tagged: Amoraic prayers • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

אֱלֹהַי נְשָׁמָה שֶׁנָּתַתָּ בִּי | Neshamah Shenatata Bi (the breath you have given me), interpretive translation by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags:	Late Antiquity, Body as Cosmos, Asiyah, Amoraic prayers, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, breathing, interpretive translation, neshamah, four worlds, devotional interpretation, English Translation, אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah, Breath
	This English translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l of “Neshama Shenatata Bi,” was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Linear associations of this translation according to the nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l by Aharon Varady. . . .

אֲשֶׁר יָצַר | Asher Yatsar, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Abayyé ben Kaylil
Categories:	Birkhot haShaḥar, Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags:	Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, Body as Temple, Prayers of Pumbedita, אדם קדמון Adam Ḳadmon, Body as Cosmos, devotional interpretation, interpretive translation, Asiyah, four worlds, Body as Earth, English Translation, Body as Society, Late Antiquity, Bathroom etiquette, excretion, plumbing as metaphor, internal plumbing, אשר יצר Asher Yatsar, Amoraic prayers, Bathroom Prayer
	This English translation of the prayer “Asher Yatsar” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Versification by Aharon Varady according to the nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l. . . .

נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי (ספרד)‏ | Nishmat Kol Ḥai, arranged by Aharon Varady

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Hallel, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags:	drought conditions, thanksgiving, rainfall, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, Late Antiquity, Crowning, Amoraic prayers, Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud
	The text of the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai in Hebrew with English translation. . . .

נִשְׁמַת כָּל חַי | Nishmat Kol Ḥai, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Hallel, Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
Tags:	Prayers in the Babylonian Talmud, drought conditions, thanksgiving, rainfall, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, interpretive translation, Late Antiquity, Crowning, Amoraic prayers
	This “praying translation” of the piyyut Nishmat Kol Ḥai is included in Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Sabbath Supplement to his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi ~ As I Can Say It (for Praying in the Vernacular) (2009). The translation includes several prayers that follow the piyyut: Ha-El B’ta’atsumot Uzekha, and Shoḥen Ad. . . .

ברכות התורה | Blessing for Torah Study, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Birkhot haTorah, Torah Study
Tags:	Amoraic prayers, Prayers before Torah Study, Tannaitic prayers, Antiquity, talmud torah, ecoḥasid, interpretive translation, devotional interpretation, English Translation, North America, Late Antiquity, Jewish Renewal
	This English translation of the blessing for Torah study by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Versification according to the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l by Aharon Varady. . . .

עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ | Aleinu, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Abba (Arikha) bar Aybo (traditional attribution)
Categories:	Aleinu
Tags:	Closing Prayers, Closers, redemptive translation, revisionist translation, devotional interpretation, עלינו Aleinu, interpretive translation, Amoraic prayers, 40th century A.M., 3rd century C.E.
	Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of an abridged form of the prayer Aleinu in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

העמידה לימות החל עם טעמי המקרא‎ | Weekday Amidah and Ḳaddish with Ta’amei haMiqra (cantillation), by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (Nusaḥ Ashkenaz)

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Paltiel Birnbaum (translation)
Categories:	Weekday Amidah, Ḳaddish
Tags:	Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, Amoraic prayers, cantillized liturgy
	The full Weekday Amidah (or Eighteen Blessings), according to Nusach Ashkenaz with optional additions for egalitarian rites or for within Israel, fully marked with ta’amei miqra (also known as cantillation marks or trope). Ta’amei miqra originally marked grammar and divisions in any Hebrew sentences, and older Hebrew manuscripts such as those from the Cairo Geniza often show ta’amei miqra on all sorts of texts, not just the Biblical texts we associate them with today. This text has the Eighteen Blessings (which number nineteen) of the weekday Amidah, and is suitable to use as a text for any standard weekday service. Note: this does not include any of the pre- or post-Amidah texts, such as Ashrei, Kriyat Shema, Tachanun, or Aleinu. It also doesn’t include additions for festivals, fast days, or the Days of Repentance. Those may be coming in the future, though! . . .

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