tagged: Neḥemyah • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

אַתָּה־הוּא וְאָז יָשִׁיר (מקוצר)‏ | Atah Hu and a condensed Az Yashir, adapted and translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:26:27 +0000

Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
אַתָּה־ה֣וּא יְהוָה֮ לְבַדֶּךָ֒ את [אַתָּ֣ה] עָשִׂ֡יתָ אֶֽת־הַשָּׁמַיִם֩ שְׁמֵ֨י הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם וְכָל־צְבָאָ֗ם (נחמיה ט:ו חלק)	You, Yah, You, alone have made the heavens, The heavens beyond our heaven, All those that serve you there.^[1] Neḥemyah 9:6 partial
הָאָ֜רֶץ וְכָל־אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ הַיַּמִּים֙ וְכָל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּהֶ֔ם וְאַתָּ֖ה מְחַיֶּ֣ה אֶת־כֻּלָּ֑ם וּצְבָ֥א הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם לְךָ֥ מִשְׁתַּחֲוִֽים׃ (נחמיה ט:ו חלק)	Earth and all that is on her; The oceans, and all That they contain. The host of heaven bow to you, And you infuse them all with Life.^[2] Neḥemyah 9:6 partial
	[here give Tsedakah]
אַתָּה־הוּא֙ יְהוָ֣ה הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙ בְּאַבְרָ֔ם וְהוֹצֵאת֖וֹ מֵא֣וּר כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים וְשַׂ֥מְתָּ שְּׁמ֖וֹ אַבְרָהָֽם׃ וּמָצָ֣אתָ אֶת־לְבָבוֹ֮ נֶאֱמָ֣ן לְפָנֶיךָ֒ וְכָר֨וֹת עִמּ֜וֹ הַבְּרִ֗ית לָתֵ֡ת אֶת־אֶרֶץ֩ הַכְּנַעֲנִ֨י הַחִתִּ֜י הָאֱמֹרִ֧י וְהַפְּרִזִּ֛י וְהַיְבוּסִ֥י וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֖י לָתֵ֣ת לְזַרְע֑וֹ וַתָּ֙קֶם֙ אֶת־דְּבָרֶ֔יךָ כִּ֥י צַדִּ֖יק אָֽתָּה׃ (נחמיה ט:ז-ח)	You chose Avram. You brought him out of Ur, Of the Chaldees. You named him Av-raham, And found his heart To be trustworthy enough, To make a covenant with him.^[3] Neḥemyah 9:7-8
כְּהַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ (נחמיה ט:י חלק) וַיַּ֨רְא יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־הַיָּ֣ד הַגְּדֹלָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם (שמות יד:לא חלק)	On the day, when you saved us,^[4] Cf. end of Neḥemyah 9:10 Avraham’s children, from Mitsrayim, We saw how you dealt With Mitsrayim, With superior force.^[5] Cf. Exodus 14:31 partial
וַיִּֽירְא֥וּ הָעָ֖ם אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וַיַּֽאֲמִ֙ינוּ֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה וּבְמֹשֶׁ֖ה עַבְדּֽוֹ׃ (שמות יד:לא חלק)	We, the people, saw it, And we put our faith in You, Yah, And in Moshe, your servant.^[6] Cf. Exodus 14:31 partial
אָ֣ז יָשִֽׁיר־מֹשֶׁה֩ וּבְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָ֤ה הַזֹּאת֙ (שמות טו:א חלק) וַיַּֽאֲמִ֙ינוּ֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה (שמות יד:לא חלק) תְּבִאֵ֗מוֹ וְתִטָּעֵ֙מוֹ֙ בְּהַ֣ר נַחֲלָֽתְךָ֔ מָכ֧וֹן לְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛ פָּעַ֖לְתָּ יְהוָ֑ה מִקְּדָ֕שׁ אֲדֹנָ֖י כּוֹנְנ֥וּ יָדֶֽיךָ׃ (שמות טו:יז)	We sang then the great song.^[7] Cf. Exodus 15:1 And placed our trust in You,^[8] Cf. Exodus 14:31 partial To bring us, plant us, On the mountain sacred to You, The Place You established, To reside there, the sanctuary, That Your hands had set up for us.^[9] Exodus 15:17 partial
יְהוָ֥ה ׀ יִמְלֹ֖ךְ לְעֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד׃ (שמות טו:יח) יְהוָ֥ה ׀ יִמְלֹ֖ךְ לְעֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד׃	Yah, will reign there always.^[10] Exodus 15:18 Yah, will reign there always.
בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יִהְיֶ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֶחָ֖ד וּשְׁמ֥וֹ אֶחָֽד׃ (זכריה יד:ט)	On that day, Yah will be One. And, His Name, will be One.^[11] Zekharyah 14:9

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his adaptation of the liturgy for Az Yashir (Exodus 14:31, Exodus 15:1-18) with its verses of introduction from Neḥemyah 9:6-10 and its culminating verse from Zekharyah 14:9, in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his English translation side-by-side with these verses in Hebrew from Exodus and Neḥemyah. I have replaced anglicizations and removed capitalization for divine pronouns. –Aharon N. Varady

Source(s)

Notes

Notes
1	Neḥemyah 9:6 partial
2	Neḥemyah 9:6 partial
3	Neḥemyah 9:7-8
4	Cf. end of Neḥemyah 9:10
5	Cf. Exodus 14:31 partial
6	Cf. Exodus 14:31 partial
7	Cf. Exodus 15:1
8	Cf. Exodus 14:31 partial
9	Exodus 15:17 partial
10	Exodus 15:18
11	Zekharyah 14:9

Prayers for the Morning of Sigd: ወዐርጉ ፡ ደብር | Wäʿärəgu Däbərə (And They Climbed the Mount), in Ge’ez with vocalized Hebrew and English translation

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:55:08 +0000

Sigd is an Amharic word meaning “prostration” or “worship” and is the commonly used name for a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Jewish Beta Israel community on the 29th of the Hebrew month of Marḥeshvan. This date is exactly 50 days after Yom Kippur, usually falling out in late October or November, and according to Ethiopian Jewish tradition is also the date that God first revealed himself to Moses.

