Piyyutim - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

"Ha Laḥma ʿAnya" and "Ma Nishtana" from Afghanistan

Passover Haggada (Hallelujah) from Afghanistan

Algeria

Algiers

Kiddush, Passover Haggada and Seder customs from Algiers

Kiddush, Passover Haggada and Song of Songs from Algiers

Constantine

"Shochne bate homer" for Solomon ibn Gabirol

Djelfa

Kiddush and Passover Haggada from Algeria

Bukhara

Samarkand

D'ror Yikra (Jewish religious song)

Hear, ye children

Kiddush on Shabbat eve

Europe: Eastern

Iași

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' (Who Knows One) in translation to Aramaic from Iași

Krakow

Mighty in sovereignty

London

Mighty in sovereignty

Odesa (Ukraine)

Moses Rejoiced: folk piyyut in Hebrew and in Yiddish

There is None Like Our God

Rîbnița (Moldova)

The one who blessed (Mi shebeyrakh)

Soroca (Moldova)

Shoyshanas Yaakov

Europe: Western

Berlin (Germany)

Al ken nekave (prayers for the high holy days)

And by your servants the prophets (from 'Merciful Father')

And with a great shofar he will blow (prayers for the high holy days)

Israel is saved by God (prayers for the high holy days)

Kaddish before Musaf (prayers for the high holy days)

Kaddish of the dew and rain prayer (prayers for the high holy days)

Kol Nidre (prayers for the high holy days)

Lʾel orech din (prayers for the high holy days)

O come, let us sing (from Seliḥoth)

The return of the Shatz to the Musaf (prayers for the high holy days)

You lend a hand (prayers for the high holy days)

ˁAlenu le-shabeaḥ (prayers for the high holy days)

Endingen

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

Frankfurt (Germany)

The repetition of the cantor: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Chamol, Od yizkor (Have compassion for Your handiwork, He yet remembers): Yom Kippur Musaf

Untanneh Tokef (let us cede might): Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur musaf

Al Na Tashet ˁAlenu (do not lay upon us): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Anʿim Zemirot (I shall sweeten songs)

Ashamnu (we have sinned): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Asher Eimat'cha (though your awe is upon the lofty angels): Yom Kippur Musaf

Ashrei (Psalm of Praise) and Kaddish: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King)

Barchu, Yotzer Or (Bless the Lord, He who forms light): Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

Be with the double-edged mouths: Yom Kippur Musaf

Blessings of the Shema: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Chatzi Kaddish (Half Kaddish) after the dew and rain prayer

Conclusion and Kaddish after the Hoshaʿana

Dew and rain prayer

For all things: before the Tora reading for a celebration (especially on Simḥat Tora)

For we are as clay: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Ha-neshama Lach, Darch'cha L'ma'anecha, Ta'ale Aruka (the soul is Yours and the body is Yours, for Your sake, it ascends on a long path): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Ha-pote'ach Lanu (He who opens for us): piyyut for the Yotzer Or blessing on Yom Kippur

HaYom Harat Olam (on this day, the world came into being), the utterance of our lips: Rosh Hashana Musaf

Hear our voice: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Kaddish at the end of a prayer service (Mourner's Kaddish): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Kaddish Shalem (Full Kaddish): Rosh Hashana Musaf

Kaddish Titkabal: conclusion of the Yom Kippur Musaf service

Kaddish: End of Minḥa prayer at Yom Kippur

Kaddish: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Kaddish: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Kaddish: Yom Kippur Musaf

Kaddish: Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

Kedusha (Jewish ritual): Yom Kippur Musaf

Kedusha (Jewish ritual): Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

Kol Nidre (prayers for the high holy days) and the opening of Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

May His supplication ascend: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Ochila Laʾel (I pray to You, dear One): Yom Kippur Musaf

Omnam Ken (indeed, it is true)

Open for us the gate: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

Please forgive me: Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

S'lach u-M’chal, Ma Nomar, Ata Yodeʿa (Forgive and pardon; what shall we say? for You know all): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Taking out and returning the Tora scroll: the high holy days

The King: Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

The order of the Temple service: Yom Kippur Musaf

The repetition of the cantor: Neʿilah (closing service of Yom Kippur)

The repetition of the cantor: Rosh Hashana Musaf

The repetition of the cantor: Yom Kippur Musaf

The repetition of the cantor: Yom Kippur Shacharit (morning service)

