תהלים קי״ד | Psalms 114, an adapted German translation for Hallel by Lisa Tarlau (1909)

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Date: 2025-04-24

Last Updated: 2025-04-25

Categories: Hallel for Festivals & Rosh Ḥodesh, Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150), Hallel

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Full Hallel, German translation, Hallelu, Partial Hallel, Psalms 114

Excerpt: This adapted translation of Psalms 114 by Lisa Tarlau 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 163. . . .

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Source (Hebrew)	Adaptation (German)	Translation of German (English)
בְּצֵאת יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמִּצְרָיִם בֵּית יַעֲקֹב מֵעַם לֹעֵז׃ הָיְתָה יְהוּדָה לְקׇדְשׁוֹ יִשְׂרָאֵל מַמְשְׁלוֹתָיו׃	Als Israel aus der Ägypter Land, Als Jakobs Haus aus fremder Knechtschaft zog, Da wurde Juda ihm zum Heiligtum Und Israel sein Reich und sein Besitz.	When Yisrael came out of the land of Egypt, when Yaakov’s house came out of foreign bondage, Yehudah became his sanctuary and Yisrael his kingdom and his possessions.
הַיָּם רָאָה וַיָּנֹס הַיַּרְדֵּן יִסֹּב לְאָחוֹר׃ הֶהָרִים רָקְדוּ כְאֵילִים גְּבָעוֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹאן׃	Das Meer, es floh, der Jordan wich zurück. Wie wilde Widder beugten sich die Berge Und Hügel bebten wie erschreckte Lämmer.	The sea fled, the Jordan receded. Like wild rams the mountains bowed down and the hills shook like frightened lambs.
מַה־לְּךָ הַיָּם כִּי תָנוּס הַיַּרְדֵּן תִּסֹּב לְאָחוֹר׃ הֶהָרִים תִּרְקְדוּ כְאֵילִים גְּבָעוֹת כִּבְנֵי־צֹאן׃	„Was ist dir, Meer, dir, Jordan, wohl gescheh’n? Was fliehet ihr, warum weicht ihr zurück? Was machte, Berge, euch den Widdern gleich? Warum bebt, Hügel, ihr wie junge Lämmer?“	“What’s wrong with you, Sea? [River] Yarden, what happened to you? Why do you flee, why do you retreat? What made you, mountains, behave like rams? Why do you tremble, hills, like young lambs?”
מִלִּפְנֵי אָדוֹן חוּלִי אָרֶץ   מִלִּפְנֵי אֱלוֹהַּ יַעֲקֹב׃	„„An Israel erwies sich Gottes Macht, Vor seinem Antlitz bebt in Scheu die Erde. Was hat Bestand vor Jakobs starkem Gott?!	“Israel was shown God‘s might, The earth trembles in fear before his face. What can stand before Yaakov’s mighty God?
	Er nimmt die Macht den Mächt’gen, den Bedrückten Macht er zum Herrscher über weites Land.	He takes might from the mighty, He makes the oppressed ruler over a vast land.
הַהֹפְכִי הַצּוּר אֲגַם־מָיִם חַלָּמִישׁ לְמַעְיְנוֹ־מָיִם׃	Der Fels wird Teich, der Kiesel wird zum Quell Vor seinem Angesicht. Ja, wir erbeben Und im Erbeben preisen wir den Berrn.““	The rock becomes a pond, the pebble becomes a spring before his face. Yes, we tremble and in our trembling we praise the Lord.”

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This adapted translation of Psalms 114 by Lisa Tarlau 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 163.

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. 163

 

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
  Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
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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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