Showing Results 1 - 10 of 16
Public Access
Text
This poem expresses the idea that since today is the day when seats are set up [for judgment], since the Jewish people has declared the New Month, therefore we need to run to God and prostrate…
Contributor:
Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Blessed are you, Bar Yohai,
you were anointed
by your brethren with the oil of joy:
Bar Yohai,
with the oil of a sacred share
you were anointed through holy measure,
sanctity’s bud you wore…
Contributor:
Simeon Ibn Lavi
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire
(Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
16th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Come, faithful community, let us sing
To Him who dwells on high, your creator, O Jacob.
Come, let us sing.
O garden dweller, raise song and hymns:
Young and old, all together…
Contributor:
Joseph Shalom Gallego
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
Early 17th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Rejoice, be glad, confraternity Talmud Torah,
You crown of beauty, tiara of splendor.
O Holy One of Israel enthroned on Israel’s praises,
With musical voices we praise Your name.
With…
Contributor:
Joseph Shalom Gallego
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
Early 17th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
I shall begin by praising the True One
who in six days created the whole entire world
and on the seventh day He ceased work and rested.
Give thanks unto the Lord for He is good, for His…
Contributor:
Cornelis de Bruyn, Anonymous
Date:
1702
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I shall recount the love of God, the faithful God,
I shall study his words, and prostrate myself to the formidable God, the Lord,
I shall walk in his paths, to the central land, my palace.
Happy…
Contributor:
Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1719/20
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The love of the Sabbath is the pith of my praise.
“Remember and Keep” provides the rule,
Preparing my way for bridegroom and bride,
For Intellect and Soul, my celestial companions.
…
Contributor:
Shalem Shabazi
Places:
Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State
(Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I wish to praise God
who is great in praises,
who created for man
all kinds of flowers,
and they all are singular
in their colors and scents
and of all the best ones
was the musk flower.
Above all…
Contributor:
Anonymous
Date:
1702
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A nighttime song of praise I have
To sing before my Lord,
And in the day His help is at my side.
All my life, my soul has longed
To see the courts
Of God, to read the Torah.
And so I come betimes…
Contributor:
Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
With God’s help I set myself the aim,
And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same.
The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known,
Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…
Contributor:
Royzl bas Joseph Levi
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1586