A Hoshana prayer supplement for Hoshana Rabbah during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in 2020. . . .
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Contributor(s): Shlomo Zuckier
Shared on כ״א בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Hoshana Rabbah, Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags:  acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, COVID-19 coronavirus, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Needing Vocalization
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Asher (translation) and Saadiah ben Yosef Gaon
Shared on ג׳ בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (2020-09-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Tsom Gedalyah
Tags: סליחות seliḥot, acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, 47th century A.M., 10th century C.E. 
A seliḥah for the Fast of Gedalyah, attributed to Rav Saadia Gaon. . . . Shared on כ״ז באייר ה׳תשע״ט (2019-06-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: 20th century C.E., acrostic, days of awe, 58th century A.M., Acrostic signature, ישראל Yisrael, Needing Translation (into English), Needing citation references, Needing Vocalization Loading . . . 
Contributor(s): Raysh Weiss and Gabbai Seth Fishman (translation)
Shared on ג׳ בתשרי ה׳תש״פ (2019-10-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Rosh Hashanah
Tags: acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Acrostic signature 
A 21st century recasting of the iconic 13th century Spanish mystical Rosh haShanah piyyut. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״א באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Acrostic signature, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket 
This acrostic poetic form of Birkat haMazon was written for the se’udah mafseqet (pre-fast meal) before Yom Kippur, in the manner of the poetic Birkat haMazon variants recorded in the Cairo Geniza. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״ט באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Behemah
Tags: acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Acrostic signature 
This is a poetic text for Birkat haMazon, signed with an alphabetical acrostic and the name of the author, to be recited on the first of Elul. It celebrates the variety of God’s creation as exemplified by the natural diversity of species, as well as alluding to the livestock tithes traditionally assigned on the first of Elul. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Shared on י״ג באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, ציון Tsiyon, Classical Antiquity, Dead Sea Scrolls 
The Apostrophe to Zion is an alphabetical acrostic poem, directed at Zion in the second person. It has been found in multiple locations in Qumran, including the Great Psalms Scroll 11QPsa as well as another fragmentary scroll in 4Q88. It was considered a regular part of their psalmodic canon. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on ט׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Blessings After Eating, Tisha b'Av
Tags: acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, סעודה המפסקת seudah hamafseket 
A Birkat haMazon with additions for the pre-Fast meal of Tisha b’Av . . . 
Contributor(s): Joseph B. Meszler (translation) and Binyamin Holtzman
Shared on ט׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ה (2014-10-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui, Maale Gilboa, acknowledgment, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, ישראל Yisrael 
A complementary (positive vidui) to supplement the harsh communal and personal vidu’im (confessions) being offered during the Zman Teshuvah. . . . 
Contributor(s): Avi Weiss
Shared on כ״ז באלול ה׳תשע״ו (2016-09-29) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, North America, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., New York, Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, Open Orthodoxy, positive self-recognition, supplemental vidui, complementary vidui 
Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez writes, “Rav Avi spoke to us a few times as he was working through [composing] this [vidui] and I am truly moved by it. Let us not only remember and confess our wrong doings, but also what we did right this year.” . . . 
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): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (naqdanut)
Shared on כ״ט באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shavuot, Blessings After Eating
Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Cairo Geniza 
A Birkat haMazon for Shavuot presenting an alphabetic acrostic from a manuscript preserved in the Cairo Geniza. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (naqdanut) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
Shared on י״א בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria, Cairo Geniza, reconstructed text, Dead Sea Scrolls 
The end of the scroll of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) reconstructed from Cairo Geniza fragments not contained within the Septuagint. . . . 
Contributor(s): Daniel Olson and Benjamin Goldberg
Shared on א׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tisha b'Av, Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags: acrostic, קינות Ḳinnot, Alphabetic Acrostic, COVID-19 coronavirus, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, אלי ציון Eli Tsiyon 
An adaptation of the kinnah, “Eli Tsiyon v’Ar’eha,” Composed for Tisha B’Av 5780 in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. . . . 
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), Rabbi Sam Seicol and Elazar ben Moshe Azikri
Shared on י״ט בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: acrostic, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 15th century C.E., Divine name acrostic, 52nd century A.M. 
