tagged: שדים sheydim • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Life Sentence by Eprhyme

Contributor(s):

Eden Pearlstein

Categories:

Self-Reflection

Tags:

hip hop, שדים sheydim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish animism

‘Life Sentence’ is a poetic exploration of solitary authorship — interpreting the old-world literary tradition and archetypes for the ‘ADD’ generation. This is a boundary and genre-crossing work that exists at the intersection of Radical Jewish, Indy and Hip-Hop culture. . . .

גַּמָּדֵי לָיִל | Gnomes of the Night, a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (ca. 1894)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ben Aronin and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

Categories:

Tags:

creatures of the night, romanticism, where the wild things are, 19th century C.E., vilde ḥayye, שדים sheydim, whimsy, night, magical beings, modern hebrew poetry, entering magical territory, mythopoetic, evening spirits, 57th century A.M., animistic spirits, Jewish faeries

The poem “Gamodei Layil” (Gnomes of the Night) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, ca. 1894. . . .

מעשה טוביה ליום שני של שבועות | The Story of Toḇiyah for the second day of Shavuot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Megillot, Shavuot Readings

Tags:

Hebrew translation, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., tithing, apotropaic rituals of protection, Tobit, mysterious fish, Ashmodai, שדים sheydim, derivative work

The story of Toviah (Tobit) in Hebrew translation, in an abridged version arranged for public reading on the second day of Shavuot. . . .