An interlude: Mid-summer essay (featured in 2024 / 5784):
Piyyutim for the early winter Sabbaths, Book of Bereshit (Genesis) — featured in 2024 / 5785:
26. Guf Yotzer for Shabbat Bereshit: El Nissa
27. Kiddush Yeraḥim for the Month of Marḥeshvan, by Pinḥas Hakkohen
28. Magen (first piyyut) of Kedushta for Lekh Lekha by Yannai
30. Ahava for Shabbat Toldot (found in two Eastern Ashkenazic manuscripts): Sefatai Eftor
31. Shiv‘ata for Seder Vayyar Hashem — one of the triennial sedarim within our Parashat Vayyetze
32. Ofan, Me’ora, and Ahava for Vayyeshev, by Shemuel Hashelishi
33. Guf Yotzer for Shabbat Ḥanukka: Odkha Ki Anafta
34. Zulat for Vayyiggash by Pinḥas Hakkohen: Aḥ Bena‘alekhem
Piyyutim for early summer Sabbaths — featured in 2024 / 5784
7. Piyyutim for Parashat Naso
7a. Ahava for Naso — Asher Yaḥdav
7b. Ahava for Naso — Se’u Kappekhem (published here first time from a manuscript!)
8. Me’ora for Parashat Beha‘alotkha — Asher Yatzar
9. Ahava for Parashat Shelaḥ — Shesh Me’ot
Piyyutim of the Sabbaths of Tishri — featured in 2024 / 5785:
23. Guf Yotzer for Shabbat Shuva (Eastern Ashkenaz: Menaḥem bar Makhir): Ashaḥer
24. Seliḥa Piyyut for Yom Kippur that falls on Shabbat: Saré Kodesh
25. Piyyutim for Shabbat Ḥol Hammo‘ed Sukkot:
25a. Zulat for Shabbat Ḥol Hammo‘ed Sukkot (Western Ashkenaz: Meir bar Isaac): Ezkera
25b. Hosha‘na Piyyut for Shabbat of Sukkot (Eastern Ashkenaz: Menaḥem bar Makhir): Kehosha‘ta Adam
Piyyutim for the period of the Arba‘ Parashiyyot, featured in 2025 / 5785
42. Shabbat Shekalim: Piyyut 6 from the Killiri’s Kedushta
43. Shabbat Zakhor: Piyyut 4 from the Killiri’s Kedushta
44. Shabbat Purim: Piyyutim for Birkat Hammazon
44a. From the Geniza
44b. By Gabriel Wasserman
45. Shabbat Para: Piyyut 3 from the Killiri’s Kedushta
46. Shabbat Haḥodesh: Piyyut 6 from the Killiri’s Kedushta
47. Vayyikra: Fragments of Piyyutim 1–3 from Yannai’s Kedushta
Piyyutim of the late summer: Sabbaths of Mourning and Consolation — featured in 2024 / 5784
13. Zulat for First Sabbath after 17 Tammuz: El El Ḥai Arannen
14. Zulat for Second Sabbath after 17 Tammuz: Arayot Hiddiḥu
15. Zulat for Sabbath before 9 Av: Elohim Be’oznenu
16. Piyyutim for Shabbat Naḥamu / Va’etḥannan:
16a. Ahava for Va’etḥannan: Shté Pe‘amim
16b. Zulat for Naḥamu: Emet Mashal Haya
17. Ahava for ‘Ekev: Yedid ‘Elyon
18. Beginning of Killirian Kedushta for Third Sabbath of Consolation: Em So‘eret
19. Zulat for Fourth Sabbath of Consolation (by the Rokeaḥ): Ani Rishon
20. Beginning of Killirian Kedushta for Fifth Sabbath of Consolation: Em Habbanim
21. Fragments of Killirian Kedushta for Fifth Sabbath of Consolation
22. Zulat for Seventh Sabbath of Consolation, by Yosef (ibn Abitur?): Ometz Datotai
Piyyutim for the later winter Sabbaths, first half of the Book of Shemot (Exodus), featured in 2025 / 5785
36. Ofan, Me’ora, and Ahava for Parashat Shemot, by Shemuel Hashelishi
37. Mi Khamokha and Hashem Yimlokh piyyutim for Parashat Va’era, by Shemuel Hashelishi
38. Zulat for Parashat Bo, by Shelomo Suleiman al-Sanajari