A variation of the piyyut “Yedid Nefesh” in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Abe Katz (translation) and Isaac Goldstein
Shared on י״ח בשבט ה׳תשע״ב (2012-02-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th)
Tags: 19th century C.E., United States, acrostic, Presidents Day, emancipation, קינות Ḳinnot, civil rights, 57th century A.M., Memorial prayers, Abraham Lincoln, American Jewry of the United States, Prayers for leaders, elegies 
Exalted are you Lincoln. Who is like you! You were highly respected among Kings and Princes. All that you accomplished you did with a humble spirit. You are singular and cannot be compared to anyone else. Who among the great are like Lincoln? Who can be praised like you? . . . 
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ד בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: acrostic, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 15th century C.E., Divine name acrostic, 52nd century A.M. 
A variation of the piyyut “Yedid Nefesh” in Hebrew with English translation. . . .
Contributor(s): Shaul Vardi (translation), Levi Weiman-Kelman and Shlomo haLevi Al-Qabets
Shared on י״ד בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-02-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat
Tags: שבת shabbat, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi
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Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Israel Wolf Slotki
Shared on כ״ח בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-25) — under the following terms: Fair Use Right (17 U.S. Code §107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use) Categories: Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: acrostic, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod, שיר היחוד Shir haYiḥud 
A translation of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . . 
Contributor(s): Joel Goldstein (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ז׳ באדר ה׳תשע״ה (2015-02-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tisha b'Av
Tags: acrostic, קינות Ḳinnot, Alphabetic Acrostic, אלי ציון Eli Tsiyon 
One of the most well-known of the kinot (liturgical poems for mourning), Eli Tsiyon v’Areha is an alphabetical acrostic describing the destruction of Jerusalem. It is recited towards the conclusion of ḳinot, due to the hopeful note in the comparison of Zion to a woman about to give birth, thought by many to be a messianic reference. The author of the work is unknown. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ה בתשרי ה׳תשע״ח (2017-10-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Dying, Birkhot haShaḥar, Slavery & Captivity
Tags: interpretive translation, acrostic, Jewish Renewal, פיוטים piyyutim, Philadelphia, אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, singing translation, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, devotional interpretation 
The most well-known 42 letter divine name acrostic piyyut. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and the Masoretic Text
Shared on י״ג באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-02-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150)
Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, הללו־יה hallelu-yah, Psalms 111 
Psalms 111, an alphabetic acrostic translated into English by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ג בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150)
Tags: acrostic, gender roles, Alphabetic Acrostic, Eyshet Ḥayil, gender expression, male role models 
Psalms 112 in Hebrew with English translation, arranged by Aharon Varady. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), David Asher (translation) and Ephraim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaq
Shared on ט׳ בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Asarah b'Tevet
Tags: acrostic, 12th century C.E., Acrostic signature, pizmonim, 50th century A.M.
A pizmon recited on the Fast of Tevet in the tradition of nusaḥ Ashkenaz. . . .
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (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): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Masorti Movement in Israel and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ה באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: Nusaḥ Sefaradi, סליחות seliḥot, acrostic, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, pizmonim 
A pizmon in the nusaḥ hasepharadim recited at Seliḥot during the monh of Elul and Yom Kippur. . . . 
Contributor(s): Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater
Shared on ט׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ט (2018-09-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Yom Kippur
Tags: וידוי vidui, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, confession, על חטא Al Ḥeyt, communal confession, paraliturgical vidui, paraliturgical Al Ḥet 
The Al Cheyt (literally meaning “For the sin…”) is a confessional litany recited on Yom Kippur. It is an alphabetical acrostic; each one of its verses starting with a successive letter of the aleph-beit, to represent not only the moral failings that are specifically enumerated there, but the fullness of every way in which we missed the mark in the previous year. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ה באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Antiquity, apocryphal psalms, Psalms 151, Judaean Desert Scrolls 
Psalm 155 is an incomplete acrostic (the Dead Sea Scrolls text records it going from ב to נ, and the Syriac can be reconstructed to include up to פ) with similarities to petitionary psalms like Psalm 3, 22, and 143. It is unclear why it was not included in the Masoretic canon, but one can hazard a guess that it was just not familiar to the compilers. . . . 
Contributor(s): Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair
Shared on ז׳ בשבט ה׳תשע״ב (2012-01-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat
Tags: Feminism, love, eros, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Eyshet Ḥayil, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael 
Peri and Alex Sinclair’s adaptation of the traditional Eishet Ḥayil, replacing a number of verses with ones selected from Shir haShirim (the Song of Songs/Canticles), Genesis, and elsewhere in Mishlei (Proverbs). . . . 
