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זמירות zemirot —⟶ tag: זמירות zemirot Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This is a partial English translation of Al Ahavatekha offered by rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman to accompany a video by Nigunim Ensemble presenting their musical setting of the piyyut on Youtube in 2018. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Avnei Y’qar” is a succint piyyut for Ḥanukkah, traditionally attributed to R. Abraham ibn Ezra, and particularly beloved by the Yemenites. Interestingly, it doesn’t mention the miracle of the oil whatsoever, focusing on the degradation of the land under Greek occupation as well as the Hasmonean victory itself. Included is a poetic acrostic translation into English. The piyyut, Agadelkha, in Hebrew with an English translation. Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, אגדלך Agadelkha, cosmological, קדיש ḳaddish, פיוטים piyyuṭim, רשויות reshuyot, ספר יצירה Sefer Yetsirah, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): A popular piyyut for all occasions by Avraham ibn Ezra. An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. Categories: Tags: 12th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, libi uv'sari, נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai, phonetic acrostic translation, פיוטים piyyuṭim, צמאה נפשי Tsamah Nafshi, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): This translation of Tsam’ah Nafshi was made by Avi Shmidman and Tzvi Novick, and first published by the Az Yashir Moshe Project birkon (2009), p. 56-57. This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Elohim Yisadenu” by a paytan named Avraham (possibly Avraham ibn Ezra) was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). This translation of “Ki Eshmera Shabbat” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). The piyyut and popular shabbat table song, Ki Eshmera Shabbat, in Hebrew with a rhyming translation. This Purim song, popular among the Sephardic and Italki communities of Livorno, can be sung to the melody of “Akh, Zeh Hayom Kiviti.” Like a lot of Italian Purim content, a large portion of it is listing different desserts. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The text of the popular piyyut “Adir Bimlukhah” (a/k/a “Ki lo na’eh”) in Hebrew, with a Latin translation. Categories: Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., acrostic, אדיר במלוכה Adir Bimlukhah, Alphabetic Acrostic, Latin translation, פיוטים piyyuṭim, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): A piyyut and table song for Shabbat from 13th century Ashkenaz. A rhymed translation of Tsur Mishelo, a paralitugical Birkat haMazon. The paralitugical Birkat haMazon Tsur Mishelo, in Hebrew with an English translation. The piyyut, Tsur Mishelo, in Hebrew with an English translation. Categories: Tags: 14th century C.E., 52nd century A.M., paraliturgical birkat hamazon, פיוטים piyyuṭim, צור משלו Tsur Mishelo, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): This somewhat crude Purim song is sung in many variants in the Moroccan and Gibraltar Sephardic communities, often to the tune of the popular Purim hymn “Akh Ze Hayom Kiviti.” Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with an English translation. This is Rev. Newton Mann’s rhymed English translation of Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan’s “Yigdal” as first published in Rabbi Max Landsberg’s Ritual for Jewish Worship (1884), pp. 13-14. Categories: Tags: 15th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., doctrinal, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation, statements of belief, יגדל yigdal, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with a rhyming English translation by Alice Lucas first published in 1894. This is Rev. William Channing Gannett’s rhymed English translation of Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan’s “Yigdal” made at the request of Rabbi Max Landsberg and published in Gannett’s Unity hymns and chorals (1911), pp. 2-3. | ||
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