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tag: שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The popular piyyut for welcoming the Shabbat, in Hebrew with translations in Assyrian-Aramaic and English. This is the Hebrew text of a teḥinah for Shalom Aleikhem intended for women lighting candles on the commencement of Shabbat and festival days as found on the last page in the Basel edition of the [collection of prayers entitled] Birkhat ha-Mazon (Basel: Waldkirch, 1600). The English translation is by Rabbi Dr. Morris M. Faierstein as published in “An Early Modern Version of Shalom Aleichem for Women after Friday Candle Lighting” in Women in Judaism, 19(2), on page 4. Categories: Tags: Angels, candle lighting, kindling, paraliturgical shalom aleikhem, שלום עליכם shalom aleikhem, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): This paraliturgical “Shalom Aleikhem” is as found in Rabbi David Einhorn’s עלת תמיד Gebetbuch für Israelitische Reform-Gemeinden (1858), p. 417. The English translation here, by Joshua Giorgio-Rubin, translating Rabbi David Einhorn, is as found in Rubin’s Olat Hadashah: A Modern Adaptation of David Einhorn’s Olat Tamid for Shabbat Evening (2020), pp. 13-14. This paraliturgical adaptation of the piyyut Shalom Aleikhem by Lise Tarlau (“Engelsgruß. (Scholaum alechem.)”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 85. The popular adjuration of the angels of peace and ministering angels, Shalom Aleikhem, in Hebrew with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig. These supplemental stanzas to the 1623 piyyut, “Shalom Aleikhem,” by Miriam Rubin, were offered on 9 January 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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