[Avodah] Selichos and Kinnos

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 01:59:46PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
> RMB:
>> This is largely an Ashocentric question.

> No, the Kallir and his contemporaries predate the migrations to Ashkenaz  
> and Sefarad (actually there were Jews in Ashkenaz and Sefarad before his  
> time, but the cultures we think of by those names came later).

Still, the byzantine nature of selichos, qinos and piyutim in general
is far more true of those that found their way into minhag Ashkenaz than
those said by Sepharadim.

I don't think a Sepharadi would wonder why piyutim are so complicated
and opaque, and thus I considered the question "Ashkocentric".

GCT!
-Micha

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