En Kelohenu

En Kelohenu ( Hebrew אֱין כֱּאלֹהֱינוּ 'There is no one like our God' ) is a Jewish prayer .

description

The En Kolehenu in MI Landau's The Israelites' Ancient Prayers of 1839 (Page 192)

En Kelohenu is a lyrical prayer that praises the uniqueness of God. It is recited at the end of the service on Shabbat and on holidays, for example as a Musaf prayer for Shabbat. It is also sometimes sung at the end of the chacharit . In the Ashkenazi tradition in the Diaspora, it is recited at the end of Shabbat or at the end of Musaf. In Israel and in the Sephardic tradition, it is performed on weekdays and daily. In some other regional traditions, it is used elsewhere in the liturgy. But it seems to be known worldwide.

In many synagogues it is a chant. In some Orthodox synagogues, however, it is only prayed quietly and is not an integral part of the worship service. The background to the prayer is that every single one of its 20 sentences counts as a single blessing. Jews are reminded to pray at least 100 blessings daily ( Talmud , Menachot 43b). On weekdays the eighteen supplication consists of 19 blessings and is said three times. It consists of a total of 57 blessings. The remaining 43 blessings are prayed in other parts of the daily service.

On the rest (Shabbat) and feast days, the Amida consists of only seven blessings. En Kelohenu is designed to ensure that everyone recites at least 100 blessings a day.

Four different terms that are used in prayer relate to God and thus also to God's name:

1. Elohim (אלהים) - God
2. Adon (אדון) - Master
3. Melekh (מלך) - King
4. Moshia '(מושיע) - Savior

Melody for En Kelohenu from the second half of the 18th century (based on Abraham Zvi Idelsohn's Hebrew-Oriental Treasure of Melodies, Volume VII ( The traditional songs of the South German Jews ), page 120)

These divine names are listed in the same order in the En Kelohenu prayer as they are listed in the Torah .

The Kabbalists see references to the four different divine qualities in the use of the four names of God.

This prayer appears in the liturgy as early as 875 in the Siddur Rav Amram . Today's edition appeared in Machsor Vitry by Simcha ben Shmuel from Vitry (d. 1105; Hebrew שִׂמְחָה בֵּן שְׁמוּאֵל מִ וויטרי), a French Talmudist of the 11th and 12th centuries and a student of Rashi , then a century later with Maimonides .

There are different melodies for En Kelohenu . The setting by Julius Freudenthal in 1841 was best known in the Ashkenazi region .

reception

In works by the post-hardcore band “ mewithoutYou ” from Philadelphia there are words from “En Kelohenu”, for example in the song “Four Fires” from the studio album Ten Stories ( Aaron Weiss ).

Text and translation

אֵין כֵּאלֹהֵינוּ אֵין כַּאדוֹנֵנוּ אֵין כְּמַלְכֵּנוּ אֵין כְּמוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ מִי כֵאלֹהֵינוּ מִי כַאדוֹנֵנוּ מִי כְמַלְכֵּנוּ מִי כְמוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ נוֹדֶה לֵאלֹהֵינוּ נוֹדֶה לַאדוֹנֵנוּ נוֹדֶה לְמַלְכֵּנוּ נוֹדֶה לְמוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ אַתָּה הוּא אֱלֹהֵינוּ אַתָּה הוּא אֲדוֹנֵנוּ אַתָּה הוּא מַלְכֵּנוּ אַתָּה הוּא מוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ אַתָּה הוּא שֶׁהִקְטִירוּ אֲבוֹתֵינוּ לְפָנֶיךָ אֶת קְטֹרֶת הַסַּמִּים:

“Nothing is like our God, nothing like our Lord, nothing like our King, nothing like our helper. Who is like our God, who is like our Lord, who is like our King, who is like our helper! We give thanks to our God, thank our Lord, thank our King, thank our helper. You, you are our god, you our lord, you our king, you our helper. It is you, in front of whom our fathers let the specialty incense evaporate. "

Source: Samson Raphael Hirsch : Sidur tefilot Yisrael, Israels Gebete, (סדור תפלות ישראל).

literature

• Ismar Elbogen: Jewish Liturgy: A comprehensive history. Jewish Publication Society / Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Philadelphia / New York 1993, ISBN 0-8276-0445-9 .
• Abraham Ezra Millgram: Jewish Worship. Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1971, OCLC 300592 .
• Ronald L Eisenberg: The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions. Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 2004, ISBN 0-8276-0760-1 .
• Joseph Telushkin: Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History. William Morrow and Company, New York 1991, OCLC 22703384 .
• Kerry M. Olitzky, Marc Lee Raphael: An encyclopedia of American synagogue ritual. Greenwood Press, Westport 2000, ISBN 0-313-30814-4 .
• Macy Nulman: The encyclopedia of Jewish prayer: Ashkenazic and Sephardic rites. Jason Aronson, Northvale 1993, OCLC 26720618 .
• Adin-Even Israel (Steinsaltz): A guide to Jewish prayer. Schocken Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8052-4174-4 .
• Ze'ev Greenwald: Shaarei halachah: a summary of laws for Jewish living. Feldheim Publications, New York 2000, ISBN 1-58330-434-7 .
• Bernhard Salomon Jacobson: The Sabbath service: an exposition and analysis of its structure, contents, language and ideas. "Sinai" Publications, Tel Aviv 1981, OCLC 8247881 .
• Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, Sheah Brander: The complete ArtScroll Siddur: weekday, Sabbath, festival: nusach Ashkenaz. Mesorah Publications, Brooklyn 1987, OCLC 471780387 .
• Alexander Marx, Amram ben Sheshna: Investigations on the Siddur of the Gaon R [av] Amram [Hashalem] (עמרם בן ששנה). M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1908, OCLC 27391588 .
• Joseph Herm Hertz: The authorized daily prayer book. Bloch Publications, New York 1955, OCLC 13326700 .
• Abraham Zwi Idelsohn: Jewish Liturgy and its Development , Schocken Books, New York 1967, OCLC 174509 .

Web links

• En Kelohenu , sung by Chasan Brian Shamash
• Audio file En Kelohenu (regular, MP3).
• Audio file En Kelohenu (slow, MP3).
• En Kelohenu ( Memento of October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Text.
• En Kelohenu on sites.google.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (Ed.): Siddur schma kolenu. (Translation by Joseph Scheuer, text editing by Albert Richter, editing and concept by Edouard Selig). Verlag Morascha, Basel 2011, p. 422 [En Kelohenu], OCLC 884483697 .
2. ^ Bernhard Salomon Jacobson: The Sabbath service. P. 317.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Macy Nulman: The encyclopedia of Jewish prayer. P. 71 f.
4. ^ Ismar Elbogen: Jewish Liturgy. P. 95.
5. ^ Bernhard Salomon Jacobson: The Sabbath service. P. 319.
6. ^ Bernhard Salomon Jacobson: The Sabbath service. P. 320.
7. ↑ Abraham Ezra Millgram: Jewish Worship. P. 494.
8. ^ Bernhard Salomon Jacobson: The Sabbath service. Pp. 318-319.
9. ^ Abraham Zwi Idelsohn: Jewish Liturgy and its Development. P. 117.
10. ↑ Jonathan L. Friedmann: Synagogue Song - An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Customs , McFarland & Company, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-7061-7 , p. 143
11. ↑ Samson Raphael Hirsch : Sidur tefilot Yisrael, Israels Gebete, (סדור תפלות ישראל). I. Kauffmann, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 377 f. [אין כאלֹהינוּ], OCLC 18389019 1895  - Internet Archive .