V'al Kulam Eloha S'lichot, S'lach Lanu, M'chal Lanu, Kaper Lanu (and for all these, O God of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Veyeʾetayu (and all shall come to serve thee): Yom Kippur Musaf

What shall we speak, Eleh Ezkerah: Yom Kippur Musaf

Yearly Kaddish (Yahrzeit kaddish): Kaddish at the conclusion of the Shemini Atzeret

Yigdal Elohim Chai (exalted be the living God): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

Zechor Lanu (remember unto us): Yom Kippur Arvit (evening service)

ˁAlenu le-shabeaḥ: Yom Kippur Musaf

Königshütte (Germany)

Al ken nekave (prayers for the high holy days)

And by your servants the prophets (from 'Merciful Father')

And with a great shofar he will blow (prayers for the high holy days)

Israel is saved by God (prayers for the high holy days)

Kaddish before Musaf (prayers for the high holy days)

Kaddish of the dew and rain prayer (prayers for the high holy days)

Kol Nidre (prayers for the high holy days)

Lʾel orech din (prayers for the high holy days)

O come, let us sing (from Seliḥoth)

The return of the Shatz to the Musaf (prayers for the high holy days)

You lend a hand (prayers for the high holy days)

ˁAlenu le-shabeaḥ (prayers for the high holy days)

Lucerne

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

Zurich (Switzerland)

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

Greece

Aigio

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ

Israel

Thessaloniki

India

Cochin

"Faith of the People" - Piyyut for Passover

About Night of Ruin Day

Alas, Fire Came Down

Alas, Great Lament

Angles Stopped Singing

Blessed Be the Lord

Blessed Be Your Honour (piyyut for Shavuot)

By the Rivers of Babylon

Come My Friend to My Heaven

Do Like They Do

Every Year Lament

Expelled from the House of Pleasures

Fire Shall Burn in My Heart

From God's Mouth

Gates of Flaming Gems

God in the Heavens

God's Voice will Create

Great and Terrible God

Great, Gigantic, Ginormous God

Holy Congregation

How Much Longer Lord

How My Home was Robbed

How the city sits solitary

I am Your Lord (piyyut for Shavuot)

I Heard the Daughter of Zion

I will Thank the Lord Everyday

Israel Captured Me

Israel Shall Sing a Pleasant Song

Keep My Heart Safe

Lifted and High

Mountains shall Melt Like Beeswax (piyyut for Shavuot)

My Lord, My Lord, Why Have You Forsaken Me

My People, Mourn the Destruction of the Temples

My Spirit, My Lord

No One is Like You Our Lord

Open My Mouth to Thank

Our Sins Destroyed the Temple and How Far Cry

Over This Our Heart Aches

Please God

Praise Thy Name

Raise Your Hand My Lord

Remember God for the Sake of Juda and ʾEphraim

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us

Send to the Sick

Shallow Land is Risen

Sing in Organ Voice

Song Anew

Sound of Mourning You Shall Weep

Tan as the Sun (piyyut for Passover)

Thank My Desired Heart

The Fallen Will Rise

The Fifth Month

The Great and Terrible God

The One in the Rock and the Burning Bush

The World Rumbled

This is My Lord

This Night We Weep

Three Times your Holiness (piyyut for Passover)

Tired of Weeping

Tora and Commandments (piyyut for Shavuot)

Tora is this Day

Wake, My Heart Wake

We Need the Lord Everyday

Who is Like You God of Israel

Who Shall I Cry To?

You Shall Console in Exile

Iran

Mashhad

Your eyes shall see the Messiah

Tekab

Piyyut for brit mila

Iraq

Baghdad

'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Baghdad

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Baghdad

Basra

To a king who is a redeemer and a savior

Woman of valor (eishet hayil mi yimza)

Erbil

The opening of the Haggada, Ḥad Gadya and the first verse of the Book of Lamentations

Israel

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Baghdad

Tuz Khurmatu

Shabbat cooking preparations, the frog story and Shabbat songs

ʿAna

Israel

Peqi'in

Piyyutim of the hours after Shabbat

Tiberias

Shabbat and music

Kurdistan

Bukan

Reading and singing in Hebrew

Song for Passover

Israel

'Yaʿarat Devash': piyyut by Rabbi Israel ben Moses Najara

Koy Sanjaq

'Yaʿarat Devash': piyyut by Rabbi Israel ben Moses Najara

Sulaymaniya

'Yaʿarat Devash': piyyut by Rabbi Israel ben Moses Najara

Passover Haggada and guidance in Hebrew and Judeo-Aramaic

Zakho

'Mipi el' piyyut for Simḥat Tora

God conceals himself in the glamour of secrecy

Kol beruey ma'la (all creatures of God above and below)

