• A piyyuṭ (plural piyyuṭim, Hebrew: פִּיּוּטִים / פיוטים, פִּיּוּט / פיוט pronounced [piˈjut, pijuˈtim]; from Koinē Greek: ποιητής, romanized: poiētḗs,...
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    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...
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  • Authors of piyyut are known as paytanim (singular: paytan). Piyyut is Jewish liturgical poetry, in Hebrew or occasionally Aramaic. The earliest authors...
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  • 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...
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  • you! With your strength) is a medieval Jewish piyyut (liturgical poem) called by its incipit. This piyyut, the acronym of which is said to be a 42-letter...
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  • Piyyut is Jewish liturgical poetry, in Hebrew or occasionally Aramaic, composed from the fifth century CE through the end of the thirteenth century CE...
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  • 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...
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  • paragraph of the Seven-Faceted Blessing, in Jewish liturgy Magen Avot (piyyut), inserted into that blessing The title of various books The responsa of...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Menucha veSimcha is a piyyut which Ashkenazic Jews traditionally sing on Sabbath eve. The piyyut is acrostically signed "MoSHE", and some attribute it...
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  • "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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    works of Jewish ethics Kabbalah Hasidic works Siddur and Jewish liturgy Piyyut (Classical Jewish poetry) The basis of halakha and tradition is the Torah...
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  • Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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  • Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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  • 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...
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  • Biblical poetry, the poetry found in the poetic books of the Hebrew Bible Piyyut, religious Jewish liturgical poetry in Hebrew or Aramaic Medieval Hebrew...
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    Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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    Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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    authorship, which originated in the classical period of piyyut (6th-8th century). This piyyut was accepted in all the communities of Ashkenaz and Poland...
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  • Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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  • "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...
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  • Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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    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...
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  • Jewish and Israeli music Religious Contemporary Piyyut Zemirot Nigun Pizmonim Baqashot Secular Klezmer Sephardic Mizrahi Mainstream and jazz Classical...
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    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...
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    (8v) piyyut Recorded by Boston Camerata Barekhu (3v) prayer Recorded by Profeti della Quinta (2009), Boston Camerata Ein keloheinu (8v) piyyut Elohim...
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