Contributor(s): Neria Haroeh (translation), Karaite Jews of America and Elyaqim haPayyetan
Shared on כ״ח באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Motsei Shabbat
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, הבדלות havdalot 
A zemirah for havdallah by an otherwise unknown rabbinic payyetan known only by his signature acrostic. . . . 
Contributor(s): Dalia Marx and Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Shared on כ״ד בתשרי ה׳תשע״ו (2015-10-06) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Sukkot, Hoshana Rabbah
Tags: acrostic, Hoshana Rabbah, hoshanot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Haqafot, ישראל Yisrael 
A supplemental hoshana (prayer for salvation) for healing and consolation for the sake of true love, needed blessings, rainfall in a timely fashion, paths and their repair, mountains and their crossing, goals and objectives, lasting memories, good dreams, cosmic goodness, etc. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Elazar ben Moshe Azikri and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ׳ במרחשון ה׳תשע״ה (2014-11-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: 20th century C.E., interpretive translation, acrostic, Jewish Renewal, פיוטים piyyutim, בקשות Baqashot, פתיחות Petiḥot, ידיד נפש Yedid Nefesh, 15th century C.E., ecoḥasid, Divine name acrostic, 52nd century A.M. 
Yedid Nefesh is a piyyut of uncertain authorship. Rabbi Elazar Moshe Azikri (1533-1600) included the piyyut in his Sefer Haḥaredim (1588). (The images below are of pages with Yedid Nefesh handwritten by Azikri.) A version of the piyyut “with noteworthy text, spelling and pointing” may be found on folio 146 (verso) of Samuel b. David b. Solomon’s Commentary On the Book of Numbers (ca. 1437 CE, see Stefan C. Reif, The Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Libraries: A Description and Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 93). Presumably, this text was added to the 15th century manuscript sometime in the 17th century after the popularization of Yedid Nefesh. The piyyut has since appeared with a number of variations in various siddurim. . . . 
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: Shaḥarit l'Shabbat
Tags: interpretive translation, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, heikhalot literature, Alphabetic Acrostic, Geonic prayers, Yotser Ohr, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah 
The piyyut, El Adon, in Hebrew with an interpretive “praying translation” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom, z”l. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
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: Musaf l'Shabbat
Tags: acrostic, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 50th century A.M., Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, שיר הכבוד shir hakavod, שיר היחוד Shir haYiḥud
A “praying translation” of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak Luria
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: Se'udah Shniyah
Tags: interpretive translation, זמירות zemirot, acrostic, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature 
An interpretive translation in English of the shabbes hymn Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . . 
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'udah Shniyah
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.” . . . 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, Se'udah Shniyah
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), Nir Krakauer (translation) and Isaiah Horowitz
Shared on ז׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ט (2018-12-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Dying
Tags: acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, ascent, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, אל ברוך El Barukh, between life and death 
A piyyut providing the 42 letter divine name as an acrostic, recorded in the work of Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Masoretic Text and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
Shared on כ״ט בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Ashrei
Tags: acrostic, Psalms 145, Alphabetic Acrostic, תהלה tehillah 
Ashrei, complete with introductory verses and a lost verse to complete the acrostic from the Chronicle of Gad the Seer. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ו באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Contemplation
Tags: acrostic, Angels, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, angelology, ספר הפליאה Sefer haPeliah 
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): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ט באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Contemplation
Tags: acrostic, Angels, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, angelology, ספר הקנה Sefer haQanah 
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): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Nir Krakauer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ט׳ בטבת ה׳תשע״ט (2018-12-16) — under the following terms: Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works) Categories: Dying, Imminent Communal Danger & Distress
Tags: acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, protection, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic, Byzantium, 14th century C.E., Prayers of redress, apotropaic prayers of protection, 52nd century A.M., ספר הפליאה Sefer haPeliah 
The earliest recorded prayer or piyyut providing an acrostic for the 42 letter divine name. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), the Masoretic Text and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
Shared on ז׳ בסיון ה׳תשע״ט (2019-06-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Ashrei
Tags: acrostic, Psalms 145, אשרי Ashrei, Alphabetic Acrostic, Poteaḥ et Yodekha, Daily Hallel 
Psalms 145 in Hebrew with English translation. . . . 
Contributor(s): Jonah Rank and Fradji Sawat
Shared on י״ז בניסן ה׳תשע״ט (2019-04-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Leil Pesaḥ
Tags: acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Béja, Tunisia 
A (kosher-for-Passover) prayer for redemption from exile. . . . 
