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

A Prayer before Candle-lighting, by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Contributor(s):

Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Categories:

Shavuot, Erev Pesaḥ, Erev Shabbat, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

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Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, Light, 21st century C.E., potential, 58th century A.M., fire, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, English poetry

Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . .

תחנה פון ליכט בענטשין | Tkhine for Lighting Candles [for Shabbes]

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Erev Shabbat

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fire, kindling, תחינות tkhines, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution

This is a faithful transcription of the תחנה פון ליכט בענטשין (“Tkhine for Lighting Candles [for Shabbes]”) as it appeared in the Vilna, 1869 edition. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. If you can scan an image of the page from the 1869 edition this was originally copied from, please share your scan with us. . . .

Kuando el rey Nimrod (When Nimrod was King), a song relating the story of Avraham & the Furnace (ca. 1890)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Translator(s) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Se'udat Yom Shabbat

Tags:

19th century C.E., fire, זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M., Avraham Avinu, Ladino vernacular prayer, Morocco, the Furnace

The sephardic folk-song “Kuando el rey Nimrod” in Ladino with English translation. . . .