[Avodah] Selichos and Kinnos

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:40:12PM -0400, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
: I'd like to share a question I have twice a year - at Yomim Nora'im and
: Tishah B'Av - and maybe someone can help me with it. Why did the writers of
: Selichos and Kinnos do so in such difficult to understand language? ...

This is largely an Ashocentric question. The IE's piyutim are quite
transparent.

What I think the point was was to write something with as many layers
of meaning as possible. Rather than something to be understood and sung,
providing the ecstatic experience, it is to be studied and restudied and
to be understood differently each time it is said.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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