יְהַלְלֽוּךָ | Yehallelukha, an adapted German translation for Hallel by Lisa Tarlau (1909)

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Date: 2025-04-25

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Excerpt: This adapted translation by Lisa Tarlau of Yehallelukha ("May all Your creations praise You") can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald's anthology of Jewish women's prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1909), page 169. . . .

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Source (Hebrew)	Adaptation (German)	Translation of German (English)
יְהַלְלֽוּךָ יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ (על) כָּל־מַעֲשֶֽׂיךָ, וַחֲסִידֶֽיךָ צַדִּיקִים עוֹשֵׂי רְצוֹנֶֽךָ, וְכָל־עַמְּךָ בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל,	Es preisen Deine Werke Dich, o Gott, Und Deinen Namen rühmen alle Frommen, Und Deine Heiligkeit wird froh bekannt.	Your works praise You, O God, and Your name is praised by all the pious, and Your holiness is joyfully known.
	Denn Freude ist es, Ewiger, Dir zu dienen, Und Dich erkennen ist uns reinstes Glück Und Deine Macht bewundern ist uns Wonne, Und wie die Mutter hört des Kindes Stammeln, Das sinnlos klingt, ein Nichts dem fremden Ohr, Und das doch Liebe ist und Liebe meint Und danken will für nie vergoltne Liebe,	For joy is it, Eternal One, to serve You, And to recognize You is our purest happiness And to admire Your power is our delight, And as the mother hears the child’s stammering, That sounds senseless, a nothing to the foreign ear, And yet that is love and means love And wants to give thanks for love that is never forgotten,
בְּרִנָּה יוֹדוּ וִיבָרְכוּ, וִישַׁבְּחוּ וִיפָאֲרוּ, וִירוֹמְמוּ וְיַעֲרִֽיצוּ, וְיַקְדִּֽישׁוּ וְיַמְלִֽיכוּ אֶת שִׁמְךָ מַלְכֵּֽנוּ. כִּי לְךָ טוֹב לְהוֹדוֹת, וּלְשִׁמְךָ נָאֶה לְזַמֵּר, כִּי מֵעוֹלָם וְעַד עוֹלָם אַתָּה אֵל. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, מֶֽלֶךְ מְהֻלָּל בַּתִּשְׁבָּחוֹת:	So nimm in Gnaden unsre Lobgesänge, Und huldvoll unsre Dankeslieder auf	So receive our songs of praise with grace, And graciously too our songs of thanksgiving
	Und lass vertrauen uns zu jeder Zeit, Dass, was auch uns und unsrem Volke droht, Du, unser starker Helfer in der Not, Uns schützen wirst in alle Ewigkeit.	And let us trust at all times, That whatever threatens us and our people, You, our strong helper in trouble, will protect us for all eternity.

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This adapted translation by Lisa Tarlau of Yehallelukha (“May all Your creations praise You”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (second revised edition 1909), page 169.

In the Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer (1992), Macy Nulman notes that Yehallelukha is first referenced in Pesachim 118a as the “Birkhat ha-Shir”. He continues, “The Amora’im are divided as to whether [the prayer] Nishmat is also called Birkat Hashir, and thus both Yehalellukha and Nishmat are said at the Seder on Passover. Yehallelukha and the prayer Yishtabaḥ are similar in phraseology, and just as Yishtabaḥ concludes the recital of Pesuqei Dezimrah, so Yehallelukha follows the Hallel psalms.”

The earliest liturgical text of Yehallelukha we know of is found in the Maḥzor Vitry, Laws of Pesaḥ, 97:11. (Please correct us if you know an earlier attestation.) As Macy Nulman notes, there are many variations of the text itself. The text provided here is from the Hallel service in the nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l of the ḤaBaD movement.

The transcription of the German provided machine-readable text for machine translations by DeepL, which we then edited for accuracy and clarity. We welcome any/all corrections, improvements, and additional transcriptions and translations of this work’s contents. –Aharon Varady

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Hallel (Lisa Tarlau, Beruria, 1909) p. 169

 

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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  Name: Lise Tarlau
  Bio: Lise Tarlau (also known as L'Ysaye/Isaye/Ysaye/Ysale, Lisa, Lize, Elizabeth, Luise, and Louise Tarleau; 1879-1952), was a writer born to a prominent Viennese Bohemian Jewish family, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch and Laura Lachmann. In an essay published in 1906, "The Religious Problem," she expressed enthusiasm for Zionism and a deep sympathy for East European, Yiddish speaking Jewry, praising them for having retained their own distinctive cultural identity and their own language. This posture was accompanied by harsh criticism of Western European Jewish cultural assimilation, writing that they have “lived as parasites on the creative possibilities of the dreams of beauty of other peoples” (as quoted in Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away, 2003). Before emigrating to the United States in 1908, nearly two dozen prayers she wrote were published in Beruria (1907), an anthology of teḥinot in German compiled by her sister's husband Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald. A decade later in the US, Houghton Mifflin Company and Riverside Press published The Inn of Disenchantment (1917), a collection of her prose and several short stories. Tarlau's fiction also appeared in major magazines of the day, including The Nation (105:2725, September 20, 1917), The Atlantic Monthly (in 1919), and Harper's Magazine. In 1924, her short story "Loutré" was awarded second place in Harper's first ever short story contest. During World War II, she wrote a number of scripts for radio and film and worked as a translator for the US military. Several of her works were included in The Fireside Book of Romance (ed. C. Edward Wagenknecht, 1948). She died on October 9, 1952 in Kew Gardens, Queens, Long Island, New York.
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