Piyyut, by Judah ha-Levi

 Blessed are You, O Lord our God, Ruler of the world, who fashions light and creates darkness, who makes peace, and creates all: / Eternal light / [from within the] storehouse of life; / “Light from…

In the language You reminded Your rememberers [Israel], “Remember!”In that very language they remind You, “Please, You remember!”And if they, being human, have violated the covenant, and not…

The king, with justice, sets up the land, He who is high above the whole land.They recognize and acknowledge–all the land, all the world’s inhabitants, who dwell on the land,from the edge of the land…

The youthful love, since times of yore– may it be bound up forever with the couple getting married today!Let them rejoice greatly in their bridal canopy; may [God], the beloved…

On the day when the Messiah, descendant of David, comes to the people which has been oppressed,these signs will be seen; they will be brought out into the universe:Earth and heaven will waste away.The…

Time to rebuke the beast of the forest,to whirl it up in a storm and whirlwind,for it has chewed up the vine out of the forest.So may [God] quarantine it with a storm,by the hand of the ruddy one…