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tag: Alphabetic Acrostic Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? An original gender-neutral translation of the book of Lamentations, preserving the alphabetical acrostic through closest parallels to the Hebrew letter. Categories: Tags: 33rd century A.M., 6th century B.C.E., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, English Translation, Exilic Period, Five Megillot, lamentation Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive translation of Proverbs 31:10-31, popularly read before the first festive meal for shabbat on Friday night. 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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Ashrei in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Categories: Tags: Alphabetic Acrostic, אשרי Ashrei, Daily Hallel, devotional interpretation, divine abundance, interpretive translation, Poteaḥ et Yodekha, Psalms 145, satisfying the desire of all life, שפע shefa Contributor(s): A modern translation of the Ashrei in alphabetic parallel to the Hebrew. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation, Alphabetic Acrostic, אשרי Ashrei, תהלים Psalms, Psalms 145 Contributor(s): Why is Ashrei such a beloved part of the service? Partially it is because of its alphabetical structure, making it perfect for communal reading. This translation attempts to preserve this in an English equivalence. Ashrei, complete with introductory verses and a lost verse to complete the acrostic from the Chronicle of Gad the Seer. Psalms 145 in Hebrew with English translation. Psalms 112 in Hebrew with English translation, arranged by Aharon Varady. Categories: Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, gender expression, gender roles, men, Psalms 112, role models Contributor(s): Psalms 111, an alphabetic acrostic translated into English by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Psalms 25 in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009) for days on which Taḥanun is practiced after the morning Amidah. Categories: Tags: Alphabetic Acrostic, devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, loneliness, Psalms 25, social anxiety Contributor(s): The end of the scroll of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) reconstructed from Cairo Geniza fragments not contained within the Septuagint. Categories: Tags: 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Cairo Geniza, Classical Antiquity, Dead Sea Scrolls, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria, reconstructed text Contributor(s): This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ of the Birkat Ahavah (“Ahavah Rabah”) prayer before the Shema in Shaḥarit is found on pages 12 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). Categories: Tags: acrostic, אהבה רבה ahavah rabbah, Alphabetic Acrostic, blessings prior to the shema, Chinese translation, פיוטים piyyuṭim Contributor(s): This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ for the alphabetic acrostic piyyut “El Adon,” is found on page 8 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). A supplemental Hoshanot liturgy for Sukkot confessing a selection of humanity’s crimes against creation. Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, הקפות haḳafot, Hoshana Rabbah, הושענות hoshanot, North America Contributor(s): This is the first of four apocryphal psalms from the Cairo Geniza, MS RNL Antonin 798, vocalized and cantillated per Masoretic norms, and translated anew. The origin of these psalms (found in a few pages of an incomplete manuscript) is unclear, with earlier scholars suggesting a medieval pious forgery and more recent scholars suggesting an origin in or contemporaneous with the Qumran community. (In any case, no sign of them has been found in the Qumran scrolls, although some aspects of the Hebrew may suggest a relationship there.) The first psalm found in this partial manuscript is an acrostic psalm. It is incomplete at the beginning, missing the letters alef and bet. It also shows evidence of the Galilean dialect in the confusion between hei and ḥet, a guttural merger also found in Qumran texts and in Samaritan Hebrew. It largely focuses on the covenant with David and his rule. 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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is a Birkat ha-Mazon in the Ashkenazi nusaḥ incorporating a reconstruction of a liturgy for a Birkat haMazon for Shavuot witnessed in the Cairo Geniza fragment T-S H6.37 (page 4, recto and verso). Visit here, for a transcription and translation of the former (without the full Birkat ha-Mazon). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the early piyyut, “v-Yeètayu Kol l’Avdèkha,” as paraphrased in rhymed English verse by Israel Zangwill in Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler’s Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Yom haKippurim vol. 2 (1904), pp. 154-155. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Arkin” is one of two Aramaic piyyutim read by some Ashkenazi communities at the beginning of the Torah reading on the first day of Shavuot (the other being the Aqdamut). The piyyut makes reference to an important legend featuring Mosheh experiencing an ascent in which he must wrest the Torah from angelic entities that are averse to parting with it, or loathe to giving it up, to humanity. Introducing the piyyut she translated in Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity (Brill: 2018), Dr. Laura Lieber writes, “This [Shavuot] poem dramatizes neither the content of revelation, as other poems here do, nor the season of its giving, as the story of Ruth does. Instead, our poet imagines God’s summoning of Moses to the heavens to receive the Torah atop Mount Sinai. God’s voice is most prominent here, although the angels also speak; Moses, however, keeps silent, and the poet depicts him with anything but aggression and bravado. The poet crafts a scene that recreates the tension of the imagined encounter: God repeatedly reassures Moses, who fears angelic aggression, but the angels also express fear of Moses, who is here depicted as having horns, which God encourages Moses to use in self-defense.” Categories: Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Angelic Nature, Angelification, Angels, Aramaic, Decalogue, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, mid-first millennium CE, Mosheh Rabbenu, פיוטים piyyuṭim, תרגום targum Contributor(s): | ||
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