[Avodah] piyyutim

[Elazar M. Teitz]

RArie Folger wrote:

<FYI, the reason we say UT has little to do with a certain Rav Amnon who may or may not have lived in Mainz and may or may not have had the slightest connection with the author of that piyut. The reason is that UT is peti'hah liqdushah on RH.>

And RZev Sero added:

<Indeed, that's why "uvechen lecho taaleh kedusha" comes *before* UT.
It has long seemed to me, therefore, that one should stand as for kedusha, just as one does for the keter/naaritzcha with which we usually introduce the kedusha of musaf; and that the person who opens and closes the aron should remain up there until after kedusha, instead of retreating to his place as soon as he's closed it.  But I haven't seen this done.  People do stand for UT, but not with feet together, and don't refrain from wandering about or whispering a word to their kids, etc., to an extent that they would refrain during kedusha.>

     "Uv'chein" introduces not only UT. It is the standard prelue to k'dusha whenever piyut is said in chazaras hashatz.  It is usually followed by a very long piyut, which is omitted by many piyut-saying shuls. Like UT, it does not deal with k'dusha until its very end. Until then, it discusses the inyana d'yoma: weights and measures on Sh'kalim, Hashem's remembering on Zachor, the mysteries of parah adumah on Parah, etc., and Hashem as dispensing mishpat on RH.  Only its very last phrase introduces k'dusha, and for those who say it, that phrase replaces N'kadesh or Nakdishach (which should not be omitted by those who skip this piyut); therefore, only that phrase should require standing as one does for k'dusha.

EMT