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- Title
הסילוק במעמד יום הכיפורים בפייטנות הספרדית: גילוי חדש ומשמעותו
- Authors
אריאלזינדר
- Abstract
All liturgical poets (Payytanim) of medieval Spain wrote large compilations of poems (Qedushtaot), to be performed during the service of the Day of Atonement. Over the years these elaborate poetic constructions fell apart, as editors of prayer books chose what to include. Sometimes these editors also shortened poems or changed their liturgical function. Modern scholarship seeks to re-assemble the original compilations and strives for a better understanding of these poems in their original context. The present article contributes to this effort in the form of a full and corrected edition of the long poem which ended the Qedushta written by Solomon ibn Gabirol for the morning service of the Day of Atonement. This poem, belonging to the genre of the Siluq, is made up of seven sections and more than 160 lines and is presented here based on several sources, with a full commentary. The edition of the poem presented here includes many corrections to previous publications, and a whole section, previously unknown. A further discovery follows this first one in the form of a part of the Siluq for Yom Kippur most probably written by Ibn Gabirol’s eminent predecessor, Yosef ibn Avitur. Here we do not possess a full version of the poem, but even the partial version is an important discovery, since this Siluq has remained completely unknown and unmentioned in both ancient prayerbooks and modern scholarship. Alongside these textual discoveries, the present article addresses one key poetic feature of these Siluqim, namely, their highly formal structure. This formal setting seems surprising, given that the Siluq has usually been depicted as a freeverse form, verging on prose and dedicated to long narrative and rhetorical addresses. And yet, thanks to Shulamit Elizur’s recent discussion of the ancient Siluq, we know that there have always been poets who formalized the Siluq in various ways. Therefore Ibn Avitur and Ibn Gabirol did not innovate so much as they enhanced an existent, if marginal, poetic tradition.
- Publication
Tarbiz, 2019, Vol 86, Issue 2/3, p385
- ISSN
0334-3650
- Publication type
Article