[Avodah] Powerful piyut

Simon Montagu simon.montagu at mail.gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 21:27:05 PDT 2019


On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:54 PM Zev Sero via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
wrote:
>  From the Sefaradi machzor for the first day of Rosh Hashana:
> https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/Song/Pages/Song.aspx?SongID=298#2,20,508,69
>
> It's powerful stuff. Worth reading even if it's not in our machzor.  The
> author, Yitzchak ibn Mar Shaul, was a talmid of Dunash ben Labrat, and
> the teacher of Yonah ibn Janach.

Powerful indeed, one of the high points of the RH liturgy. By the way, the
London S&P mahzor and the Keter Shem Tov, both attribute it to R. Yehuda
Halevi.


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