Sigd is a unique holiday. Originally only celebrated by the Ethiopian Jewish Beta Esrael community, it has gotten more traction recently. One could describe the key concept of Sigd as being the acceptance of the Torah — not the giving, but the receiving of it. Sigd is a holiday of the continuation of the covenant. No matter the persecution that the Beta Esrael suffered (and hoo boy, did they suffer), Sigd announced that they would preserve their Judaism through it all.

In the morning of Sigd, the community goes out to a mountain with the sacred Orit (the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth) and recites prayers and readings. The six prayers included here, largely compiled by Shoshana ben-Dor (former director of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry) and translated into English by Isaac Mayer, are the key pieces of morning liturgy for the holiday of Sigd. These are followed by readings from the Torah and the writings.

Wäʿärəgu Däbərə (And They Climbed the Mount) is the second prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd. It is the first prayer said upon arriving on the mountain, based on the ritual described in Neḥemyah 9.

Wäṣoru Tabotomu (They Carried Out Their Ark)
Wäʿärəgu Däbərə (And They Climbed the Mount)
Yitbärēk Egzi’äbḥer (Blessed be YHVH)
Hälē Hälē yebärkewo (Praise, Praise, Bless the One)
Ne’u Nesēgēdē (Come, Let Us Bow)
Menabērtē Bēytē Dawid (Thrones of David’s House)

This is part one of a series of Sigd readings in English, Hebrew, and Ge’ez transliteration that the editor will be posting here.

Translation (Hebrew)	Translation (English)	Source (Ge’ez)	Transliteration (Ge’ez)
וְעָלוּ‎ הָהָרָה בְּכׇל־שָׁנָה, וְעָלוּ‎ הָהָרָה בְּכׇל־שָׁנִים׃	And they went up the mountain for each year; And they went up the mountain for all years.	ወዐርጉ ፡ ደብር ፡ ለለዓመት፤ ወዐርጉ ፡ ደብር ፡ ለለዓመቱ ።	Wäʿärəgu däbərə läläʿamätə; wäʿärəgu däbərə läläʿamätu.
וְעָלוּ‎ הָהָרָה בְּכׇל־שָׁנִים, לְמַעַן יִסְגְּדוּ לַיהוה׃	And they went up the mountain for all years; So as to worship the Lord.	ወዐርጉ ፡ ደብር ፡ ለለዓመቱ፤ ከመ ፡ ይሰግዱ ፡ ለእግዚአብሔር ።	wäʿärəgu däbərə läläʿamätu; kämä yəsägədu läʾəgəziʾäbəḥerə.
וְעָלוּ‎ הָהָרָה בְּכׇל־שָׁנִים, וְקָרְאוּ‎ לִפְנֵי יהוה אֱלֹהֵיהֶם׃	And they went up the mountain for all years; and read out before the Lord their God.	ወዐርጉ ፡ ደብር ፡ ለለዓመቱ፤ ወጸርሑ ፡ ኀበ ፡ እግዚአብሔር ፡ አምላኮሙ ።	wäʿärəgu däbərə läläʿamätu; wäṣärəḥu ḫäbä ʾəgəziʾäbəḥerə ʾäməlakomu.
לְוִיִּים‎ בִּמְקוֹמוֹתֵיהֶם, לְוִיִּים‎ בְּמַעַמְדֵיהֶם׃	Levites in their places; Levites in their positions.	ሌዋዊያን ፡ በበ ፡ ምቅዋሞሙ፤ ሌዋዊያን ፡ በበ ፡ መዐርጎሙ ።	lewawiyanə bäbä məḳəwamomu; lewawiyanə bäbä mäʿärəgomu.
קַדְמִיאֵל סַטְרִיאֵל אַרְאָיָה, וְקָרְאוּ‎ לִפְנֵי יהוה אֱלֹהֵיהֶם׃	Ḳadmiel, Satriel, Arayah; and read out before the Lord their God.	ቀዳምያል ፡ ሰጣርኤል ፡ አርአያሃ፤ ወጸርሑ ፡ ኀበ ፡ እግዚአብሔር ፡ አምላኮሙ ።	ḳädaməyalə säṭarəʾelə ʾärəʾäyaha: wäṣärəḥu ḫäbä ʾəgəziʾäbəḥerə ʾäməlakomu.

Recordings

https://archive.org/download/waargu-devre/2-07-Wa%C4%80rgu-Devre.m4a

This recording from the National Sound Archives of Israel was published in (הליטורגיה של ביתא ישראל (נעימות התפילה של יהודי אתיופיה — The Liturgy of Beta Israel (Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer), a 2018 album by the Jewish Music Research Centre of Hebrew University.

Notes

Notes
1	Jewish Virtual Library, “Ethiopian Jewry: Sigd Holiday“