[Avodah] Piyyutim of HaKalir Regarding the Creation of the Earth (and eilu v'eilu)

[Zvi Lampel]

I wrote:

Tosafos (RH 27a) poses a contradiction in the piyyutim of R. Elazar
> HaKalir. He says that in the Geshem piyyut recited on Shemini Atzeres, R.
> Kalir states that the world was created in Tishrei aligning with Rebbi
> Eliezer), whereas in his piyyut for Pesach he states that the world was
> created in Nissan (aligning with Rebbi Yehoshua).
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...and asked:

>  I have not been able to find any piyyut in our machzorim, Geshem on
> Shemini Atzeres or otherwise, that says anything about the world being
> created in Tishrei!
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There is an "added piyyut" that some say before "Geshem,"  which goes
through the months of the year beginning with the phrase "Yiftach eretz
l'yesha." Some machzorim have illustrations of each month's zodiac sign at
each month's paragraph. It is indeed authored by R. Elazar HaKalir. For the
month of Cheshbon (which of course follows Tishrei) it asks for rain
"lest [the earth] dries up like the 'Bul' (=Cheshbon) Mabul. Placing the
drying up of the Mabul in Cheshbon, identifying it with what the Torah
calls "the second month of the year," aligns with the opinion that the
world was created the month before, namely Tishrei.

Compliments of my son's friend, Matisyahu Adams.

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> Zvi Lampel
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