tagged: אשת חיל eshet ḥayil • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

A Man of Value, by Debra Cash

Contributor(s):

Debra Cash

Categories:

Travel, Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

This version of Eyshet Ḥayil replaces valor with value, and while it speaks of man in terms of family, community, and the natural world, it is not heteronormative. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Peri Sinclair and Alex Sinclair

Categories:

Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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acrostic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Masorti, Modi'in, ישראל Yisrael, Feminism, role models, love, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, eros

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). . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Éshet Ḥayil (Proverbs 31:10-31) For an Accomplished Woman, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Unknown Author(s) and the Masoretic Text

Categories:

Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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זמירות zemirot, acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, devotional interpretation, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, interpretive translation

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive translation of Proverbs 31:10-31, popularly read before the first festive meal for shabbat on Friday night. . . .

אֵשֶׁת חַיִל | Eshet Ḥayil (Proverbs 31:10-31), German translation by Franz Rosenzweig (1921)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Franz Rosenzweig (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Mishlei (Proverbs), Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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German translation, German Jewry, Alphabetic Acrostic, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, 20th century C.E., acrostic, 57th century A.M.

The Masoretic Hebrew text of Proverbs 30:10-31, the alphabetic acrostic “Eshet Ḥayil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. . . .

מרת דולצא: אשת־חיל | Dulcea: A Woman of Valor, an elegy by Eleazar of Worms (ca. 1196)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ivan G. Marcus (translation) and Eleazar ben Yehudah ben Ḳalonymus of Worms

Categories:

Mourning

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elegy, firzogerin, 12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, חסידי אשכנז Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil

This an an untitled piyyut by Eleazer of Worms, eulogizing his beloved wife Dulcea (Heb: דולצא, also, Dulcia and Dolce). The Hebrew text is derived from the transcription offered by Israel Kamelhar inRabbenu Eleazar mi-Germaiza, ha-Roqeah (Rzeazow, 1930), pp. 17-19. The translation and annotation come from Dr. Ivan G. Marcus from his article, “Mothers, Martyrs, and Moneymakers: Some Jewish Women in Medieval Europe” in Conservative Judaism, vol. 38(3), Spring 1986. . . .

תהלים קי״ב | Psalms 112 (Ashrei Ish)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Se'udat Leil Shabbat

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gender roles, Alphabetic Acrostic, gender expression, role models, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, acrostic

Psalms 112 in Hebrew with English translation, arranged by Aharon Varady. . . .