Night of Huza – a Tishʿa BeʾAv lamentation

Piyyutim (liturgical poems) and a wedding

Sukka and lulav

Libya

Al-Khums

From the songs of Rabbi Frija Zoaretz

Leading a bride to the mikve song

Piyyut for the people of Israel

Piyyutim of brit mila

Garyan

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Arabic from Libya

Leval Yimmot Netzach (Let It Never Fall) - Passover piyyut

Israel

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Arabic from Libya

Leval Yimmot Netzach (Let It Never Fall) - Passover piyyut

Msallata

'Eternal Lord' and 'dwell in houses of clay'

Tripoli

Piyyutim of Simḥat Tora ha-qafot (encirclement)

Piyyutim on Shabbat eve

Songs and Piyyutim

The long kiddush of Passover Seder

Morocco

Agdz

From birth to bar mitzva, liturgical bar mitzva song

Aїt Taguella

Bar Yoḥai Piyyut

In haste we left Egypt

Casablanca

Passover

Erfoud

Piyyutim for Shabbat

Fes

I felt it in my heart

Meknes

Eve of Baqashot song

I Will Sing in Your Glory - Azamer Bishvaḥin (piyyut)

Midelt

Alternating Piyyut: Hebrew-Arabic

Mogador (Essaouira)

'Bibhilu' and Passover Seder

Her father and his relationship with the community's Rabbis

Her father the poet and the family's singing talent

Shabbat Hymns: Eshet Chayil, Azamer Bishvachin, and Bar Yochai

North-East

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Morocco

Tangier

מידלת

Piyyutim for brit mila

Syria

Aleppo

Piyyut for Passover: ʾemunim irkhu sheva

Piyyut when putting tefillin (phylacteries)

Buenos Aires

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Damascus

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Passover Haggada

Israel

Piyyut for Passover: ʾemunim irkhu sheva

Piyyut when putting tefillin (phylacteries)

Nusaybin

Piyyut for Passover: ʾemunim irkhu sheva

Piyyut when putting tefillin (phylacteries)

Tunisia

Ariana

"Return to our Fatherland, sing" (LaMoledet Shuvi Roni) by ʾAsher Mizraḥi

Education and poetry studies

Bizerte

Passover Haggada from Tunisia

The Prayer for Dew

Djerba

Dear Moon by Rabbi Fraji Shawat

Piyyut for Shabbat from Djerba

Gabes

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic and Betzet Yisrael Mimitzrayim in Hebrew

Israel

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Tunis

Mateur

Song of the Sea

Nabeul

"Ki Lo Naʾeh" (To Him it is Proper) from Nabeul

Passover Haggada from Nabeul‎

Tunis

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Tunis

Bar Yoḥai piyyut

Yemen

Al-Arous

Preparing for Shabbat

Al-Ḥada

If I observe the Shabbat

Al-Rawda

"Time for the Gates of Heaven to Open" - piyyut for Rosh Hashana

'Shabbat Menuḥa': in Hebrew and Arabic

Piyyutim for Shabbat

Arhab

Song of the sea

Bab al-Ḥyder

Piyyut for Shabbat by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Piyyut for Shabbat by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi (2)

Dhamar

Even if the gates of the rich are closed (piyyut)

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good (Piyyut for Brith Mila)

Dhi As Sufal

Song of Ascents

Dweḥa

Reading the Zohar

Song of Songs including an intro prayer

Ḥajba

'So I Keep Shabbat'

Ḥawlan

Birkat Hamazon (blessing the food)

Kiddush

Perparing for Shabbat and Havdala

Ibb

ʾIm ninʿalu (Even if the gates of the rich are closed) and Explanation on rhythm

Israel

Song of Ascents

Song of songs for Shabbat

Kaukaban

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

A song to welcome the groom 'Adon Olam, Answer Me in Prayer'

Sanaʽa

Song of the Sea

Shibam

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Yarim

If I observe the Shabbat

ʿAden

Song of songs for Shabbat

The love of David

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