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

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

Europe: Western

Endingen

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

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

God, Remember What We Had

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

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)

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

Song for Passover

Sulaymaniya

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

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

Meknes

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

North-East

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Morocco

Syria

Buenos Aires

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Damascus

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Passover Haggada

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

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

Yemen

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

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)

Dweḥa

Reading the Zohar

Song of Songs including an intro prayer

Ḥajba

'So I Keep Shabbat'

Ḥawlan

Birkat Hamazon (blessing the food)

Kiddush

Ibb

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

Israel

Song of songs for Shabbat

Kaukaban

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Sanaʽa

Song of the Sea

Shibam

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

ʿAden

Song of songs for Shabbat

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