tagged: Yemenite Jewry • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

מַא כְׄבַּר הַדִׄה | Ma Khəbar Hādhih, a Yemenite Judeo-Arabic Elaboration on the Four Questions

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Categories:	Magid
Tags:	Yemenite Jewry, Four Questions
	In Yemenite practice, directly after the four questions are recited the youngest literate person at the table reads a brief Judeo-Arabic passage, here transcribed per the Yemenite transliteration system (wherein gimel dagesh = j and qof = g) and translated into Arabic and Hebrew. Instructional notes say this passage is “for the benefit of women and toddlers,” the two main classes of people who would have not had access to Hebrew education at the time. . . .

Announcement of the Count of Years since the Destruction of the (First) Temple, from the Yemenite Baladi-Rite (Tikhlal Ets Ḥayyim of Yiḥya Tsalaḥ)

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yiḥya Tsalaḥ
Categories:	Tishah b'Av
Tags:	Yemenite Jewry, declarations, nusaḥ baladi
	Many communities have a custom of announcing on the night of 9 Av the years since the destruction of the Temple. The Yemenite rite is unique in that it announces both the years since the destruction of the second, but also the years since the destruction of the first, in this poetic form recited after the conclusion of the evening kinnot. Why? Because the Yemenite community traced its origins back to the destruction of the first temple, claiming not to have returned under Ezra. Here the original Hebrew text is included along with a new translation and a transcription in the Yemenite pronunciation style. . . .

תרומה הבדילנו | T’rumah Hivdilanu (A Gift Distinguished Us) — A Poetic Ḳiddush for the Pesaḥ Seder, according to two of its nusḥaot (ca. 9th c.)

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Categories:	Ḳadesh
Tags:	קידוש ḳiddush, Yemenite Jewry, Geonic prayers, 9th century C.E., 47th century A.M., Needing Source Images
	Rav Saadia Gaon lists three additions to the Seder Pesaḥ which he considers not necessary, but acceptable. This is the first, a poetic version of the Kiddush. Interestingly enough, it is still recited in many Yemenite communities, which are in general less likely to incorporate poetic sections to their liturgy. Here it is recorded and translated into English according to two nusḥaot — that recorded in the siddur of Rav Saadia (marked in blue), and that recorded in modern Yemenite texts (marked in red). In cases where only the spelling differs rather than the meaning, the editor generally went with Rav Saadia as the older variant. . . .

זמר לט״ו באב | Zemer for Tu b’Av, by Avraham ben Ḥalfon (ca. 12th c.)

Contributor(s):	Abraham ben Ḥalfon and Nir Krakauer (translation)
Categories:	Tu b'Av
Tags:	12th century C.E., Aden, Ayyubid Dynasty, ט״ו באב tu b'av, Yemenite Jewry, 51st century A.M., zemer
	This 12th century Yemenite liturgical poem for Tu b’Av is based on the Babylonian Talmud Taanit 30b-31a. . . .

כַּוָּנָה לִפְנֵי עֲבוֹדָה בְּאַדְמַת הַקֹּדֶשׁ | Kavvanah before working with the holy soil of Erets Yisrael, by Rabbi Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi (ca. 1911)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Daniel Landau (translation) and Shalom Ḥayyim Sharabi
Categories:	Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Planting, Ḥag haNətiōt (Planting Day Festival)
Tags:	Yemenite Jewry, Jewish Farming, Problematic prayers, Prayers for Planting, Early Religious Zionist, 20th century C.E., Yemenite Aliyah, farming, Shami, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 57th century A.M.
	A kavvanah for focusing one’s intention before working with the soil of Erets Yisrael. . . .

אתה גאלת | Atah Ga’alta (You Redeemed Our Ancestors), a Poetic Rendition of the Blessing of Redemption in the Pesaḥ Seder (ca. 9th c.)

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Categories:	Magid
Tags:	Geonic prayers, 9th century C.E., 47th century A.M., Mizraḥi Jewry, acrostic, Yemenite Jewry, Alphabetic Acrostic, Needing Source Images
	Rav Saadia Gaon lists three additions to the Seder Pesaḥ which he considers not necessary, but acceptable. This is the third, a poetic insert of the blessing of redemption known as Ata Ga’alta. In the form of an alphabetical acrostic, this poem is still recited in many eastern communities including the Babylonians, Persians, and Yemenites, and was a feature of the the old Kaifeng rite. Here it is recorded and translated into English according to the nusaḥ of Saadia Gaon, with notes in several locations for additional phrases used in some customs. . . .

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