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כַּוָּנוֹתִי בְּשִׁיר הָאַהֲבָה | Kavvanah for Shir ha-Ahavah (Song of Love), by Mendel Roth

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Mendel Roth

This is Mendel Roth’s prayer upon sharing his Shirat ha-Ahavah (song of love). The text of the prayer was provided in the description to the video on Youtube. English translation of the pointed Hebrew by Aharon Varady. . . .

שבע ברכות | Sheva Brakhot, the seven blessings following the Birkat Mazon at a wedding meal

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

The text of the Sheva Brakhot from the birkon of Honi Sanders and Simona Dalin. . . .

Saturday Afternoon Request, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Contributor(s):

Rachel Barenblat

A prayer-poem supplication for the afternoon of Shabbat. . . .

שבע ברכות | The Seven Blessings over a Wedding (interpretive translation by Aharon Varady)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

A translation of the Seven Blessings shared just in time for Shavuot, and in honor of several of my friend’s weddings. . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eshet Ḥayil, amended by Alex and Peri Sinclair

Contributor(s):

Peri Sinclair, Alex Sinclair (emendation) and the Masoretic Text

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). . . .

הַנָּאוָה בַּבָּנוֹת | Hana’avah Babanōt, a song by Amitai Ne’eman (1955)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Amitai Ne'eman

The popular Israeli song from the 1950s. . . .

💬 שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים | Shir haShirim (The Song of Songs), English translation by Paltiel Birnbaum (1949)

Contributor(s):

Paltiel Birnbaum (translation) and the Masoretic Text

Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum’s translation of The Song of Songs (Shir haShirim) in Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem (The [Complete] Daily Prayer Book), Hebrew Publishing Company, 1949. . . .

אַיֵּךְ | Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1904)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ruth Nevo (translation) and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

The poem, Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. . . .

A Vision, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1850)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman

The poem, “A Vision” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was written November 1850 and first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 9:1, Nissan 5611/April 1851, p.31-33. . . .

Prayer on Kneading and Baking Ḥallot for Shabbat, by Perle Derbaremdiger Peretz (fl. 18th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Andrew Meit and Perle Derbaremdiger (Peretz)

A prayer upon preparing ḥallot for Shabbat. . . .

💬 זָכוֹר אֶת־יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ | Remember the Shabbat day to keep it holy, a reading for the first se’udah of Shabbat from the Zohar (parashat Yitro)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A reading from the Zohar providing context for the first meal of Shabbat on Friday evening. . . .

שָׁלוֹם לְךָ (לְבֶן) דּוֹדִי | Shalom Lekh (l’Ven) Dodi, by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.)

Contributor(s):

Honi Sanders (translation) and Shlomo ibn Gabirol

A piyyut presenting a dialogue between a couple and Hashem. . . .

סליחה מר׳ יצחק אבן גיאת | Seliḥah by Yitsḥaq ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyat (ca. 11th century) translated by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi

The following love poem is one of the Selihot recited between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Ibn Gayat (1038 – 1089) was not timid about using the most intimate symbols in asking God to become reconciled with us. . . .