[Avodah] piyyutim

[Arie Folger]

REMT wrote:
>      "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.

Since I joined our yekkishe kehilloh, I finally realized that uvekhen is an 
introduction to a piyut, and often mentions the refrain (uvekhein, imru 
lE-lohim, uvekhein ma nora ma'assei E-loheinu, etc.). It now seems to me like 
it makes no sense to say an uvekhein without the piyyut. In fact, I have the 
distinct hunch that the uvekhein was meant to mention the refrain, which 
congregants, who were lacking complete ma'hzorim in the era before the 
invention of the printing press, would respond to the recitation by the 
shatz, who might have been the only one with a complete ma'hzor manuscript.

It is alsio the reason why I find uvekhein ma nora ma'assei E-loheinu (IIRC) 
more correct than uvekhein vayhi biYshurun Melekh,
-- 
Arie Folger
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