanit 30b-31a. . . .

מעוז צור | Maoz Tsur (Rock of Ages), singing translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi
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Ḥanukkah | Tags:

piyyutim, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Acrostic signature, High Middle Ages, Maoz Tsur, Mainz

A singing translation of the popular piyyut (devotional poem), “Maoz Tzur,” by Reb Zalman for Ḥanukkah. . . .

הגדה לסדר פסח | The Ritual of the Seder and the Agada of the English Jews Before the Expulsion (1287)

Contributor(s): Dávid Kaufmann
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Seder Pesaḥ, Essays, Documents, Art, and Craft, Liturgical traditions | Tags:

English Jewry, 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Nusaḥ Anglia

Jacob b. Jehuda of London, the author of that valuable contribution to the literary side of Anglo-Jewish history, the Talmudical compendium Etz Chaim, so providentially rescued and preserved for us, never dreamt, when he noted down, in the year 1287, the Ritual and Agada of the Seder Nights according to English usage, that he was fixing a permanent picture of what was doomed to destruction, and was recording not a mere portion of the liturgy, but a page of Jewish history. Faithfully copying his great prototype, Maimonides, the English Chazan also embodied in his work the texts of the Recitations on the Seder Nights in the form customary among his countrymen, and appended the correlated rites according to Minhag England. . . .

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