A piyyut or piyut (plural piyyutim or piyutim, Hebrew: פִּיּוּטִים / פיוטים, פִּיּוּט / פיוט pronounced [piˈjut, pijuˈtim]; from Greek ποιητής poiētḗs...

Authors of piyyut are known as paytanim (singular: paytan). Piyyut is Jewish liturgical poetry, in Hebrew or occasionally Aramaic. The earliest authors...

Piyyut is Jewish liturgical poetry, in Hebrew or occasionally Aramaic, composed from the fifth century CE through the end of the thirteenth century CE...

Elohekhem (Hebrew: אלהיכם) is a genre of piyyut, which arose among Jews in 12th-century Germany, to be inserted in the Qedusha of the Musaf prayer. Several...

Ohila la-El is a medieval piyyut of unknown authorship, recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur during Mussaf. The piyyut comprises four unrhymed lines...

Babylonian traditions in certain respects, in particular in the prominence of piyyut (see below). In a broad sense, it falls within the "Sephardi" rather than...

Ana BeKoach (Hebrew: אנא בכח‎, We beg you! With your strength) is a piyyut (liturgical poem) recited by Jewish communities[which?] at the end of Parshat...

"Yom le-yabbashah" (Hebrew: יום ליבשה) is a piyyut (liturgical poem) composed by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi for the seventh day of Passover, focusing mainly on...

One") is a piyyut recited during Birkat Hamazon for the meal of a berit milah ceremony. The piyyut is composed by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn. The piyyut was accepted...

Vehi Sheamda (Hebrew: וְהִיא שֶׁעָמְדָה) is a Jewish piyyut (liturgical poem) in the Haggadah of Passover Seder that mention's God's promise of ending...

Menucha veSimcha is a piyyut which Ashkenazic Jews traditionally sing on Sabbath eve. The piyyut is acrostically signed "MoSHE", and some attribute it...

Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...

(Hebrew: אני הוא השואל, literally 'I am the one who asks') is a Selicha piyyut for Yom Kippur; in most rites, but not all, it is (or was) recited in the...

עַלַם, romanized: yāh ribbôn ʿalam, lit. 'Yah, eternal lord') is an Aramaic piyyut by the 16th-century payytan Israel ben Moses Najara, first published in...

borrowed for these, while in others there are special choral compositions. A piyyut is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, chanted, or...

works of Jewish ethics Kabbalah Hasidic works Siddur and Jewish liturgy Piyyut (Classical Jewish poetry) The basis of halakha and tradition is the Torah...

authorship, which originated in the classical period of piyyut (6th-8th century). This piyyut was accepted in all the communities of Ashkenaz and Poland...

Magen Avot is a genre of piyyut designed to be inserted into the blessing Berakha Aḥat Me‘en Sheva‘ in the Jewish liturgy for Friday evening, right before...

"Shene Zetim" (Hebrew: שני זיתים) is a piyyut (liturgical poem) by Rabbi Solomon Ibn Gabirol of the Me'orah type, intended to be recited as part of the...

Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...

Biblical poetry, the poetry found in the poetic books of the Hebrew Bible Piyyut, religious Jewish liturgical poetry in Hebrew or Aramaic Medieval Hebrew...

clings to the gills of large fish and kills them. In the eleventh-century piyyut (religious poem), Akdamut, recited on Shavuot (Pentecost), it is envisioned...

Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...

Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...

Unsanneh Tokef   (ונתנה תקף) ("Let us speak of the awesomeness ") is a piyyut that has been a part of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy in some...

Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...

Israeli graphic artist and epigraphist. Ada Yardeni was the daughter of piyyut scholar Menahem Zulay. She contributed to the deciphering of the Dead Sea...

Sometimes referred to as the "father of piyyut," his poetry marks the beginning of the Classical Period of piyyut that ranged from the fifth-eighth centuries...

Beginning in the classical period, the singular form kippur began to be used in piyyut, for example in Unetanneh Tokef, alongside the standard plural form kippurim...

Nefesh (Hebrew: יְדִיד נֶפֶש, lit. 'beloved of the soul') is the title of a piyyut and zemer. It is usually sung on Shabbat. Some sing it between Minchah (afternoon...