[Avodah] piyyutim

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, November 28, 2007 3:17 am, Arie Folger wrote:
: Absolutely, We do, as do other yeckische minjonim. In fact, in EY,
: there is alittle revival going on.

(Shouldn't that be "jeckische"? The "y" and "sch" are a tarta
desasrei, no? <g>)

:> Even in shemonei esrei there is a consensus which piyyutim are
:> skipped. In fact Artscroll puts them in an appendix.
:> Anyone have any idea how this came about?

: partly it is the result of popularity, probably induced by tunes and
: by active participation.

: However, it is also partly a result of content.

I would remove the "however" -- I would guess one is almost always
caused by the other. Most of the piyutim which get tunes and therefore
more participation got those tunes because the content spoke to
someone and he found a tune. (Which then made it "usual" to sing, so
someone else found a different tune, etc...)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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