tagged: Ecclesiasticus • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
Shared on:	י״א בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-03)
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
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The end of the scroll of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) reconstructed from Cairo Geniza fragments not contained within the Septuagint. . . .

Wise Counsel: Selected verses from the Book of ben Sira for a Seliḥot Service by Paltiel Birnbaum

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
Shared on:	י״ט בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-07-11)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Second Temple Period
Tags:	2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria, wisdom, Cairo Geniza, מוסר mussar
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • Selected verses from the book of ben Sira for a Seliḥot service . . .

בן סירא מב:כא-מג:לא | ben Sira 42:21-43:31, a hymn of creation translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Mordecai Kaplan and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
Shared on:	ט׳ באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-07-21)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license
Categories:	Second Temple Period, Rosh Ḥodesh Readings
Tags:	hymns of creation, Openers, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • Ecclesiasticus (ben Sira) 42:21-43:31 is presented as “God the Lord of Nature” in The Sabbath Prayer Book of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (The Reconstructionist Foundation 1945), p. 376-372 in the Supplements subsection, “God in Nature.” The text of Ben Sira used here differs in places found in other manuscripts. . . .

מזמור לבן סירא על זכות אבותינו (פרקים מד-נ)‏ | Paean of Ben Sira on the Merit of the Ancestors (ch. 44-50), vocalized and cantillated with the Poetic Masoretic System by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira
Shared on:	כ״ז באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-20)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Second Temple Period, Yom Kippur
Tags:	2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., Classical Antiquity, deuterocanonical works, Ecclesiasticus, Jews of Alexandria, Cairo Geniza, Mar'eh Kohen
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The poem lauding the ancestors from Chapters 44 to 50 of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) is considered by many scholars to be the original influence for the Yom Kippur Avodah service, and the paean to Shimon the Righteous bears a striking similarity to the beloved piyyut “Mar’eh Khohen.” This passage from Ben Sira, the great paean on the merit of the ancestors, takes the Hebrew text of one of the Cairo Geniza manuscripts — Bodleian MS Heb e62 — and versifies it according to the standard Septuagintal text, along with vocalization and cantillation per the standard Masoretic EMe”T system for poetic books. It could be read on Yom Kippur for the avodah service, or just studied as a fascinating piece of Jewish history. . . .

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