Contributor(s): Len Fellman (translation) and Avraham Maimin
Shared on כ״ו באייר ה׳תשע״ט (2019-05-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udah Shlishit
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, Acrostic signature, prayers of kabbalists, shaleshudes 
The mystical piyyut of Avraham Maimin, a student of Moshe Cordovero, translated by Len Fellman. . . . 
Contributor(s): Karaite Jews of America and Ya'aqov ha-Paitan
Shared on י״ט באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udah Shniyah, Se'udah Shlishit
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Acrostic signature, Needing Attribution 
A song for celebrating the Shabbat. . . . 
Contributor(s): Akiva Sanders (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ד׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״פ (2019-12-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Shavuot, Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah)
Tags: זמירות zemirot, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, הקפה ד׳ fourth haḳafah 
A popular piyyut for Simḥat Torah (4th hakkafah) originally composed as a piyyut for Shavuot and often referred to by its incipit, “Mipi El.” . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Abe Katz (translation) and Ḳ.Ḳ. Beit Shalome
Shared on כ״ז בשבט ה׳תשע״ב (2012-02-19) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Government & Country, Inauguration Day (January 20th), Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February)
Tags: United States, acrostic, Presidents Day, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Western Sepharadim, George Washington, American Jewry of the United States, Prayers for leaders 
The following prayer for the government was composed by Congregation Beth Shalome in Richmond, Virginia in 1789. Please note the acrostic portion of the prayer in which the initial letters of the succeeding lines form the name: Washington. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation), Eden Pearlstein and Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit
Shared on כ״ז בכסלו ה׳תשע״ו (2015-12-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Art & Craft, Yotser Ohr
Tags: hip hop, acrostic, Aleph-Bet, animation, otiyot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Prayers as poems, English piyyutim, Sefer Yetsirah, אל ברוך El Barukh, rap 
A song by Darshan including the alphabetic acrostic piyyut, El Barukh, part of the morning Yotser Ohr blessing made prior to the Shema at the official beginning of the Shaḥarit service. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ב באייר ה׳תשע״ב (2012-05-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Pesaḥ, Ḥanukkah, Shavuot, Tehilim Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), Shabbat, Sukkot, Sefirat ha'Omer, Slavery & Captivity
Tags: acrostic, labyrinth, cyclical, barley, wheat, first fruits, anxiety, Psalms 67, raḥav, shalmah, a red ribbon, walled cities, captives, אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic
Psalm 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 Psalm 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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on ט״ו באייר ה׳תשע״ז (2017-05-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories: Pesaḥ Sheni
Tags: acrostic, English Translation, North America, פיוטים piyyutim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
A piyyut for an under-recognized holiday, Pesaḥ Sheni, the festival of second chances (as described in Numbers 9:6-13 and Mishnah Pesaḥim 9:1-3. I attempted to write this in the manner of a traditional piyyut. The meter is equivalent to the Shabbat zamir “Ot Hi l’Olmei Ad.” The Hebrew spells out Yod – Tzadi – Ḥet – Kuf, because that’s my name. The translation is original, along with the notes. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Isaac ben Shem Tov Cavallero
Shared on י״ז באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״ט (2019-03-24) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Dying, Birkhot haShaḥar, Slavery & Captivity
Tags: acrostic, Spanish Translation, 16th century C.E., 54th century A.M., אנא בכח Ana b'Khoaḥ, 42 letter divine name, Divine name acrostic 
An early printing of the 42 divine name letter acrostic piyyut, Ana b’Khoaḥ. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rabbi Sam Seicol, the Masoretic Text and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
Shared on י״ז באב ה׳תשע״ז (2017-08-09) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Ashrei
Tags: תהלים Psalms, acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Psalms 145, אשרי Ashrei, Alphabetic Acrostic, Acrostic translation 
A modern translation of the Ashrei in alphabetic parallel to the Hebrew. . . . 
Contributor(s): Gabriel Wasserman, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Shared on ב׳ באב ה׳תשע״ג (2013-07-08) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Blessings After Eating, Tu b'Av, Tisha b'Av
Tags: acrostic, שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu, ט״ו באב tu b'av, Alphabetic Acrostic, Acrostic signature 
Supplemental prayers for the Birkat Hamazon on Tisha b’Av, Tu b’Av, and Shabbat Naḥamu by Gabriel Wasserman . . . |
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